Jess Johnson Counselling

30/08/2026

We are incredibly proud to share this. ❤️

Rooftops Therapy & Wellbeing Rooms has officially signed the Ask for Angela National Venue Pledge.

Creating Rooftops was never just about providing rooms for therapy and wellbeing. We wanted to create a place where people feel safe, welcomed, listened to and supported from the moment they walk through our doors.

By signing the pledge, Rooftops is making a commitment to provide a safe and welcoming space and to offer support if somebody needs it, for any reason.

If you are ever at or near Rooftops and feel unsafe, uncomfortable, vulnerable or simply need some help, you can Ask for Angela.

You don’t need to explain everything. You don’t need to justify why you need support. Just ask. We’re here to help. ❤️

This is another really important step in making Rooftops the kind of community space we always intended it to be… a safe place to land.

📍 Rooftops Therapy & Wellbeing Rooms, Battle

30/08/2026

Who’s at Rooftops this week 🌿

Just look at how much is happening under one roof this week.

Rooftops brings together independent practitioners from across therapy, mental health, holistic wellbeing, body-based therapies, creative wellbeing and beauty & self-care.

This week at Rooftops you can access:

🌿 Holistic Integrative Therapy
🌿 Integrative Counselling
🌿 Humanistic Counselling
🌿 Trauma-Informed Support
🌿 Neurodiversity-Informed Support
🌿 Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy
🌿 Reiki
🌿 Indian Head Massage
🌿 Swedish Massage
🌿 Feldenkrais
🌿 Homeopathy
🌿 Massage
🌿 Reflexology
🌿 Aromatherapy
🌿 Cupping
🌿 Nutritional Support
🌿 Guitar & Songwriting
🌿 Music-Based Wellbeing
🌿 Brows, Lashes & Waxing

Whether you need somewhere safe to talk, support with your emotional wellbeing, a more holistic or body-based approach, a creative outlet, or simply some time dedicated to you, Rooftops offers different ways to find the support that feels right for you.

One space. So many different ways to support your wellbeing.

Rooftops Therapy & Wellbeing Rooms
Battle, East Sussex
A Place to Exhale.

30/08/2026

25/08/2026

Children & Young People’s Counselling | 6 Free Sessions

Sometimes, children and young people carry far more than we realise.

Anxiety. Family difficulties. Friendship problems. Bullying. Trauma. Loss. Neurodiversity. School pressures. Low self-esteem. Big changes at home. Feelings they don’t yet have the words to explain.

And sometimes, the adults around them know they need some extra support, but the cost of accessing that support becomes another barrier.

That is exactly why I offer 6 completely free counselling sessions to every new child or young person who comes to work with me.

Not discounted. Not dependent on benefits. No requirement for a family to prove that they are struggling financially.

Just six sessions where a child or young person can begin building a relationship with someone safe, feel heard without judgement, and have space that belongs entirely to them.

Early emotional support matters. We don’t have to wait until a young person reaches crisis point before we take their feelings seriously.

My work with children and young people is gentle, trauma-informed and led by the individual in front of me. Depending on their age and needs, sessions might include talking, creativity, play, art, grounding and regulation work, or simply having somewhere they know they can come and be themselves.

I know that six sessions cannot fix everything. But they can be a beginning.

They can give a young person somewhere to land.

They can help them understand that their feelings matter.

And sometimes, being given support at the right time can make an enormous difference.

Making therapy accessible has always been incredibly important to me, and as long as I am able to continue offering these six free sessions, I will.

Jess Johnson Counselling
Children, Young People & Adults
www.jessjohnsoncounselling.com

23/08/2026

Jess Johnson Counselling | Holistic Integrative Therapy at Rooftops

Therapy doesn’t have to be about sitting in a room and being asked to talk about things before you’re ready.

Jess offers Holistic Integrative Therapy, bringing together different therapeutic approaches to create support around the individual person… their experiences, their needs and the way they naturally communicate and connect.

Working with adults, children and young people, Jess offers trauma-informed support across a wide range of emotional and life experiences, with particular experience supporting those affected by trauma, childhood sexual abuse, domestic abuse, anxiety, PTSD, neurodiversity, infertility, pregnancy after loss and postnatal emotional wellbeing.

For children and young people, therapy can look very different to traditional talking therapy. Sessions may incorporate creative activities, art, play and sand work, providing different ways to explore emotions and experiences when finding the words feels difficult.

