Jeannette Roddy is a qualified counsellor/psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, working online and in-person from her base in North Yorkshire. She has been working and researching in the area of domestic abuse counselling since 2008 and has published two books about her research drawing on client experiences of domestic abuse counselling and what works and does not work for them. She has presented papers internationally has also published a competency framework for domestic abuse counselling with Professor Lynne Gabriel which is free to download.

In 2022, she started Dactari, a specialist domestic abuse counselling, counsellor training, supervision and research organisation which operates online to provide access to specialist services to counsellors and clients across the UK. She has personally trained over 70 therapists in domestic abuse counselling, which she estimates has increased options for specialist counselling support to over 1500 clients per year.