About Jennifer
Jennifer Mcpherson (Norman) helps people who are struggling with relationship problems, family issues, trauma and abuse, and intimacy concerns. She also supports those dealing with depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, and challenges around self-esteem and parenting. Jennifer brings 25 years of experience to her work and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She emphasises that clients are the experts in their own lives and builds on existing strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and gentle exploration rather than jargon. Jennifer aims to create space where people can say what feels hard and try out different ways of coping. Her approach draws on somatic methods to notice how the body holds experience, and on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed work to help people clarify values and repair relational patterns. Conversations are collaborative and paced to the person sitting in front of her. Jennifer has helped people with a wide range of concerns across many years.
She pays attention to the effects of trauma, chronic illness and caregiving strain, as well as issues such as adoption, attachment, and identity. Her practice is aimed at people seeking practical, compassionate support for real-life problems. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
The emphasis is on steady progress, learning new skills, and finding ways to live that feel more manageable and meaningful.
Approaches that translate to online work
Somatic work focuses on noticing bodily sensations and how the body responds to stress. Online sessions can support people to tune into breathing, posture and bodily signals and to practice grounding exercises that reduce overwhelm.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that fit those values. In remote sessions this often looks like short experiments, values clarification and simple behavioural goals to try between meetings.
Attachment-based work explores patterns in close relationships and aims to build more supported ways of relating. Online conversations can map those patterns, practise new ways of communicating, and bring greater awareness to how past relationships affect present ones.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process and happens together with the client. The counsellor will discuss options, listen to preferences and tailor the work to the person's needs and goals in a collaborative way.
Online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for busy lives and for people in different locations. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions, try out brief exercises in the moment, and fit therapy around other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- 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
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English