About Gemma
Gemma Pyatt-Lonczyk is a counsellor who uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on straightforward, compassionate support for common concerns such as grief, depression and coping with life changes. Gemma works to create a calm space where people can talk things through and begin to feel more able to cope.
Gemma values the relationship between counsellor and client. She aims to listen without judgement and offers different ways of looking at difficult situations.
Background and approach
This helps people notice patterns and choose new responses that fit their life. Her background includes several years working in a hospice setting. There she offered palliative care counselling, anticipatory grief work and bereavement support.
That experience informs how she supports people facing loss, illness and major life changes. Sessions tend to focus on clear, practical steps alongside exploration of feelings and past experiences. Gemma helps people build tools for day-to-day coping and develop greater self-understanding.
She encourages small achievable changes rather than rushing progress. Gemma is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging for people in the United Kingdom.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and online working
Gemma draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine emotional exploration with practical coping skills. One approach she uses focuses on helping people recognise patterns of thought and behaviour that keep anxiety and stress active, and then testing small changes to reduce their effect. Another commonly used approach helps people process grief and adjust to loss by creating space to name emotions and build new routines that support coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gemma will collaborate with each person to identify which techniques match their needs, goals and preferences, and will adapt the focus as those needs change over time.
Online working includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit short check-ins and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family commitments and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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