Jacintha Canary

Jacintha Canary is a counsellor with more than 25 years in mental health and wellbeing. She trained in person-centred counselling and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling as well as teaching and sports qualifications. Jacintha is based in the United Kingdom and brings a personal, lived perspective to her work as someone who has been through therapy herself.

She puts the person at the centre of sessions and does not hand out ready-made answers. Instead she listens and helps people notice what matters to them. Her background includes work around anxiety, domestic abuse, trauma, abandonment and adapting to life changes such as moving country or changing work environments.

Jacintha also uses practices that focus on body awareness and self-exploration, following a framework called QSL (Quantum Social Learning) and HEAL (Human Experience Augmenting Language). These approaches involve body mapping and listening to sensations to help integrate past or present experiences and trauma.

Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and caregiving stress, career difficulties, eating and body image, depression and compassion fatigue. She works with cultural and faith differences and supports people from diverse spiritual backgrounds.

Jacintha offers a calm, collaborative style. She aims to walk alongside people while they make changes, helping them build resilience, forgiveness and self-acceptance. Sessions are conversational and rooted in the client’s pace and priorities.

How Jacintha’s approaches translate to online counselling

Jacintha combines person-centred work with mindfulness and trauma-focused ideas so online sessions feel grounded and practical. Person-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client, helping people find their own direction during change or loss. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention to breath and body sensations to reduce worry and improve emotional regulation. Trauma-Focused Therapy uses careful, paced steps to help people notice and integrate difficult memories or sensations without being overwhelmed.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will talk with each person about what they need, their goals and how they prefer to work, then agree a way forward together. That collaborative decision can change over time as needs evolve.

Please confirm the session formats available before booking, as the biography does not list explicit formats. Online work can help fit counselling into busy routines, reduce travel, and make it easier to keep regular appointments. It can be useful for focused check-ins, mindfulness exercises, longer therapeutic conversations and for people who have relocated or are living abroad.