Andreia Jennings, BACP

Andreia Jennings is an existential-integrative psychotherapist who has worked as a fully accredited practitioner since 2010. Her route into therapy began with three years of medical study, followed by a change to philosophy, a period teaching in secondary schools and work as a freelance journalist. A later move to another country intensified her own existential questions and motivated a deeper study of how people make sense of life and suffering.

For Andreia, existential questioning is a core human concern rather than an abstract exercise. Her work supports people in engaging more fully with life, reconnecting to themselves and to others, and repairing past ruptures so they can access their own regenerative energy. Over time her approach has expanded through ideas drawn from psychoanalytic developmental perspectives, narrative therapy and third-wave cognitive-behavioural techniques, creating an integrative framework tailored to each person she works with.

She has been influenced more recently by the work of Dan Siegel, which frames mental distress as disruptions in the flow of energy within and between people and their environment. Since 2015 Andreia has developed specialist experience supporting people with eating and food-related difficulties alongside a broad range of concerns including trauma, anxiety, grief, relationship and identity issues. She describes psychotherapy as an ongoing process of exploration, flexibility and the willingness to listen deeply and validate another person’s experience.