Jennifer Mcpherson (Norman)
Practical, relationship-focused counselling with compassion
BACP United Kingdom
- Experience
- 25 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Jennifer
Jennifer Mcpherson (Norman) helps people who are struggling with relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, depression, anxiety and stress. She also supports people facing addiction, grief, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, low self-esteem, ADHD and other life changes.
Background and approach
Jennifer works from a respectful, down-to-earth stance that treats each person as the expert on their own life. She focuses on practical steps that fit into everyday routines.
Sessions aim to make problems clearer and to try manageable changes that build confidence. Jennifer listens for what matters most and then offers tools drawn from different approaches to suit each person’s needs.
With 25 years of work in the United Kingdom, Jennifer draws on a mix of approaches. She uses the Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas, together with client-centred and cognitive behavioural techniques.
These are used as flexible options rather than a single fixed method. Jennifer holds BACP registration and frames therapy as a collaborative process.
She emphasises small, steady changes and practical coping skills rather than quick fixes. Sessions can focus on emotion, behaviour or communication depending on what will help most.
Her style is calm, encouraging and down-to-earth. She aims to help people feel heard and to create clearer steps forward.
The focus is on finding ways to manage current struggles and to build stronger connections in life.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them. It teaches skills to act in ways that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, depression and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect present connections and emotions; it can be useful for people wanting to improve trust, closeness and communication.The right approach often emerges through collaboration. The counsellor will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that feel sensible and adjust them over time based on what works in practice.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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Experience
25+ years
Registered with
BACP
Languages
English