Chemical dependency includes problematic use of alcohol or drugs. This can include illegal/street drugs or abuse of prescription medications.
Behavioural addictions , sometimes called ‘process addictions’ include gambling, the internet, chatroom addiction, love, sex, pornography, self-harm, eating or limiting food intake, anger and shopping.
Addiction can impact negatively in all areas of your life. Including your ability to function on a daily basis.
This can damage :
As a highly skilled counsellor and psychotherapist, I have worked at a senior level in some of the UK’s premier rehabilitation centres . Familiar with the latest neuroscience of addiction, I specialise in addiction treatment, recovery, relapse prevention and aftercare. I have multiple years of experience working with individuals, couples and families. I support them in using counselling and therapy to move forward and build the lives they have always hoped for.
I have full membership of the Society for the Study of Addiction https://www.addiction-ssa.org This is one of the ways I stay up to date with the latest research findings and newest, most effective ways of working.
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I can help you whether your issues are drug, alcohol or behavioural addictions,
There is a requirement to be abstinent from chemical substances when commencing therapy and I can signpost you or your loved one to a detoxification clinic if needed. My role would then commence once detoxed to work on relapse prevention and other deep-seated emotional issues.
I am a qualified Counsellor and Psychotherapist, trained in London, educated to Masters Degree level, and a professionally registered member of the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy).
Originally, I worked in Behavioural Healthcare Science and Organisational Psychology as a Public Health Academic, lecturing and researching at Newcastle University Medical School and on the University of Durham MBA Programme. As a result, I have authored numerous academic papers on changing health behaviours, and have several high ranking publications in these fields of study.
I have worked across several organisations including the NHS, Prison Services, Community Drug and Alcohol Services, charitable and private agencies, and private rehab clinics.
I have also been a key member of Heal for Life over the past five years which helps clients heal from trauma and abuse. More recently, I have been featured on TV’s ‘The Woman Show’ live as an invited expert, answering questions and giving support on sexual issues and sex addiction.
Currently I do sessional work in London City & Greater London, Tynemouth (NE30), Newcastle upon Tyne, and Online.
Also, I have specialist expertise in:
I have worked as a successful academic in the field of behaviour change with several high ranked publications. Practising within a humanistic and psychodynamic perspective, I am trained in group therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy and one-to-one therapy. I also have a specialist interest in behaviour change, addiction and trauma.
Educated to Masters Degree level, and I hold individual membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
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Firstly to thank you for all the incredible help over the last four weeks. I’ve learnt so much about myself and my behaviours in my sessions with you, and I leave with a lot of learnings and tools.
Thanks again Jackie, I will never be grateful enough to you,for your insight and support.
Just wanted to say sorry I didn’t get to see you before you left. It was a real pleasure working with you. You have a great way of working with clients
Hopefully our paths will cross sometime best of luck in the future.
Wishing you a very Happy New year and thank you for being a major influence in reigniting my recovery , I really mean that.
I was thinking about my time in therapy this morning and how strong and resolute I’ve become all with your help! II can’t believe how far I’ve come !
Thank you so much, I couldn’t have done this without you.
Thank you so very much for all of your hard work. You are an incredible therapist and an inspirational, exceptional and influential person.
Jackie, you were a massive part of my early recovery and a source of inspiration to this day.
I saw Jackie under sufferance, as penance perhaps for a failed suicide attempt. Years of alcohol and medication abuse, chronic insomnia, anxiety and numerous other challenges from the psychotherapist handbook. I spent a year with her, once a week being guided to understand the events that made for such a chaotic and dysfunctional life. Once that was done, Jackie armed me with the tools to step forward and recognise the signs which would have me step back. I owe her more than perhaps modesty would have her realise. An outstanding counsellor who always knew when I was dodging the issue.
After many years, 30 plus in fact of crippling addiction, an addiction that escalated to many life-threatening experiences, I finally surrendered to the powerlessness of my situation and reached out for help.
I was incredibly fortunate to find Jackie. Jackie became my focal therapist in residential rehabilitation.
I spent many months under the care of a person who worked tirelessly to unravel my troubled mind.
To say that I am eternally grateful doesn’t begin to do justice to someone who literally kick-started the process of saving my own life.
I can’t recommend Jackie highly enough.
Four years of blissful sobriety later, I am living my best life now, and whilst it hasn’t always been easy, we do recover.
Please just ask for help as I did and you could also begin a fantastic new path with Jackie’s guidance
I highly recommend Jackie in many ways as a professional, and also as a person- while dedicated to her work with deep seriousness her vibrant personality and, mindfully used by Jackie only when appropriate, wonderful sense humour makes Jackie a joy to be around