Holly Jones, NCPS
Compassionate somatic-informed counselling for life's hard moments
About Holly
Holly Jones is a counsellor who uses a somatic-informed approach alongside talking therapies. She blends body-aware work with practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and complex grief. Holly is registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS, and brings six years of professional experience in the UK.
She has over 2,000 client hours and has worked in the NHS and with charities supporting survivors of childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
Background and approach
Holly also supports people affected by suicide and complex grief through charity counselling roles. Her background includes more than two decades in the corporate world before retraining as a counsellor. In sessions she focuses on creating a calm, non-judgemental space.
She uses somatic awareness to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body. Alongside that she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns. Holly works with a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, parenting stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, bipolar and depression.
She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, chronic illness and caregiver stress. She offers practical strategies as well as emotional support. Sessions are offered in English and Holly accepts international clients.
Her practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, and sessions run via a cancellable subscription model.
How somatic work and talking therapies translate online
Holly commonly combines somatic-focused work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based approaches to help people manage emotional pain. Somatic work encourages gentle attention to body sensations and can help when stress or trauma feels stuck in the body; it is useful for anxiety, trauma responses and chronic stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on identifying values, learning to accept difficult feelings and taking small steps towards a meaningful life, which often helps with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Attachment-based ideas look at patterns from early relationships and how they affect current connections and trust, which can help with intimacy, abandonment and family-related struggles.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Holly treats this as a collaborative process, discussing what feels helpful and adjusting methods to match a person's goals and preferences. Many people find mixing somatic noticing with practical ACT or attachment-informed conversation gives a balance of feeling and thinking work.
Online therapy with Holly is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to make sessions easier to fit into busy lives. These formats add flexibility for those juggling work, caregiving or mobility limits and allow for ongoing support between calls. The practical range of options helps people maintain continuity of care and find a rhythm that suits their life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English