Jane Foers

I work flexible hours including some weekends and evenings.  I have an on-line booking system so clients are able to choose a time convenient to them.

I am an Integrative Counsellor and Therapeutic Coach, having worked over 15 years in the mental health sector for local and national charities, higher education and more recently within the equality and diversity sector.  I am also a qualified Adoption Support Counsellor/Coach and work remotely with adoptees (over 18), adoptive parents and birth parents whose lives have been impacted by adoption.  I tailor my approach to the unique complexities the life-long emotional roller coaster of adoption can bring to those in the adoption triad.

Alongside my counselling work I have trained in Coaching and Positive Psychology, which encompasses a forward looking approach, building on client set outcomes in a non-judgemental and empathic way.  I am also an accredited Sober/Alcohol Free Coach for 'grey area' drinkers.

My combination of counselling and therapeutic coaching enables clients to untangle and explore issues such as infertility, adoptive parenthood, identity, abandonment, loss, shame and attachment alongside any unhelpful behavioural patterns which may be as a result of such experiences.

I work using on-line platforms within a safe, confidential and welcoming environment.  I also offer walk and talk coaching to Jersey clients.  I believe this approach offers both flexibility and access.  I work within the guidelines of GDPR ensuring confidentiality and safe  practice.  

The first step is a phone call or email which explains in more detail how I work, to establish client expectations and to outline the differences between coaching and counselling to ascertain which approach would be best for the therapeutic relationship.  Thereafter, sessions are up to an hour.

I send clients either a Coaching or Counselling Agreement (outlining the cancellation policy, fees, etc) which is signed by both parties before the first session.  Subsequent sessions are then up to one hour.

The first session can be very much exploratory, particularly if the counselling is around adoption.  However, sessions can also be forward moving and progressive, depending on the client, what they bring to the session and whether counselling or therapeutic coaching is the best way forward. 

If sessions have an alcohol free focus, clients are asked to complete a questionnaire to establish if there are any risk indicators which would be explored together to find the best way forward.