Jacqueline Green Counselling

Jacqueline Green Counselling I am a young person and adult counsellor. BSc, PGDip, MBACP. I am a registered member of the BACP.

I offer online and phone counselling sessions throughout the UK and additionally, face to face within East Lothian. All emotions, challenges, life experiences and difficulties are welcome in counselling. Some of my speciality areas include; adolescents, childhood trauma, attachment/ relationships, grief/bereavement, suicidal ideation, pre/postnatal difficulties and estrangement. As a person-centre

d counsellor, I adapt my practice depending on a person's unique needs to ensure that you get what you need out of counselling. I will offer you understanding, empathy and complete acceptance. I hope that this helps you to feel comfortable, trusted and safe, especially because talking through some of our most difficult feelings can be scary. By validating your emotions and experiences, and sometimes offering gentle challenge to gain insight and awareness, we can work together, at your own pace, to process and heal your difficulties and help you move forward in healthier ways, in a way that's more true to who you really are.

As someone who lives intentionally to the seasons, I couldn’t let the transition into summer go by without a reminder on...
11/06/2026

As someone who lives intentionally to the seasons, I couldn’t let the transition into summer go by without a reminder on this.

Autumn is a nervous system regulator for many. Soft light, pumpkin smells, quiet nights and cozy blankets. Our senses take everything in.
Winter brings hibernation, more permission to pause and be in stillness, reflection and quiet.
Spring brings new life. New energy. Coming back out into the world and slowly adapting to more light, a hope and growth and new beginnings.
And then there’s summer. A world of possibilities filled with high vibrations. But the cultural expectations can be some of the hardest expectations to hold. Don’t feel like you have to live up to these. Ask yourself what summer means to you.

For me, it means, more opportunities to be social, so I choose carefully which ones I want to lean into. It means pizza at the beach and later nights. It means campfires. It means appreciation. I look up and see a world full of opportunity and I often get enough from observing it and not necessarily being involved in it all the time. I still find time to restore and recharge….
Later nights mean slower mornings or afternoon naps. I drink more water and eat more fresh fruit. It’s more movement in the fresh air. It’s clean showers and bedsheets after suncream and heat over stimulation. It’s choosing what my energy needs and pulling back from others like choosing to drink a dr pepper in my sunny garden listening to the birds and not being at the local town festival when my social battery is low.

Don’t let society tell you what your summer looks like.
Look after your needs. You don’t need to wait until October to restore.

J x

Some thoughts this Monday ❤️J
08/06/2026

Some thoughts this Monday ❤️J

I think sometimes social media can make it look like “showing up for yourself” has to be done perfectly.
Like we should ...
14/05/2026

I think sometimes social media can make it look like “showing up for yourself” has to be done perfectly.
Like we should always be journaling, regulating, reflecting, exercising, healing, growing, resting, communicating beautifully, drinking enough water… all whilst somehow functioning as normal humans too 🫠

But real life usually looks a bit messier than that.

Some weeks I do these things often.
Some weeks only once or twice.
Some weeks not at all.

And I think that’s the point.
A lot of the things that support us aren’t meant to become another pressure or standard we fail to meet. They’re just small ways we can gently respond to ourselves when we have the capacity, awareness, energy, or space to do so.

Not perfection.
Not optimisation.
Just small choices, repeated where we can.

Life can be hard. Circumstances change. Energy changes. We don’t always have full control over that.
But sometimes we can offer ourselves a little softness within it.

And honestly….. I think “enough of the time” is often enough. I mean, one of my favourite sayings I live by is…
‘we can’t do everything all of the time’. 🤍

*right well I’m away to drink water because THAT has been hard for me this week 🫠

And it’s only Tuesday 🤪🥲….I’m sharing this because so many people think growth means getting everything “right”. That ot...
28/04/2026

And it’s only Tuesday 🤪🥲

….I’m sharing this because so many people think growth means getting everything “right”.
That other people have it all together…. Like therapists or elders or the person you saw holding it together incredibly well yesterday.

But it doesn’t mean that.

Growth is continuous.
It often looks like noticing your patterns sooner.
It looks like taking accountability without tearing yourself down.
It looks like making a mess of things sometimes, then meeting yourself with compassion and adjusting course.

We are not here to be perfect.
We are here to be aware, honest, and willing to begin again.

I’m only human. As you are.
And I’m on this journey too.

So I’m going to make myself a cuppa, give myself a little moment to feel all the feels, talk to myself kindly, maybe give myself a little hug, and move forwards this week with self kindness, understanding and encouragement 🤍

I hope you can do the same J x

So many people come to therapy believing they are the problem. That something in them needs fixing.But most of the time,...
13/04/2026

So many people come to therapy believing they are the problem. That something in them needs fixing.

But most of the time, what we’re looking at are responses that made sense at some point.
Patterns your body learned to help you cope, manage, get through. And in fact, these are highly intelligent responses from our bodies and it means your body is doing what it’s meant to - keep you aware - to survive!

The work I do isn’t about getting rid of symptoms. It’s not about helping you learn more coping strategies so you can ‘tolerate’ more pain. It’s not about ‘fixing’ you.

It’s about getting curious about what shaped them in the first place. This is crucial to helping you move forward. Understanding quite often that it didn’t start with you.
With more understanding of the systems at play, you can build capacity to choose differently.
Helping you to resist, where appropriate, and cope with compassion when needed.

Because when you understand your responses as adaptations that your body makes - not flaws - something shifts.

The shame lessens as you realise they are not a personal failing.
There’s less judgement and more compassion.
More choice.

This is where the blend of talking therapy and somatic work matters.

Not just making sense of your story, but noticing how it’s still held in your body. The tension, the bracing, the habits that keep things in place.

And gently, at your pace, creating space for something different.

You’re not the problem.

But your experiences deserve your attention.

J x

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