Meet our team

As our counselling and wellbeing lead, Jane heads up the Your Wellbeing team, working with individuals, couples, and corporate clients.

Jane’s varied counselling experience includes working within several not-for-profit organisations, as well as in private practice. She has supported many individuals with mild-to-severe mental health diagnoses. She has also helped survivors of sexual abuse, assault, and other traumas.

Jane previously worked in the field of speech and language with people who have autism, ADHD, and learning disabilities. She gained extensive training and experience working with neurodivergence in the therapeutic space.

She is warm and compassionate, and is able to provide online and telephone counselling, as well as meet clients face to face.

Counselling specialisms

Jane specialises in counselling clients who have experienced childhood and adult trauma, and abuse. This might include sexual, emotional or physical abuse, and narcissistic abuse (which may be present in family, romantic and work relationships). Jane also supports survivors of domestic abuse.

Where appropriate, Jane can draw on interventions to process trauma, such as EMDR and the Rewind Trauma Technique, to alleviate flashbacks and traumatic memory triggers. 

Jane is also experienced in couples therapy. Whether couples want to re-romanticise their relationship, or separate amicably, Jane offers Imago relationship counselling to help romantic partners improve communication, build connection and move forward.

Jane is also a qualified clinical supervisor and offers integrative supervision to trainee and qualified counsellors. For qualified therapists, Jane can support you on your BACP accreditation journey.

Supporting our staff through Covid-19

Jane supported the clinicians at Your Healthcare CIC through the Covid-19 pandemic. This has given her intensive experience of working with depression, anxiety, burnout, compassion fatigue, chronic stress, trauma, and all forms of grief.

This period also formed the basis of a research paper. We were able to show that our approach to supporting our key workers during Covid-19 was effective. Staff were demonstrably better able to cope, compared with their peers. That experience now informs our services at Your Wellbeing, under Jane’s leadership.

Qualifications and counselling approach

Jane is committed to her development as a counsellor and therapist. She holds multiple qualifications, and has extensive training in a range of mental health issues and techniques. Jane also holds BACP accreditation which ‘demonstrates to clients that you have achieved high standards of knowledge, experience and development.’

She takes an integrative approach to counselling, drawing from a variety of techniques, including psychodynamic, humanistic, and behavioural therapies. 

She champions a relational approach to the therapeutic relationship, building a non-judgemental and compassionate relationship with her clients.

View Jane’s profile on the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapy (BACP) website.

View Jane’s profile on the Counselling Directory.

Counselling specialisms

Sheila’s person-centred, evidence-based approach is tailored to each individual’s unique needs, often involving collaboration with families and carers. Her work includes assessments and intervention for individuals who are struggling with anxiety, depression, trauma, complex PTSD, attachment disorder or a combination of these.

Qualifications and counselling approach

Sheila graduated from the University of Surrey with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and subsequently gained an MSc in Health Psychology at UCL and then completed her Clinical Psychology Doctorate at the University of Surrey (in 2004). 

Her priority is to work in a way that best suits the individual’s needs, using an attachment-based approach. She holds neuroaffirmative values and works in a trauma–informed way, drawing from different theoretical psychological models (CBT, Psychodynamic, Narrative, Compassion-Focussed ACT).

She regularly attends and plays a key role in the British Psychological Society’s South Thames Special Interest (Intellectual Disabilities) Faculty Group, including coordinating and chairing meetings. Sheila also contributed to the development of the BPS Guidance document for Working with Parents with Learning Disabilities (2011). She has been involved in selection, teaching, and supervision of trainee Clinical Psychologists for several Clinical Psychology Doctoral Courses throughout her career.