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Jennifer Mcpherson (Norman), BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 25 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Relationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesDepression
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Jennifer Mcpherson (Norman) supports people facing relationship problems, family conflict, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps with depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, anger, self‑esteem, and coping with life changes. Jennifer brings 25 years of experience and works from the belief that each person knows their own story best.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then helps people identify practical steps that fit their lives.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters now and on building small changes that add up over time. Jennifer uses a mix of well‑established methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment‑based ideas. She adapts the way she works to match each person’s needs rather than applying a single model to everyone.
Clients can expect a calm and respectful space to talk through painful or confusing experiences. The work often includes noticing patterns, practicing new ways of responding, and building clearer goals for relationships and wellbeing. Jennifer is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She offers sessions in English and accepts people from outside the United Kingdom. Appointments are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
How Jennifer’s approaches translate to online therapy
Jennifer draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment‑based ideas to guide her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take values-based action. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and motivation problems. Attachment‑based approaches look at how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and reactions, and help people create safer, more trusting ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Jennifer will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then tailor methods that fit their situation. She combines listening with practical exercises so the work matches what someone wants to change and how they prefer to work.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling flexible. Video lets you use facial expressions and visual cues, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text works for shorter check-ins or when people find typing easier. These options help therapy fit around work, family life or travel while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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