Janine Hodge, BACP

Janine Hodge is a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) with seven years of clinical experience. She combines psychotherapy and coaching to address anxiety, low mood, self-doubt and emotional overwhelm. Janine also works with parenting and relationship issues and supports people facing trauma, grief and life transitions.

She founded Courage2Be Coaching & Psychotherapy in 2019 and has worked as a counselling lecturer and clinical supervisor. Her background gives her experience noticing patterns that keep people stuck in intrusive thoughts and unhelpful habits. She describes a strength for identifying those patterns quickly so work can move to practical change.

Janine uses an integrative approach that draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and attachment-based ideas alongside client-centred and solution-focused techniques. Sessions typically look at current difficulties, the beliefs behind them and the ways those beliefs formed over time.

Work in sessions focuses on practical steps - noticing thought and behaviour patterns, testing different responses, and building new routines that reduce overwhelm. Janine aims to help clients reduce self-criticism, strengthen boundaries and regain a clearer sense of purpose.

She pays attention to issues such as abandonment, attachment problems, family of origin concerns, codependency, autism and ADHD, and relationship challenges including infidelity and separation. People who want structured, clear ways to change habits and thinking often find this approach useful.

How Janine uses structured approaches in online work