About Shaun
Shaun Gordon is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with a background in person-centred practice. He holds an FdSc in person-centred counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Shaun aims to make reaching out as straightforward and low-stress as possible for people who are worried or unsure about starting therapy.
He creates a warm, accepting atmosphere and works in partnership with each person.
Background and approach
Shaun checks in regularly to see how the work is going and adjusts the approach to match the goals the person brings. This helps keep sessions practical and relevant. Shaun has worked in both voluntary and personal settings and has three years' experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and grief.
He has also helped people facing relationship and interpersonal problems, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. His practice includes support around career strain, life changes and intimacy-related issues. Past roles include work with mental health charities and involvement with NHS services where he helped design and run recovery groups for people with treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive and body dysmorphic difficulties.
He has also facilitated a support group for obsessive-compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder and hoarding concerns since 2014. Shaun uses a person-centred foundation alongside mindfulness, solution-focused and somatic ideas when relevant. He aims for sessions that feel authentic and grounded, helping people notice what matters and take small, workable steps forward.
Approaches to change through online counselling
Shaun blends person-centred work with mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to guide online sessions. Person-centred practice means the counsellor offers warmth, listening and acceptance while the person sets the pace and goals. Mindfulness involves simple attention and grounding exercises that help with anxiety, stress and overwhelm. Solution-focused work emphasises small, practical steps and helps people identify what they want to move towards.Finding the best approach is treated as a joint process. Shaun will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that suit them. Together they decide whether to keep things mainly person-centred, introduce mindfulness exercises, or focus on short-term solutions and practical coping skills.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for a fuller conversation and visual contact. Phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging work well for shorter reflections, notes between sessions or when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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