About Jenny
Why I trained as a therapist
I became a therapist because I understand how challenging life can be. Our experiences shape who we are, but sometimes it can be difficult to accept what’s happened or know how to move forward. I believe having a space where you are truly heard and accepted supports healing and growth.
As a therapist, I believe that you are the expert of your own experience. I will support you to build self-acceptance, have compassion for yourself and understand yourself more fully.
Life before counselling
Having the opportunity to sit alongside others and support them with the challenges they are facing is incredibly rewarding and a great privilege.
Before training as a counsellor, my roles have included:
- facilitating community mental health support and wellbeing groups
- delivering infant feeding support & leading baby massage classes
- supporting parents with the emotional roller-coaster of parenthood
- telephone support via a national helpline.
Training & experience
Whilst completing my Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, I supported people through a wide range of issues in a general practice. I later moved on to a placement at Ashgate Hospice in Chesterfield, staying on as a volunteer counsellor once qualified.
At the hospice, I worked with both those who were living with a terminal diagnosis and with those who had been bereaved.
Since qualifying as a counsellor in 2022, I have worked for the charity Sheffield Mind and in private practice. I predominantly work face-to-face but also offer online video sessions and telephone counselling.
For me, animals are therapeutic - here's my cat, enjoying the sun
A walk in the woods to clear the mind & remind me of the joy to be found in simple things
"I find it a real privilege to sit alongside and support people navigating bereavement, those living with a terminal diagnosis, and those impacted by someone facing end of life."
Jenny Jones Counselling, Sheffield
A focus on grief & loss
My personal experience of both anticipatory grief and bereavement has given me a painful but powerful insight into the complexities of death, dying and loss. This experience, my training, and the many hours I have spent with clients working through grief have also taught me that grief is often interlinked with relationship issues, sense of self and identity, and feelings of destabilisation.
Emotions can be confusing, sometimes contradicting, and often overwhelming. Making sense of how you’re feeling and what has happened can be the key to finding a way forward that is right for you.
Grief isn’t only about death. We face loss in so many other parts of life: changing relationships; infertility; chronic health conditions; changes in employment or housing; financial security; dreams and opportunities.
Whatever loss, change or challenge you are facing, my aim is for you to reach a place of self-acceptance, healing and ongoing growth that gives you a sense of peace in the present and hope for the future.
Qualifications & Training
Core training
The Academy: S.P.A.C.E. / 2018 - 2022
Professional Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling online and via telephone
Safeguarding adults
National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
Accredited Registrant
Membership number: NCS22-02979
Additional training
The grieving brain
Bereavement and understanding loss
Talking about death & dying
Shame & guilt
Working with neurodiversity
Working therapeutically with ADHD
Working with Mother-Daughter Relationships
Trauma informed practice
Healing intergenerational trauma
Schema therapy & trauma
Existential perspectives in therapy
An introduction to compassion-focused therapy
Using writing therapeutically
Personalising psychotherapy: accommodating preferences
Setting goals in therapy
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