Jennifer "Jen" Somerville, BACP

Jennifer "Jen" Somerville offers support for people facing addictions, grief, parenting challenges, family conflict and coping with life changes. She presents a calm, non-judgemental manner and aims to provide a space where clients can talk things through and work toward clearer choices. Jen is named in the first person here to keep introductions direct and human.

Jen has been a qualified counsellor since 2018 and holds BACP registration with that credential noted as BACP. She works in an integrative way, which means person-centred practice sits at the core of her work. That core approach focuses on listening, reflecting and helping people make sense of their experience.

Alongside person-centred listening, Jen draws on other therapeutic approaches when they fit the situation. She tailors methods to what each person brings, rather than using a single fixed style for everyone. Sessions can be short term to deal with a specific issue, or longer term for deeper exploration.

Her clinical experience includes supporting people through bereavement, addiction and housing instability, as well as difficulties linked to pregnancy and childbirth, chronic illness and caregiving stress. She has worked with students and young people as well as adults, and has an additional qualification for working with young people.

Sessions are available in person, online or by telephone, and scheduling is arranged around therapist availability. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then books a time to suit them.

How Jen adapts therapeutic methods for online work

Jen primarily works from a person-centred base, which focuses on listening, reflection and helping people make sense of their experience. This approach helps with feelings of isolation, guilt and life transitions by prioritising the client's perspective and pacing sessions to what they need.

She also uses an integrative approach, bringing in other evidence-based techniques when helpful to the person's goals. Those additional techniques are chosen to suit issues such as grief, addiction recovery or coping with chronic illness, and are explained in plain terms as part of the work.

Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Jen will talk with each person about their needs, preferences and goals and agree a plan together. That collaborative process helps decide which methods to try and whether short or longer term work feels right.

If you want online sessions, check the current session options when you book so you know what formats are offered. The practical benefits of online work include fitting sessions around family or study timetables, avoiding travel time and making it easier to keep appointments during busy weeks. Telephone sessions can be a shorter check-in for a quick review, while online video allows visual connection for deeper conversations.