About Gill
Gill Brown is a counsellor with BACP registration and 20 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and related concerns. Her style aims to make it easier to talk about painful things without feeling judged.
She creates a calm, open space where clients can name difficult thoughts and feelings. Gill encourages small steps and realistic goals so progress feels achievable.
Background and approach
She listens for repeating patterns that can keep people stuck and brings these into the conversation in a straightforward way. Gill combines several well-known approaches to suit each person’s needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help clarify values and take meaningful action.
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try practical alternatives. Attachment-based ideas inform her work on relationship and intimacy issues, helping clients understand how past connections shape current reactions. Sessions are collaborative, with the client steering what feels most important to work on at each stage.
Clients can expect a respectful, down-to-earth approach. Gill supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, addiction-related concerns, ADHD, body image, and long-term health or caregiving stress. She accepts clients in the United Kingdom and from other countries, and works online by video, phone, chat or messaging.
How Gill uses different approaches in online therapy
Gill commonly uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify what matters to them and take steps in that direction. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression and life-change decisions because it focuses on values and small, purposeful actions.She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try different coping strategies. CBT-style work often involves practical exercises and short techniques that can be done between sessions to reduce worry and improve sleep or mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gill collaborates with each client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adapts the plan if something is not helpful or feels too much.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or messaging, giving flexibility for different situations. Video calls allow a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fit therapy around work, family life or other commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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