For adults too, there is no expectation to arrive knowing exactly what to say. Therapy can simply begin with what is happening for you now.

Jess’s approach is grounded in the belief that people are more than a diagnosis or a collection of symptoms. Therapy is about understanding the whole person, recognising the ways we have learned to survive, exploring what we need now and creating a relationship where people can feel genuinely heard and accepted.

Accessibility is at the heart of Jess Johnson Counselling, with a commitment to making therapeutic support accessible, affordable and inclusive.

Jess offers up to six counselling sessions completely free of charge, helping to remove some of the financial barriers that can prevent people from accessing support when they need it.

Sometimes therapy is about processing the past. Sometimes it’s about getting through the present. Sometimes it’s simply having somewhere safe to land while you work out what comes next.

You can find Jess at Rooftops this week:

🌿 Monday – All Day
🌿 Wednesday – All Day
🌿 Thursday – All Day

📍 Rooftops Therapy & Wellbeing Rooms, Battle
🌿 www.rooftopstherapy.co.uk

Adults. Children. Young people. Trauma-informed support.

All under one Rooftop.

22/08/2026

With Belles of the Ball today running the organisation we run from our family home. Free for low income families and individuals.

Please send a direct message to Belles to arrange collection ♥️

20/08/2026

Whatever was inside that envelope today 💚

GCSE Results Day can bring up so many emotions for our young people. Excitement, pride, relief, worry, disappointment, fear about what comes next, or sometimes a huge mixture of everything.

For some, today will be a day of celebrating. For others, those results might not be what they hoped for, and that can feel really bloody hard when you’ve spent so long working towards them.

But please remember, those grades only tell us how you did in a set of exams.

They don’t tell us who you are.

They don’t show the anxiety you pushed through, the difficult mornings you still got yourself into school, the things you might have been dealing with at home, the challenges nobody else knew about, or just how much it took for you to get to today.

There is so much more to you than what was written on that piece of paper.

And if today hasn’t gone the way you hoped, it’s okay to be disappointed. You don’t have to immediately look on the bright side or work out your whole future today.

There are so many different ways forward and sometimes our plans change completely along the way.

Whatever was inside that envelope today, please be proud of how far you’ve come.

You are still you.
Still worthy.
Still capable.
And your future is SO much bigger than your GCSE results. 💚

Jess Johnson Counselling
Holistic Integrative & Trauma Informed Therapy
Supporting children, young people & adults

15/08/2026

⚠️ A really important note about last night’s emergency alert.

At around 7pm last night, phones across England and Wales received a Government emergency alert warning of the serious risk of wildfires during the extreme heat.

There was very little public warning that this alert was coming.

And there is another safety issue we need to talk about.

If you are experiencing domestic abuse and have a secret or emergency phone hidden from your partner, tonight’s alert may have caused that phone to make a loud noise or vibrate — even if you normally keep it on silent.

If that has happened to you, or you are worried that your phone has been discovered, please prioritise your immediate safety.

If you are in immediate danger, call 999.

If you cannot speak when you call 999 from a mobile, listen to the operator and, when prompted, press 55 so they know it is a genuine emergency.

If you have a concealed phone, the Government specifically acknowledges this risk and provides instructions for switching emergency alerts off:

iPhone:
Settings → Notifications → scroll to the bottom → switch off Severe Alerts and Extreme Alerts.

Android:
Search Settings for “Emergency Alerts” → switch off Severe Alerts and Extreme Alerts.

Please only make changes to a device when it is safe for you to do so.

Domestic abuse support

National Domestic Abuse Helpline / Refuge
0808 2000 247 — free, confidential and available 24/7.

Southall Black Sisters
020 8571 0800 — specialist support for Black and minoritised women experiencing domestic and sexual abuse, including issues involving immigration, forced marriage and so-called honour-based abuse.

Karma Nirvana
0800 5999 247 — specialist national support for people experiencing honour-based abuse and forced marriage.

Galop
0800 999 5428 — specialist support for LGBT+ people experiencing abuse and violence.

Men’s Advice Line
0808 801 0327 — specialist domestic abuse support for men.

SignHealth Domestic Abuse Service
Text ONLY: 07800 003421 — specialist support for Deaf people experiencing domestic or sexual abuse, with BSL support also available.

And if the big national helplines are overwhelmed, please remember that you can also search for your local domestic abuse service or IDVA service. You do not have to wait until you are ready to leave a relationship to ask for help or advice.

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