About The Pickle Jar Therapy Practice, Canterbury

Cultivating well-being in Canterbury

The Pickle Jar was created as a place where anyone can feel comfortable seeking therapy.

We know the challenges of life can be complicated, and we try to make getting help as simple and as unintimidating as we can. There is no particular kind of person who comes here, and no threshold of difficulty you have to meet before you are entitled to talk to someone.

We work with adults and young people from 13, one to one, from a room on St Johns Lane in central Canterbury, and securely online across Kent.

How we think about this work

Most difficulties can be worked through with the right support, at the right pace, with someone who is genuinely on your side.

Therapy here is a relationship rather than a treatment programme. You are not a problem to be corrected, and you will not be moved through a set of stages on a schedule. The work goes where you need it to go.

A place to explore what is worrying you
Time to work out what actually helps
Support to move in the direction you choose
Professional standards you can check, and hold us to

What to expect

Four things you can count on, whatever brings you here.

A warm welcome

Someone who is glad you came, and who will not make you justify being here.

A confidential space

What you say stays between us, within the limits we will explain at the start.

Sessions shaped around you

Not a programme you are put through. We work at the pace you set.

Flexible arrangements

A room in Canterbury, a secure video call, or walking outdoors where it suits the work.

As BACP members we work within a professional ethical framework, with ongoing supervision and continuing professional development. Meet our practitioners.

Questions about the practice

The name, the people, and who we work with.

Why is the practice called The Pickle Jar?

The name was chosen to be approachable rather than clinical. Starting therapy can feel like a formal and intimidating step, and the practice was set up to be somewhere people bring ordinary difficulties without ceremony. What matters more than the name is the work: confidential one-to-one counselling with BACP-registered practitioners.

What qualifications and registrations do your therapists hold?

Both practitioners are registered members of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Emma Dagg (MBACP #383581) and Lisa Barr (MBACP #414433). They hold accredited qualifications in counselling and psychotherapy, carry full professional indemnity insurance, and attend regular clinical supervision.

Can I choose which therapist I work with?

You are welcome to ask for a particular practitioner when you get in touch. We will also talk it through at your £35 initial assessment, where we consider who may suit your circumstances and what availability there is. Being well matched matters more than being seen quickly.

Who do you work with at the practice?

We work with adults and with young people from age 13, individually. Sessions take place in central Canterbury or securely online across Kent. If what you need is outside what we offer, we will say so and help you work out where to look instead.

If any of this sounds like the right place

You do not need to be sure. A first conversation is how you find out.

Schedule an initial assessment

£35 · 45 minutes · No obligation to continue