David Jackson, BACP
10 years in practice
David Jackson uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other approaches to help people feel understood and change unhelpful patterns.
License and registration
- BACP
- 397302 · expires September 2026
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About David
David Jackson uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside other approaches to help people feel understood and change unhelpful patterns. He greets clients with a calm, straightforward manner and aims to make the first steps easier to take. David's work is practical and person-focused, with short goals set alongside longer-term exploration.
David has ten years of experience in counselling and supervision. He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
That background shapes how he plans sessions and reviews progress with each person. Sessions draw on several therapeutic methods. David often uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help clarify feelings in relationships and attachment, cognitive behavioural ideas to examine thinking patterns, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to support people living with difficult emotions.
He adapts his approach to suit each person's needs and pace. His practice covers a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and career or parenting pressures. Additional areas he works with include ADHD, compassion fatigue, body image, chronic illness, and questions around sexuality and kink culture.
David also brings experience from working as a lead counsellor in a sixth-form college and as a counselling supervisor. He aims to offer a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk, make sense of difficult moments, and practise new ways of coping.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything David lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches David names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How therapeutic approaches work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to help people notice and name core emotions and how these shape their relationships and reactions. It can be useful where attachment, intimacy and relationship patterns cause repeated distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches skills to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that align with personal values. It often helps with anxiety, stress and coping with long-term challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work and is decided together. The therapist will discuss how different methods might help and will adapt sessions to match the person's goals, preferences and the pace they want to move at. This collaborative way makes it easier to try techniques and then change course if something does not fit.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit shorter breaks or use less bandwidth, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options help people keep therapy going around work, family and travel commitments, and make it easier to maintain regular contact over time.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of issues can be worked on here?
David helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma, as well as relationship and intimacy-related concerns. He also supports people facing career pressures, parenting strain, ADHD and long-term health challenges.
What is his therapeutic style like?
He follows a client-led, relational style that mixes Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioural ideas. Sessions focus on understanding feelings, looking at thinking patterns and trying practical steps between meetings.
How much experience does he have?
He has ten years of clinical experience working in counselling and supervision roles. That experience informs how he structures sessions and supports people over time.
What are his credentials and where is he based?
He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and works in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with him?
International clients are not currently accepted. He works with people based in the United Kingdom.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. These options allow for flexible check-ins, shorter contacts and different ways of working depending on practical needs.
How are costs handled and how do I begin?
Fees vary with location and the subscription used; sessions run on a cancellable subscription model. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to therapist availability.
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