About Guy
Guy Illingworth is a counsellor working from a person-centred and Jungian background. He has four years of experience supporting people with issues such as anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and challenges around rehabilitation and behaviour change. Guy offers a calm, non-judgemental presence and aims to create a space where people can speak openly about difficult things.
He trained originally as a person-centred counsellor and later studied Jungian psychology and psychodynamic ideas.
Background and approach
That mixture shapes how he works - putting the person at the centre while also offering structure when it helps. Sessions are adapted to what each individual needs rather than following a fixed script. Guy describes his approach as empathetic and relationship-focused.
He pays attention to the emotional meaning behind someone’s experience and helps them reflect on patterns that affect daily life. Practical steps may be discussed alongside deeper exploration depending on the situation. People come to him for a wide range of concerns, including grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, and workplace or career worries.
He also works with matters such as body image, attachment issues, and the effects of abuse or loss. Guy works with clients in English and accepts international clients. Sessions can be arranged in formats that suit different lifestyles and schedules, and he encourages a collaborative conversation about goals and how therapy should proceed.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Guy draws on person-centred (Client-Centred) ideas to provide a listening, respectful space where the client's experience guides the work. This approach helps people who need to feel heard and understood before exploring change.He also uses Jungian therapy ideas to look at patterns, imagery and personal meaning beneath current feelings. That can be useful for people who want to understand recurring themes in their life or make sense of difficult emotional material.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic conversation. Guy will discuss goals and preferences with each person and try different ways of working until a good fit is found. This is a collaborative process and he adapts methods to what the client wants to focus on.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that helps, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to arrange meetings around work, caregiving or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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