About Gail
Gail Gill is a counsellor with 26 years' experience helping people untangle painful feelings and life problems. She works in a down-to-earth way and encourages people to find their own answers. Gail holds a BACP credential and has trained in therapeutic counselling across several institutions in the UK.
Gail draws on humanistic and psychodynamic ideas alongside cognitive approaches. In sessions she listens, reflects, and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
The work aims to increase choice and control rather than handing down solutions. She has worked in a range of settings including local mental health services, a well known HIV charity, local government and personal organisations. That variety means she is used to meeting people from many walks of life and at different points of difficulty.
Gail keeps regular supervision and has engaged in personal counselling as part of her ongoing practice. This helps her stay focused on each person’s needs and on professional standards set by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
People come to her for many concerns including stress and anxiety, grief and depression, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, addictions and eating difficulties. She also works with mood disorders, obsessive behaviours and panic, and helps with life transitions such as midlife change and ageing issues.
How Gail’s approaches work online
Gail works with client-centred listening that puts the person’s experience first. This approach means sessions focus on what matters to the client and build on their own strengths and insights. It can help with feelings of emptiness, low self esteem and long-standing relational patterns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is used to notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes. CBT offers tools for managing anxiety, panic and obsessive thinking by testing and changing thoughts and behaviours.
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape current feelings and reactions. This can be useful for understanding attachment patterns, abandonment issues and recurring relationship difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gail will talk with each person about goals, worries and what fits their style, then agree a way forward. The decision about which methods to use is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions make it easier to attend from home, work or during breaks. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler if being on camera is difficult. Live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility so people can fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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