Jazmina Grey is an Accredited Integrative and Person-Centred Counsellor, Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor offering face-to-face counselling in Buckhurst Hill and online counselling throughout the UK.
You don’t need to know exactly what’s wrong before coming to counselling.
Maybe your mind never seems to switch off. You replay conversations, worry about things other people seem able to brush off or feel exhausted from trying to keep everything together. Perhaps you’ve spent years being told you’re too sensitive, too emotional, disorganised or difficult, or you’ve become so used to adapting yourself to other people that you’re no longer quite sure what you need.
You might also be questioning whether ADHD or autism could explain some of your experiences, adjusting to a diagnosis later in life, struggling with anxiety or burnout, or worrying about a child who seems overwhelmed by school, friendships or their emotions.
Jazmina describes herself as warm, down-to-earth and very human. Clients often tell her they find it easy to open up to her because they don’t feel judged or as though they have to say the “right” thing. You can turn up as you are.
This is a question that can sit underneath many of the difficulties Jazmina sees.
You might be coping outwardly while privately feeling overwhelmed. Perhaps you’re constantly overthinking, struggling to regulate your emotions, finding relationships exhausting or pushing yourself until you eventually burn out. For some people, discovering they are neurodivergent provides part of the answer.
Jazmina has a particular interest in working with people with ADHD and autism, including adults who have spent much of their lives without knowing they were neurodivergent. A diagnosis, or even beginning to wonder about one, can make you look back at your life differently.
Was I actually lazy? Why did school feel so difficult? Why do I get overwhelmed so quickly? How much of my personality is really me, and how much is masking?
There can be enormous relief in finally having an explanation. There can also be anger, sadness, and grief for the version of yourself who spent years believing they simply weren’t trying hard enough. Therapy with Jazmina gives you somewhere to make sense of that.
Not everybody who is struggling looks as though they’re struggling. You may be successful at work, manage a family, keep appointments, answer messages and appear perfectly capable, while using an enormous amount of energy simply to keep functioning.
Masking can become so familiar that you don’t necessarily realise you’re doing it. You learn what people expect. You rehearse what you’re going to say. You suppress reactions. You push through sensory or emotional overwhelm. You say yes when you want to say no. Then you get home and have nothing left.
Jazmina’s approach is neurodivergence-affirming. She isn’t trying to teach you to become better at appearing neurotypical. Instead, counselling can help you understand what drains you, what overwhelms you, what you genuinely need and where you may be able to stop working quite so hard to be acceptable to everybody else.
Jazmina’s understanding of anxiety isn’t purely academic. She experienced anxiety herself from a young age, and it was partly her own experience and counselling that eventually led her towards becoming a therapist. She understands the exhausting loop of thinking, analysing and second-guessing.
Why did I say that? Did they think I was rude? What if this happens? What if I’ve got it wrong?
If that sounds familiar, you might recognise the feeling of wanting your brain to simply stop. Jazmina can help you understand what is driving the anxiety rather than just telling you to think positively or calm down. You might explore patterns, relationships, earlier experiences, emotional regulation or the beliefs you’ve developed about yourself.
If overthinking has become difficult to switch off, therapy can help you begin noticing the pattern without automatically being pulled along by it.
Jazmina also works with people who have spent years quietly doubting themselves. You might be very good at seeing what everybody else does well while immediately noticing everything you think is wrong with you. Maybe criticism stays with you for days while compliments disappear within minutes. You compare yourself to other people, need reassurance before making decisions, or feel that whatever you achieve, the goalpost simply moves again.
Sometimes feeling that you’re not good enough has roots in earlier relationships or experiences. For some neurodivergent people, it can also develop after years of being corrected, criticised or misunderstood. Jazmina won’t simply tell you to “be more confident”. She’ll help you become curious about why you learned to see yourself this way in the first place.
Jazmina brings substantial experience to her work with children, teenagers and families. Before moving fully into private practice, she spent many years working therapeutically in specialist educational settings with children and young people experiencing social, emotional and mental health difficulties. That means she understands that a child’s behaviour rarely tells the whole story.
An angry child may be overwhelmed. A teenager who won’t go to school may be anxious rather than defiant. A young person who seems unmotivated may be exhausted from trying to function in an environment that doesn’t work well for them. Jazmina has particular experience where neurodivergence, anxiety, trauma, emotional regulation, family life and education overlap.
She can work directly with children and young people and also offers family counselling.
You don’t need to have everything worked out before coming to counselling. You may know exactly what you need support with, or you may simply know that something needs to change.
Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, wondering if you may be neurodivergent, feeling exhausted from masking, worried about your child or finding it difficult to feel like yourself, Jazmina can help you begin making sense of what is happening.
If you would like to explore working with Jazmina, complete the enquiry form below. Our team can answer any questions and help you arrange an introductory call with her.