About Gillian
Gillian Overton is a counsellor with three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and has worked with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Gillian creates a calm space where clients can speak openly and feel heard.
She encourages small steps towards change and offers steady support through difficult moments. Before training as a counsellor, Gillian spent many years living abroad and travelling, mainly in North America.
Background and approach
Her background includes roles in the diplomatic service, the financial sector and work as a special education teacher. Those experiences shape how she listens and responds to practical life problems. Gillian believes the relationship between counsellor and client matters most.
She listens without judgement and aims to build trust slowly. Conversations focus on what is helpful here and now while also looking at wider patterns that cause pain. In sessions she uses straightforward approaches to help people manage anxiety, sleep problems, parenting stress and relationship difficulties.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to work with values and action, and uses attachment-based ideas when exploring how past relationships affect current ones. Gillian also uses client-centred and narrative techniques to help people tell their stories and find new perspectives. Sessions are practical and collaborative, with tools and ideas the client can try between meetings.
She accepts international clients and works in English.
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Gillian commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment‑Based Therapy and Client‑Centred Therapy in her online practice. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, avoidance and life transitions. Attachment‑Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and can help when relationship worries or feelings of insecurity are present. Client‑Centred Therapy focuses on empathetic listening and supporting the person to find their own solutions rather than being told what to do.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Gillian will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is felt or new issues emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people keep visual contact and read body language, while phone calls can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family life and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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