Jackie Coombs

Group-Analytic Psychotherapy 

Group therapy can restore balance from the above in order for you to resume functioning back in your families, socially and professionally. Group therapy is usually a lot cheaper than individual therapy, making it a more economical choice of therapy.   

The group follows a group-analytic theory, which is free associative. All that means is you say what is on your mind, and another group member may respond to what you have said, this acts as a chain reaction for thoughts and feelings from the past that can resurface in order to be explored by the group.  

Gradually as the group gets to know you and you get to know other group members, social anxiety can be treated, and group members can feel less alone than they did when they started the group.  Dreams can also be brought to the group and explored.  

Initially, you would have an assessment, followed by weekly, fortnightly or monthly consultation before joining the group, depending on previous therapy and your history.  

The group can have up to nine (including me) people in the group.  A mix of ages, genders, cultures, the group functions better the more diverse the group members are.    

In person on Fridays PM in Sheffield, S11. 

My career spans twenty years being a counsellor, a Registered Manager of substance misuse rehabilitation services and children and young people’s care homes and working in the NHS as a highly specialist psychotherapist and group psychotherapist in London and the Midlands. 

Supervision 

I provide individual and group supervision for student counsellors, psychotherapists, trainee and qualified psychologists and trainee or experienced psychotherapists either in person or online. 

I am an accredited member of the UKCP, a Registered Member of the BACP Association and a full clinical member of the Institute of Group Analysis.  

The initial contact is usually by telephone or zoom.  We will have a conversation about availability then decide if you would like to continue with an assessment.  The assessment is an opportunity to tell me about yourself.  I ask some questions about your past and present life and what has brought you to therapy.  Afterwards, you can decide if you’d like to work with me, then the journey begins.  

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy & Counselling 

There comes a time when everyone can feel exhausted, when everything seems fine on the outside but inside there is chaos on the inside, you may be tired, work can be demanding, bills are high.  There seems there is no relief, family or relationships may be difficult with the strain of life.  You could be experiencing a relationship breakdown or feel unable to cope and function with everyday life, but you still have to keep going. When studying is overwhelming, deadlines feeling impossible to reach.  Getting old and ageing can bring about challenges of its own with tiredness, regret, and menopause.  Losing someone you loved or losing someone you have a more difficult relationship with – a more complicated grief.   The bereavement process can last a long time and talking about how the death has changed your life can help.  Also, having any destructive or addictive behaviours in your life that used to help you manage and have become their own problem, talking about this to a therapist can help too.  Talking in therapy can help.   

Approaching a therapist for the first time and speaking to a stranger about your personal life can feel daunting initially. However, once you get through those initial and understandable anxieties, you can be surprised by how helpful it can be to talk with someone you have no prior contact with. If you’re feeling alone with what you’re going through or have social anxiety and find teams, group of people daunting group therapy can help.  

Online and in person in Sheffield, S10 & S11.