Jacqueline Green Counselling

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Jacqueline Green Counselling

I am a young person and adult counsellor. BSc, PGDip, MBACP. I am a registered member of the BACP.

I offer online and phone counselling sessions throughout the UK and additionally, face to face within East Lothian. All emotions, challenges, life experiences and difficulties are welcome in counselling. Some of my speciality areas include; adolescents, childhood trauma, attachment/ relationships, grief/bereavement, suicidal ideation, pre/postnatal difficulties and estrangement. As a person-centred counsellor, I adapt my practice depending on a person's unique needs to ensure that you get what you need out of counselling. I will offer you understanding, empathy and complete acceptance. I hope that this helps you to feel comfortable, trusted and safe, especially because talking through some of our most difficult feelings can be scary. By validating your emotions and experiences, and sometimes offering gentle challenge to gain insight and awareness, we can work together, at your own pace, to process and heal your difficulties and help you move forward in healthier ways, in a way that's more true to who you really are.

12/12/2025

Healing in a world which hasn’t healed yet 💛

Thoughts welcome!!!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

09/12/2025

For over a decade, talking therapy has been at the heart of my work.
 It’s where I learned how life-changing it is to be heard, (sometimes for the very first time), understood and emotionally held.
But two years ago, after a personal trauma, I realised something important….my mind understood my pain, but my body was still holding it.
 That’s what opened the door to somatic work for me. First in my own healing, then with other women in community, and now woven into my practice. And truly, it changed everything.

Somatic work didn’t replace talking therapy. It deepened it. Strengthened it. Made it more whole.
Maybe you’ll recognise yourself in this…

You’ve engaged in self reflection and growth over time.
You understand your patterns. You can name what you’re feeling. You reflect, journal, try to live in alignment, set intentions… You know yourself well.

But something still feels stuck.
 Like your insight isn’t quite reaching the part of you that’s hurting. No matter how much you ‘know’ or you can logically understand, your body still feels it deeply.
Maybe it feels it through big triggers, or maybe it seeps through in daily life through patterns or reactions that you don’t like.

If that feels familiar, somatic work might be the piece you’ve been missing.

TALKING THERAPY us understand. Which can lead to compassion for ourselves, and engaging in the world or with ourselves differently.  And SOMATICS helps us release the traumas and discomfort inside of us that is stuck. It helps the body complete the action it never could at the time…..
the tears, the boundaries, the running away, the scream, the tension we had to suppress to feel safe.

The way I work now blends both approaches gently and intuitively. We talk, we notice, we pause, we listen to your body together. Nothing is forced. Nothing is rushed. Just a slow, steady unravelling at your pace.

And I want you to know I’m walking this path too. I’m not “finished”. I’m constantly learning and healing alongside you. That’s why I meet you with softness, not judgement.

If you’re longing for a deeper, more embodied kind of healing… one that includes your whole self —
I’m here when you’re ready.

04/12/2025

So many people think healing begins with understanding.
If I can just make sense of it…
If I can just figure out why I feel this way…
If I can explain it, name it, map it out… then I’ll finally feel better.
Does this sound like you? I have certainly found myself aching for more understanding at times for sure.

But clarity isn’t the starting point.
Clarity is often the result of moving, feeling, and slowly unravelling what’s been held inside the body for years.

We forget that the mind loves certainty….it wants clean answers, neat logic, a story that makes everything feel safe and predictable.
But the body?
The body doesn’t deal in concepts.
It deals in sensations, impulses, contractions, openings, and quiet truths that don’t always make sense at first.

Healing usually looks less like “I finally understand everything,”
and more like…
“I’m willing to step forward even though part of me is scared.”
“I’m trusting what I feel, not just what I can explain.”
“I’m letting my body lead me somewhere new, even when I can’t see the whole path.”

You don’t need a full plan.
You don’t need perfect emotional language.
You don’t need certainty.

You just need a small amount of courage and the willingness to meet yourself where you are -
even in the dark, even in the unknown, even when it feels messy.

And strangely…
that’s often exactly where clarity finds you.

Where talking therapy meets somatic therapy - that’s where our work begins. J x

26/11/2025

I’m not above anyone. I’m not “more healed,” “more evolved,” or “further along.”
I’m a human doing the work too… just like you.

The difference is simply that I’ve learned to meet my own triggers with curiosity instead of shame.
When something rises in me: irritation, hurt, defensiveness, fear, I don’t see it as proof that I’ve failed or that I “should be over this by now.”
I see it as information.
A gentle signal from my body saying, something in here needs attention. And I give it that little bit of gentle attention.

That honesty keeps me soft.
It keeps me connected.
It keeps me from slipping into judgment of myself or of anyone else.

