About Gill
Gill Brown is a counsellor with 20 years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and depression. She aims to create a calm space where clients can talk frankly about difficult feelings without fear of judgement.
Her approach is warm and straightforward. She listens first, then helps people spot patterns that keep causing them pain. Gill has a background in psychoanalytic training and uses that to look at unconscious habits that make problems repeat.
Background and approach
She combines this deeper work with practical strategies to manage symptoms day to day. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual. Gill encourages clear goals and small steps that can be tried between meetings.
She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness-related practices to build coping skills and reduce distress. Over two decades she has worked with people affected by domestic abuse, homicide and crime-related trauma, and complex emotional difficulties. That experience informs a steady, non-judgemental style that holds difficult material while aiming for practical relief.
Gill also supports people facing grief, addiction, parenting strain, identity and intimacy concerns, chronic illness and career stress. She accepts international clients and conducts work in English using online sessions by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice painful thoughts without fighting them and to take action toward a meaningful life. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with big life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviours to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It is often used for anxiety, sleep issues and mood problems.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels workable. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan so it fits the person rather than forcing one set style.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when that helps. Phone calls can fit into a shorter break or be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflection and more frequent contact between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit around work, caring duties and travel for those based in the United Kingdom or internationally.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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