About Gillian
Gillian Hartley is a counsellor who focuses on stress and anxiety. She also helps people facing relationship problems, grief, trauma and abuse, eating concerns and low self esteem. She speaks plainly and aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and manageable.
Gillian has eight years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which she uses to guide a practical and respectful way of working.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what each person needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. In the room she takes a calm, person-focused approach. Conversations are collaborative and centred on what matters most to the client.
She listens for strengths and small changes that can ease daily pressure and improve mood. Gillian uses clear, goal-oriented tools when helpful. These techniques support coping with worry, low mood, and difficult life changes.
She also works on communication problems, body image, and eating and food-related issues in a straightforward way. People who are anxious or struggling after loss or difficult experiences can expect practical suggestions alongside gentle support. Gillian helps clients build coping skills, manage anger, and address issues such as fertility concerns, infidelity, narcissism, and other relationship stressors.
Her sessions aim to be flexible and focused. The aim is steady progress through manageable steps so people can return to daily life feeling more able to cope and to make choices that suit them.
How Gillian’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The therapist follows the client’s lead, listens carefully and helps people make sense of their feelings. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and when people want to feel heard and understood.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical tools and short exercises to reduce worry and improve coping with everyday stressors. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gillian will work collaboratively to choose techniques that fit each person’s needs, goals and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan can change if needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to regular support. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, written reflection and people who prefer not to speak aloud. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt these formats so the work is practical and fits into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Narcissism
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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