About Gemma
Gemma "Phoebe" Harris is a UK-based counsellor with ten years of professional experience. She works in a humanistic, person-focused way and aims to meet each person with respect and compassion. Gemma uses plain language and straightforward conversation to help people who are anxious or under stress.
She supports people dealing with worry, panic, low mood and the fallout of trauma and abuse. She also helps with relationship struggles, intimacy concerns and issues connected to gender and sexuality.
Background and approach
Her listed areas include ADHD, autism, chronic illness and complex sexual lifestyles such as BDSM and kink. Gemma uses Client-Centred Therapy, which places the person at the heart of sessions. She tends to follow the pace a person sets and focuses on building understanding and self-awareness.
This approach is practical and conversational rather than directive. Sessions can address everyday problems like sleep disruption, parenting strain, anger and grief. Gemma also supports people facing major life changes, long-term health conditions, or feelings of emptiness and guilt.
She pays attention to the emotional impact of caregiving and compassion fatigue. People usually find sessions involve talking through current difficulties, identifying patterns that maintain distress, and experimenting with small changes between meetings. Appointments are available by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Gemma works in English and is based in the United Kingdom.
How client-centred therapy works online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person rather than the therapist. In practice this means the counsellor listens without judgement, reflects back what they hear, and follows the pace you set. This style can help with anxiety, low mood, relationship concerns and stress by building self-understanding and emotional clarity.The aim is collaborative. Gemma will work with you to choose ways of working that suit your needs and goals. Together you can try different session rhythms, adjust the focus from week to week, and agree how progress will be checked. Finding the right approach is part of the therapy itself rather than a one-time decision.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video is useful for a near face-to-face experience, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can suit short check-ins or people who prefer not to use a camera. These options can help fit therapy around work, family duties and mobility limitations, while keeping support accessible across different locations in the United Kingdom.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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