Jennifer "Jeni" O’Donnell, NCPS

Jennifer "Jeni" O’Donnell is a psychotherapeutic counsellor and coach based in the United Kingdom. She offers a warm, supportive manner and aims to create a calm conversational space where people can talk about what matters most. Jeni brings three years of experience to her work and holds the NCPS credential.

Jeni helps people with stress and anxiety and with low mood and depression. She also supports work on relationships, bereavement and loss, parenting strains, and issues tied to self-esteem. Practical concerns such as sleep problems, anger and coping with life changes are part of her caseload.

Her style is client-centred and pluralistic. That means she focuses on each person’s needs and draws on different ways of working rather than using just one method. She mixes talking, practical tools and reflection so sessions are relevant to daily life.

Jeni uses approaches that include attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness, along with psychodynamic perspectives and solution-focused methods. She adapts these to the person in front of her and to the problems they bring.

People come to Jeni for a range of concerns that also include addiction-related struggles, intimacy issues, ADHD, caregiver stress and ageing and geriatric issues. Her aim is to help people find clearer direction, better coping and steadier emotional responses.

To begin, she asks people to describe their goals and what they hope to change, then chooses practical steps and reflective work to suit those aims. Sessions are paced to match each person’s comfort and progress.

Approaches that shape online sessions

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships affect current connections and emotional responses; it can help when relationship patterns, abandonment fears or caregiving strains cause distress. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) emphasises practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, useful for anxiety, sleep problems and low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional balance.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

The practical benefits of online work can include fitting sessions into a busy week and avoiding travel time, which helps when juggling caregiving, work or medical appointments. Some people find shorter check-ins easier when they need a quick adjustment between commitments. The therapist’s biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the current options before booking to ensure the arrangement fits your schedule and needs.