About Gina
Gina Zyla is a counsellor with 14 years of experience and a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. She holds a BACP membership and focuses on helping people work through anxiety, depression and stress. Gina offers a calm, accepting way of working so clients feel able to talk about difficult topics.
She draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person. That can mean talking through current thoughts and behaviours, looking at past patterns, or focusing on the effects of trauma.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and paced to suit the client, with attention to building coping strategies and resilience. Gina has substantial frontline experience supporting people who have faced loss and traumatic events. She aims to help people understand how those experiences shape their reactions and relationships.
The emphasis is on steady progress rather than quick fixes. Her work also covers relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, grief, sleep and eating difficulties, and workplace or caregiver stress. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, chronic illness, codependency and addiction related concerns.
Gina uses art-based methods and inner child work alongside talking therapies when these suit a client. She encourages small, achievable steps and helps people build emotional tools they can use between sessions. Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
How Gina’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client. In practice this means sessions centre on the client's priorities and feelings, and the counsellor follows the client's pace to build trust and clarity.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. It often includes practical exercises and simple changes to routines that can reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood.
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process upsetting events in a way that feels manageable. Work of this kind is paced carefully and aims to strengthen coping skills and reduce the day-to-day impact of traumatic memories.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss options and try methods that match the client's needs, goals and preferences. Decisions about techniques are made together and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility and easier access to regular support. Video calls work well for longer talks and exercises that benefit from visual contact. Phone sessions can be lighter check-ins and need less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter updates, emotional check-ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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