- Years in practice
- 10
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Yoruba
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Janet
Janet Kwegan is a counsellor with ten years' experience in health and community settings. She has worked in the NHS, a hospice, a bereavement agency, a perinatal mental health charity, a cancer support centre, a women’s centre and a men’s counselling service. Janet draws on a range of therapy styles to help people facing difficult life moments.
Her background includes work with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, stress and anxiety.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with addictions, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, and parenting pressures. Additional focus areas include ADHD, compassion fatigue and a range of attachment and personality-related concerns. Janet describes her approach as existential.
She does not judge emotional suffering but looks at how a person experiences the world. Sessions consider relationships, identity, values, choices and sense of purpose in everyday life. In practice she adapts methods to what a person needs, drawing on client-centred work, cognitive approaches and emotion-focused ideas.
Conversations are plain and direct, aimed at making sense of the problem and finding practical ways forward. Janet also supports people through life transitions and difficult choices. Her experience includes both statutory and voluntary services, so she is familiar with a variety of situations and pressures.
Sessions are offered in English and Yoruba, and she works with international clients online. People who want to explore change or recovery can expect a steady, non-judgemental space to talk and plan next steps.
What Janet works with
Everything Janet lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Janet helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Janet lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- 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.
Therapy approaches you can use online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps when people struggle with closeness, trust or repeating painful relationship cycles. Client-centred therapy puts the person's own experience at the centre. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps the person find their own pace and direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical strategies for stress, anxiety and mood problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Janet will discuss different methods and choose what fits the person's goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can change as the work progresses so the therapy stays relevant to current needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit fuller conversations; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging allow brief, ongoing contact between more formal sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel, while keeping a steady course of support.
Questions people ask about Janet
What kinds of problems can Janet help with?
She works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and family issues, trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, addictions, parenting, self-esteem and ADHD.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is existential and client-centred, focusing on how a person experiences their life. She uses practical, conversational work to help make sense of difficulties.
What is her professional background?
Janet has ten years' experience in the NHS and in voluntary sectors such as hospices, bereavement services, perinatal mental health and cancer support centres.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds BACP and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Yoruba, and she is able to work with international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Janet offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and priced?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions operate via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a session according to her availability.
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