- Years in practice
- 25
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Afrikaans
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Jacintha
Jacintha Canary is a counsellor with 25 years' experience supporting people through major life changes. She trained in person-centred counselling and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling along with a BACP registration. She brings a practical, steady presence and draws on a range of tools to help people find balance in hectic lives.
She describes her role as walking alongside clients rather than giving ready-made answers. Sessions focus on listening, exploring what matters, and helping people notice how their body and feelings relate.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with grief, trauma and domestic violence, as well as relationship and intimacy concerns. Her practice also incorporates frameworks that use body awareness and sensation to support self-exploration and recovery from past harms. These methods aim to help people process strong emotions and integrate difficult memories into everyday life.
Mindful practices and solution-focused ideas are used when they fit the person’s goals. Jacintha’s experience includes work with people adapting to new cultures, community change and caregiving stress. She also offers support around parenting challenges, career shifts, anger and compassion fatigue.
Her style is calm and patient, and she pairs empathy with clear, practical steps. Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans and she works with international clients while based in the United Kingdom. Prospective clients can expect a conversational, person-centred start and a collaborative plan that suits their needs.
What Jacintha works with
Everything Jacintha lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Jacintha helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Jacintha lists
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Approaches you can use online
Jacintha uses person-centred work to create a steady and respectful space. This approach focuses on listening, empathy and helping people make sense of their own thoughts and feelings. It suits people who want a reflective, paced way to work through personal issues.She also draws on trauma-focused ideas that attend to past harms and how those experiences affect current life. These methods often include noticing bodily sensations and learning ways to settle strong emotions. Solution-focused techniques are used too for clients who want brief, goal-oriented steps to handle practical problems.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will help clients decide which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences. That choice is made collaboratively and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make work possible around busy lives. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone calls can fit into a short break, and text or chat can be easier for quick check-ins or when someone does not want to be on camera. These options give flexibility for different rhythms and circumstances, helping people keep therapy working alongside everyday commitments.
Questions people ask about Jacintha
What concerns does Jacintha help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Other areas include parenting, relationship and intimacy issues, eating concerns, career changes and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her work is person-centred and collaborative. She listens, reflects and helps clients explore rather than giving fixed answers.
What sort of experience does she bring?
She has 25 years' experience in counselling and mental health work and draws on many courses in resilience, conflict resolution and coaching.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Person-Centred Counselling and is registered with the BACP. She practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Afrikaans, and she is able to work with international clients.
What formats are available for sessions?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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