Jacintha Canary, BACP

Jacintha Canary is a counsellor with 25 years of experience in mental health and wellbeing. She trained in person-centred counselling and works from the United Kingdom. Her background includes teaching and community leadership, and she brings a personal, grounded perspective to sessions.

She helps people facing stress and anxiety, grief, depression and life transitions. Her experience covers trauma and abuse, family dynamics, domestic violence, abandonment and adoption and foster care concerns. She also supports people dealing with career strain, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue and illness-related challenges such as cancer.

Her style is gentle and collaborative. She does not give direct answers but explores what matters with each person. She uses body mapping and sensation-focused tools from a QSL framework alongside person-centred listening to help people notice feelings and patterns.

Jacintha also draws on mindfulness, solution-focused techniques and Internal Family Systems ideas when they suit a person's goals. She combines practical tools with reflective conversation to build coping skills and clearer next steps. Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans and she accepts international clients.

Her BACP membership is part of her professional identity. To begin, people use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to availability. Costs vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

Approaches you might use together online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist creates a supportive space and helps people find their own answers by reflecting what they say and notice about feelings and body sensations. This approach is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem and coping with life transitions.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. It helps people ground themselves, notice thoughts and calm anxious or overwhelming states. It often pairs well with work on grief, stress and compassion fatigue.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and current difficulties and then recommend methods to try. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted as therapy unfolds to suit how a person responds.

Confirm the session formats before you book because the biography does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and reduce travel time. They can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand it, or let someone choose an option that does not need video if that helps them engage. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists commonly offer these flexible arrangements, and the emphasis is on making therapy practical for everyday life.