Director, Psychodynamic Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Couple Therapist and Clinical Supervisor
Jane is the director of the Turner Centre in Colchester and the Stephenson Centre in Ipswich and is a highly experienced and compassionate psychotherapist who supports individuals and couples through many of life’s most challenging times. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or depression, navigating a difficult relationship, coping with bereavement, or simply seeking to understand yourself better, she offers a thoughtful and supportive space to explore your concerns at your own pace.
So much of life requires us to ‘hold it together’. Therapy is a place where we are allowed to ‘fall apart’, speak the unspoken and begin to put words to what’s felt unsayable. Jane believes that healing begins not with solutions, but with presence—with someone sitting alongside you, seeing you and listening. She sees therapy as a space where people come not just to “feel better,” but to understand themselves more deeply, make sense of their inner lives, and move forward with more self-trust.
Janes approach is psychodynamic which means she helps people explore how past experiences – especially early relationships – may still echo in present-day patterns of thinking, feeling and relating. Rather than offering advice or quick fixes, she works alongside you to uncover the roots of emotional pain, gently bringing what’s hidden into awareness. Over time, this creates space for real change.
When working with couples, she also uses a systemic lens, helping partners to break out of reactive cycles, improve communication and re-discover emotional connection – even when trust has been eroded or the relationship feels stuck. Her approach honours the complexity of two inner worlds in relationship with each other.
Prior to her therapy training, Jane worked in the NHS managing Community Health Services in Hackney, East London. Her first therapy training was in 1998 and since then she has worked for 10 years as a specialist palliative care psychotherapist in a hospice setting supporting individuals and families facing terminal illness, grief and existential issues. She facilitated bereavement groups, carer’s groups and designed training workshops for professionals supporting the dying and bereaved. More recently, she has worked in the NHS psychotherapy department offering long-term therapy to individuals with severe and complex personality difficulties, for Essex County Council as a staff counsellor and mediator supporting staff and managers in resolving workplace conflict, 10 years as a practice counsellor for three GP practices in Colchester and teaching and supervising trainee therapists as a seminar leader on a psychodynamic training in Chelmsford.
She holds a professional doctorate from the University of Essex, a masters degree (MSc) in Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of London (Birkbeck) and additional qualifications in couple, family and systemic therapy from the Institute for Family Therapy, London. She is an accredited member of the BACP.
Fees: Individuals £90 Couples £110
