Jess Leigh:
Experienced Existential Therapist (MBACP)
(Currently fully booked)
My name is Jess Leigh, I am a friendly, direct and intelligent Existential Therapist, I provide effective open-ended counselling psychotherapy to adults in person at HQ Therapy in Haggerston, Hackney, E8 and on Zoom.
Compassionate and competent, I have been privileged to witness extraordinary transformation in therapeutic relationships with a diverse range of people over many years.
It can be an enormous relief to face troubling feelings.
Working with a neutral and trained listener can help join the dots between thoughts and feelings, creating fresh perspectives for the future and coming to terms with past events – even deeply traumatic ones.
Whatever’s on your mind, I can support you to make sense of it safely and to move forward with greater understanding, confidence and vitality. My role is as a facilitative equal – no one knows you like you but sometimes we need support uncovering parts of ourselves, especially when fearful.
In my experience, quality Therapy helps us understand ourselves more deeply, enabling positive change and identifying pathways to a more authentic and fulfilling future.
My specialisms include depression, anxiety; stress and self-esteem issues; working with high-profile, gifted and high-achieving adults in complete confidence, and relationship concerns of all kinds including recovery from coercive, codependent and toxic situations.
I offer therapeutic support to those with ADHD and have an interest in LGBT+ matters including relationships, sexuality, identity and gender.
- You may be feeling ‘too’ sensitive or stressed, guilty or anxious.
- You may be lacking in confidence or self-esteem.
- You may be struggling with a current or historic relationship or family and work problems.
- You might be battling with unresolved loss and bereavement.
- You may find it hard to live early memories or current experiences of neglect or abuse.
- You could be trying to understand a sense of ‘failure’, disappointment or loneliness.
- Sometimes we feel sad, low or troubled without a clear reason, just a sense that something is ‘off’ and worth exploring.
About me:
A former TV producer I retrained over ten years ago when a mental and physical crisis forced a personal and lifestyle overhaul. I had been a ‘Therapy-cynic’ but was humbled after my own experience of counselling proved revelatory. It was a relief to ‘relate’ at a level from which I could access elemental change not just in thinking, but also feeling.
This is why my preferred therapeutic approach is Existential.
Existentialism simply means ‘about existence.’ (Often this boils down to understanding ourselves in relationships with others). Its gently questioning position seeks to define what matters to us, uniquely, and how our attitudes, values and beliefs align with who we really are.
It explores ways in which we can move toward actions and behaviours that encourage satisfying and meaningful lives and helps unlock patterns and attitudes that are unhelpful to us as individuals. The existential process can improve relationships, health and contentment along with greater ‘self and other’ tolerance.
Ideally, you will arrive at an acceptance that no matter how complex, you can be you and I can be me.
If you’d like to find out more about how Therapy works, please contact me below and book an initial session.
***If you are interested in contacting Jess Leigh or need information and guidance about therapy, please use the contact form at the bottom of this page.***
