Jackie Garratt, BACP

Jackie Garratt is a professionally qualified counsellor and life coach who helps people rebuild wellbeing and find new direction after difficult experiences. She works from a person-centred base, combining warmth, calmness and a down-to-earth approach with practical therapeutic techniques to support clients in making meaningful change.

Jackie offers flexible, tailored sessions that draw on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and Solution Focused Brief Therapy alongside her main person-centred approach. Her additional life coaching qualification supports work on mindset, goals and limiting self-beliefs, offering clients practical tools as well as therapeutic exploration.

She has completed post-qualifying training in specialist counselling for young people and training to support survivors of sexual violence. Before qualifying as a counsellor, Jackie worked extensively in community roles including youth and support work, foster caring and coordinating a women’s project offering support to survivors of domestic abuse, sexual assault and childhood trauma. This background informs her understanding of how early experiences affect development and later relationships, and it supports her work with parents facing specific parenting challenges.

Jackie has experience helping people with a wide range of issues, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family difficulties, grief, addictions, ADHD and chronic health concerns. She is creative and adaptable in her methods, tailoring each session to what will best suit the individual. Clients can expect a compassionate, non-judgmental atmosphere where they can explore their feelings, understand patterns of thinking and behaviour, and develop their own pathways forward.