HOW CAN I HELP?

I'm Jessica. I help people through some of the hardest moments of becoming a parent.

Specialised counselling, supervision and training.

I'm a BACP-registered counsellor based in Norwich, working with clients both locally and online across the UK and Europe. My specialism is the perinatal period: the time from preconception through pregnancy, birth and the first years of parenthood, and the losses, challenges and traumas that can happen along the way.

I came to this work through both clinical training and my own lived experiences of loss and disability.

Becoming a parent, or trying to, can be one of the most destabilising periods: it is literally life-changing. When things go differently to how we hoped or expected, we often experience a kind of grief that not many people talk about - grieving the loss of the life we’d imaged for ourselves.

Alongside my counselling practice, I supervise other counsellors and psychotherapists, as well as professionals who work in health and social care services, and I deliver training to NHS trusts, charities and counselling services.

HOW I WORK

Warm but direct. Always led by you.

My approach is integrative, which means I draw on a range of therapeutic models rather than working within a single school. But the most essential thread that runs through all of my work is that it is relational. Therapy works because of the quality of the relationship between us, not because of a technique I was trained in.

In practice, you can expect me to be warm but direct. I will not avoid hard subjects. My goal isn’t to push you out of your comfort zone, but I may encourage you to explore its edges. I work at the pace you set, and we can keep talking about what’s useful and what’s not as we work together.

For perinatal work specifically, I draw on training in trauma-informed practice, somatic approaches and my subject-specific knowledge about the perinatal period and SEND parents. I take continuing professional development seriously and am constantly engaged in researching, reading and learning.

More about Jessica

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Qualifications & training.

A specialist field deserves specialist training. These are the qualifications, accreditations and memberships behind my practice.

Core counselling qualifications

● BACP Registered Member (MBACP), Member No. 381432

● Diploma in Humanistic & Integrative Counselling, Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Perinatal specialist training includes:

● Foundation for Infant Loss

● Perinatal Mood Disorders, Tavistock Education & Training, NHS Trust

● Perinatal Loss and Grief; Perinatal Mood Disorders, Seleni Institute

● Somatic Trauma Therapy training with Babette Rothschild

● Foundation in Infertility Counselling, British Infertility Counselling Association

● Working Therapeutically with Baby Loss, Sands

Academic background

● BA in Religion, Smith College USA

● MA in African Studies, School for Oriental and African Studies

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Published and featured work.

My article on working therapeutically with pregnancy after loss was published in BACP's Therapy Today journal in 2025. I also speak and write regularly on pregnancy loss, SEND parent carer wellbeing and different aspects of working as a counsellor.

Read my Therapy Today article →

COMMON QUESTIONS

Good to know.

A few of the things people most often want to know before getting in touch. Can't see your question? A short call is the best way to find out if we're a good fit.

Yes. I am a BACP Registered Member, which means I have met the standards of training, supervision and ethical practice required by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. You can verify my registration on the BACP register.
I started seeing clients in 2012 and completed my training in 2015.
Though my training was integrative, I mainly work as a person-centred counsellor. This means that my main aim is to offer you support as a fellow human being rather than any kind of expert. That said, I do offer gentle observations or interventions. But the relational thread of the work is what’s most important.
Yes, absolutely! Whilst many of my clients are women, I work with anyone affected by the perinatal journey, or the experience of being a SEND parent, including men, non-binary people and same-sex partners.