About Tracey
Tracey Gardener is a counsellor who works with anxiety, stress and relationship patterns. She uses attachment-based ideas and mindfulness to help people understand how early experiences affect their feelings and choices. Her approach is calm and down-to-earth, aimed at making it easier to talk and to take the next step.
Tracey has twelve years of experience in counselling and holds a BA (Hons) in Integrative Counselling and an FdA in Counselling.
Background and approach
She also completed a Diploma in Mindful Mental Health and ongoing professional development in areas such as attachment, eating disorders and sex addiction. These studies inform the way she shapes sessions for each person. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful patterns, building practical coping skills and exploring difficult memories at a comfortable pace.
Tracey draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help with anxious thoughts and on psychodynamic and attachment perspectives to look at long-standing relationship patterns. Mindfulness practices are used to steady attention and manage stress in everyday life. People come to her with worries about anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting strain, anger and low self-esteem.
She also supports those navigating separation, blended family issues, substance concerns and body image struggles. Work is tailored to each person’s goals and pace rather than following a fixed script. Her manner is supportive and non-judgemental, with a focus on helping people feel understood.
Practical tools and reflective conversation are combined so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions. Reaching out is framed as a first, positive step towards change.
Attachment and CBT approaches for online counselling
Tracey commonly uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques in online work. Attachment-based therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they shape current emotions and connections. It helps people recognise repeating patterns and try different ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical steps. It can be useful for easing anxiety and building coping routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Tracey will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then try methods together to find a good fit. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made and needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Chat or messaging suits brief check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy around family, work and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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