Janet Kwegan

Janet Kwegan is a counsellor with more than 10 years' experience working across health and community settings in the United Kingdom. She has worked in the NHS, a women’s centre, a hospice, a bereavement agency, a perinatal mental health charity, a cancer support centre and a men’s counselling service. Janet uses this background to help people facing difficult life moments and transitions.

Her style is grounded and direct. She describes her approach as existential and non-judgemental. Sessions look at how someone experiences relationships, identity, values and choices. The aim is to help people make sense of distress and to support change over time.

Janet draws on a range of approaches when needed, including cognitive behavioural therapy, client-centred work and attachment-informed ideas. She adapts methods to suit the person rather than sticking rigidly to one model. This means practical strategies for managing mood or anxiety alongside deeper work on relationships and meaning.

She has particular experience with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, stress, anxiety and addiction. Other areas she helps with include parenting strain, self-esteem, intimacy and body image, and challenges linked to chronic illness or caregiving. Intellectual disability is listed among her areas of work.

Janet works in English and Yoruba and has experience supporting people from diverse backgrounds. She holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to the usual process.

How Janet's approaches translate to online work

Janet uses a mix of methods that suit both practical problems and deeper relational work. Attachment-based ideas focus on how early bonds shape current relationships and are useful for trust and intimacy issues. Client-centred work emphasises listening and building understanding, helping people feel heard and able to explore their values. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers clear, practical techniques for managing symptoms like anxiety, low mood or sleep problems.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy itself. Janet works collaboratively to find what fits a person's needs and goals. She discusses different options in early sessions and adjusts the plan as progress and preferences become clearer.

Session formats are not specified here, so please confirm available options when booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, for example by reducing travel time or allowing a shorter check-in when schedules are tight. It can also make it simpler to continue work when someone is travelling or has caregiving responsibilities. Many people find that combining practical CBT tasks with reflective, attachment-focused conversation works well in remote sessions, and she will help tailor that mix to each person.