It means I can meet people exactly where they are, without needing them to be further ahead, more self-aware, or “better.”
Because I know how it feels to still be healing, even while helping others heal too.

And the path doesn’t end… FYI… it isn’t supposed to.l 😏 We grow, we regress, we notice, we repair.
Again and again.

And this is exactly how I sit with clients:
never above, never beyond….just beside.
Listening, noticing, holding what comes up with compassion instead of criticism.

Healing isn’t about becoming someone “better.”
It’s about becoming someone honest.
Someone who can hear themselves deeply enough to hear others too.

And I’m walking that path right alongside you.

21/11/2025

Women aren’t “too emotional.”
They’re angry….and they have every reason to be.

Most women I work with don’t realise how much anger they’re holding because they’ve been taught their entire lives to rename it as something softer: stress, overwhelm, irritability, tiredness, sensitivity, hormonal, dramatic, overreacting.

But anger isn’t the problem.
The silence around it is.

Women are angry because they’ve been carrying the emotional labour of every room they enter since they were little girls.
Because they’ve been told to be polite while swallowing what hurts.
Because they’re expected to “understand” everyone else but are rarely given the same consideration.
Because they’ve learned that being direct makes them difficult, needy, or unkind.
Because they’ve had to make themselves small just to stay safe.

Your anger is not a flaw.
It’s information.
It’s the part of you that says, “Something isn’t fair. Something isn’t okay. Something needs to change.”

This post isn’t about blaming men or labelling women. And it’s not even blaming society or institutions (yet 😜), it’s about finally naming what has been pushed down for generations….
and giving women permission to stop apologising for emotions that were never wrong.

⭐️ Share this with the women in your circle who need to hear that their anger is valid.
⭐️ Share it with the men in your life who want to understand you better.
⭐️ Share it with the version of you who thought she had to stay quiet to be loved.

Your anger isn’t too much.
It’s the truth trying to move.

13/11/2025

We’ve all been told to “set boundaries.”
And it is good advice, sometimes life-saving.

Boundaries built from self-trust, awareness, and safety are essential. They help us stay grounded, connected, and in integrity with ourselves. Many of us have spent years learning to say no, to choose peace, to stop overextending, and that’s powerful work.

But here’s the part we don’t talk about enough….

Sometimes the line we draw isn’t rooted in self-trust…
it’s rooted in fear.

- Like when we don’t reply to a message because we think we’ve been rejected.
- When we ghost a friend instead of saying, “that hurt my feelings.”
- When we block someone to avoid the discomfort of conflict, not because they’re unsafe, but because we feel exposed.
- When we label every difficult conversation as “too draining” when, really, it’s just vulnerable.

Those moments aren’t shameful, they’re human.
But they’re also opportunities.

Because when a “boundary” is built on fear, it doesn’t protect our peace…it protects our pain.
It keeps us from sitting long enough in the discomfort to learn what it’s trying to show us.
It stops emotions from moving through the body, so they stay stuck, humming beneath the surface.

And this isn’t about judging yourself.
Avoidance can wear the same outfit as self-care.

When we pause and ask,

“am I protecting myself, or am I avoiding something inside me?”

we begin to tell the difference.

Sometimes a healthy boundary is closing the door.
Sometimes it’s keeping it open just long enough to breathe through the discomfort.

Both can be loving.
Both can be healing.

It’s about knowing which part of you is choosing 🤎

If you’re looking for a counsellor who can hold all of you, and encourage you to help stay with the feelings and sensations long enough to create new patterns, then that might be me. 😏😌 That’s the beauty of the therapy I provide…. Talking therapy mixed with somatic therapy. 🥰

11/11/2025

Imagine this…..

03/11/2025

How can we lean into wintering? 🌲⛄️🧣🪾🌨️

Every season asks something different of us.

Summer invites expansion.
With long evenings, open windows, connection, movement, more time spent outdoors in the fresh air, lightness (and maybe even some fruit platters and iced coffees 🙃)

Winter, though, asks something quieter.
It calls us inward.
To restore, to ground, to gather ourselves.

In a world that tells us to stay “on” all year round, winter reminds us that rest is not regression…..
it’s renewal. We’re meant to have seasons too.

This is the time for slower mornings.
Stretches and wind downs. Less plans and more permission to slow down. For warm, grounding food.
For tending to what’s been neglected….
Maybe that’s our energy, our inner world and our bodies. For letting stillness do its work.

Leaning into winter isn’t about isolation.
It’s about integration.

Listening 💫 replenishing 💫 reconnecting

So that when light returns, we rise from rest, not depletion.

To make the most of winter and allow it to help us, we need to see its beauty and its strength.
It’s offers us SO much!!!!

What things can you think of doing and way of being, that can help you lean into wintering?
I would love to hear ⬇️

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