About Gillian
Gillian Smith is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and other common life stresses. She writes simply and directly with people who feel overwhelmed, anxious or stuck in mind. Gillian aims to make the first step easier and to offer steady, non-judgemental support.
Gillian uses a person-centred approach that puts the client's experience at the heart of sessions. That means she listens closely, reflects what she hears, and works to build trust so people can speak freely about what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns from the past that affect how someone feels today. Her counselling journey followed many years working in other professional roles supporting wellbeing. She retrained in 2019 and holds an Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling.
Gillian also holds the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy credential, BACP, and is listed with NCPS as supplied. Sessions are tailored to each person. Gillian helps people talk through anxiety, stress, grief, low self-esteem, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, career questions, ADHD challenges, and the strain of life changes.
She pays attention to attachment, abandonment worries, communication problems, guilt, shame and building self-love. Her style is warm and straightforward. Conversations aim to clarify what matters, identify patterns that hold someone back, and find practical ways to move forward.
People who want a calm, patient listener and a clear plan may find her approach helpful.
How Gillian adapts therapeutic approaches online
Gillian uses person-centred counselling to put the client's experience first, listening closely and reflecting back to help someone feel heard and understood. This approach is useful for people managing anxiety, stress, low self-worth and life transitions because it aims to make the client feel safe to speak openly.She also draws on psychodynamic therapy, which looks at patterns and relationships from the past that can shape current feelings and reactions. This can help when recurring themes such as attachment, abandonment or long-standing guilt and shame are part of what someone wants to address.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gillian collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals, and she adapts plans as therapy progresses. That way the focus stays practical and relevant to the person's everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows for flexible, asynchronous contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, home life and other commitments while keeping the same therapeutic aims.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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