Jacky Adams

Professional Profile

My name is Jacky and I am a fully qualified and BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with many years experience. Find me on jackyadams.com

I provide online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy using ZOOM to adults, teenagers and children. 

I work with a wide range of anxiety problems, including panic, social anxiety, health anxiety, phobias and low mood. Alongside this, I have a particular expertise in emetophobia (fear of vomiting) and low self-esteem. Emetophobia can be deeply isolating and misunderstood — I’m passionate about offering specialist support for people who feel anxiety is shrinking their world. I’ve completed additional training in these areas and use a range of evidence-based approaches.

With several years of experience in both the NHS and private practice, I support clients who feel anxiety is taking over — whether that’s fear of vomiting, intense worry, or feeling constantly judged and “not good enough.” These struggles can lead to a mix of anxiety and low mood, and my role is to help you move toward a calmer, more confident life.

When anxiety takes over, therapy can help you build a richer and more meaningful life. CBT provides practical strategies for adults, teens and children.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent over a decade as a teacher specialising in Special Educational Needs. This gives me a particular skill — and genuine passion — for helping children and teenagers feel understood, safe and empowered in therapy. 

I draw on modern CBT approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), to help reduce symptoms while reconnecting you to what matters most.

 I’m a warm, friendly clinician skilled at quickly building a supportive therapeutic relationship. 

 I also know what it’s like to be the person seeking support. Having had therapy myself, I’ll always respect how vulnerable it can feel to share personal struggles. Clients often tell me it feels as if I really “get” their experience — I believe this comes from both my professional training and my own lived understanding.

  I have a practical, down to earth approach to therapy. 

I try to equip you with the ability to be your own therapist so that at the end of therapy you no longer need me. 

 Sometimes we don’t learn this stuff- how to live well- as children and so in many ways therapy can be thought of as filling in those gaps.

I work according to the BABCP’s gold-standard professional and ethical guidelines, as well as the BACP’s ethical framework.
You can find out more at jackyadams.com.