About Gareth
Gareth Harris is a counsellor who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, and coping with life changes. He holds a BACP credential and has three years of practical experience. Gareth aims to provide a calm space where people can talk about what feels hard right now.
He trained at the University of Essex, earning a masters in psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has also completed shorter courses covering children's well-being and autism, which inform how he listens and asks questions.
Background and approach
Gareth aims to help people understand patterns in their feelings and behaviour. In sessions he will invite open conversation and may ask questions to get a clearer picture. He describes his role as offering a safe space to open up and reflect.
The work is collaborative and paced to the person sitting in the room. Gareth also volunteers with the Road Victims Trust, where he supports people dealing with grief, trauma and related concerns. That work has given him experience with complex emotional responses following sudden loss or injury.
People can expect straightforward, empathic conversation and practical attention to what is happening now. Gareth aims to help people spot repeating patterns, build steadier coping, and feel more able to make choices that suit them.
Approaches that guide online therapy sessions
Gareth draws on psychodynamic ideas that look at how past experiences shape present feelings. This approach helps people spot repeating patterns, understand where strong emotions come from, and make different choices in relationships and everyday life.He also uses practical, evidence-based techniques to manage anxiety and stress. These include straightforward exercises to reduce immediate distress, improve coping, and build routines that support steadier mood and sleep.
Finding the right approach is a shared task. Gareth will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. He checks in as therapy progresses and adjusts the way he works based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and more conversational rhythm, while phone sessions can suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging provide flexible, on-the-go options for shorter reflections and steady contact between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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