About Gillian
Gillian Burnett is a person-centred counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years' experience. She works online with adults to address worries and life difficulties, including anxiety, trauma, loss and self-esteem concerns. Gillian uses a direct, respectful style and asks clients to be open about what they want from therapy.
Her approach is grounded in listening and collaboration. Sessions focus on the client’s priorities and practical next steps when those are wanted.
Background and approach
Gillian will offer simple, clear suggestions if a client asks for advice, but otherwise supports people to find their own answers. She combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural ideas and narrative techniques to help people reframe difficult thoughts and make small changes. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events continue to cause distress, and solution-focused tools help set short-term goals.
Gillian often helps people coping with bereavement, relationship or intimacy worries, addictions, sleep and eating problems, career stress, and the fallout from major life changes. She also works with issues such as ADHD, attachment and adoption-related concerns, chronic illness strain and caregiver stress. Sessions are offered in English via video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Gillian is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - which is noted here as provided in her profile. If someone wants to start, they complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions that suit them.
How therapy approaches shape online sessions
Gillian draws on client-centred work which focuses on a person’s own perspective and priorities. This approach means the counsellor listens without judgement and helps people lead the direction of sessions, which suits those who want space to make sense of their feelings.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, to help identify and test unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping strategies. CBT is often helpful for issues like anxiety, sleep problems and low mood where changing thought patterns and routines can reduce distress.
The choice of approach is decided together. Gillian will talk through options, try techniques that match the person's goals, and adjust methods as needed. The process is collaborative and shaped by the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face with less travel, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, while live chat or text messaging provide a brief check-in or ongoing written support. These formats make it easier to attend sessions around work, caregiving or other commitments and allow different ways of communicating depending on what feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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