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Andreia Jennings, BACP

Stress, Anxiety Trauma, Abuse Grief Eating disorders Depression
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About me

I'm an existential-integrative psychotherapist. I have been practising as a fully accredited psychotherapist since 2010. My journey into this career started with 3 years of being a medical student followed by a change in my interests and becoming a philosophy student. After graduating from philosophy, I taught in secondary schools and did some freelance journalism. I then changed countries and became more aware of my own existential questions and dilemmas. That's when I decided that I wanted to understand better the human mind and the way we navigate our journey through life. Existential questioning is not some fanciful philosophical talk, but an integral need for self-understanding, an essential tool for engaging with life. As long as we are alive, we are facing existential questions, no matter our level of intelligence or training. Life means existential questioning. However, engaging with this questioning requires paying attention to it and actively and persistently pursuing it. Though it’s natural to us to question life, it’s not necessarily habitual to us to engage fully with this type of questioning.
Existential therapy helps clients to engage more fully with life, to learn to reconnect to self, others and the environment by healing past ruptures and getting more in touch with the regenerative energy which each of us possesses.
Over the years my approach to therapy kept developing and enriching through knowledge from psychoanalytic theories, which helped me understand human beings through a developmental perspective. Narrative therapy and third wave CBT approaches also inspired my way of working with different psychological difficulties.
I’ve worked over the years with a wide range of issues, and I have been inspired more recently by dr Dan Siegel’s work which understands mental distress as ruptures in the flowing of energy inside us and between us and what surrounds us.
Since 2015, I’ve also worked with eating disorders, and I’ve kept enriching my knowledge and capacity to support clients who suffer from these presentations.
Psychotherapy involves a process of constant self-exploration and self-improvement and continual capacity to be flexible and able to connect and fully understand and validate others.

Professional experience

14yrs in practice
Stress, Anxiety Trauma, Abuse Grief Eating disorders Depression

Additional areas of focus: Addictions, LGBT, Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Intimacy-related issues, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Attachment issues, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Guilt and shame, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Postpartum depression, Post-traumatic stress, Self-love, Young adult issues

Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Focused Therapy

Services offered

Video
Phone
Live Chat
Messaging

Languages

EnglishRomanian

Credentials information

BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP #47259

Reviews

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Andreia has been a wonderful and thoughtful listener over the year. I have felt more grounded and calm through the sessions.

Written on Nov 05, 2024 after therapy with Andreia for 11 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, and grief

Andreia is very helpful and professional. Recommended!

Written on Oct 21, 2024 after therapy with Andreia for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, self esteem, anger management, and coping with life changes

Andreia has been a huge help to me. She has helped me to understand myself better so that I can try to adapt to my own needs more and she has also been extremely kind and supportive in the process. Our sessions have vastly improved my life and helped me through an incredibly tough period and I am sure they will continue to help and guide me in the future. I am very grateful to Andreia for all her support, professionalism and guidance.

Written on Oct 11, 2024 after therapy with Andreia for 11 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, sleeping disorders, self esteem, coping with life changes, and adhd

Andrea is so kind, gentle and understanding. She really listens and has a lot of years of experience and knowledge

Written on Oct 02, 2024 after therapy with Andreia for 1 year and 9 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, anger management, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and adhd

From the very first moment i’ve heard Andreia’s voice a felt safe, heard and free to express my thoughts. From our interactions i feel like she is very insightful, sensitive and gentle person. I am glad i listened to my intuition and chose Andreia as a therapist, thank you for being such a lovely human being.

Written on Jul 25, 2024 after therapy with Andreia for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, and trauma and abuse

Andreia is attentive, respectful, and knowledgeable. She speaks thoughtfully and I’m so grateful to her. She’s spectacular and would recommend her to anyone.

Written on Jun 28, 2024 after therapy with Andreia for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, and career difficulties