About Gabriel
Gabriel (Gabor) Bene offers calm, straightforward support for people coping with anxiety, stress, depression and life changes. He works with concerns such as trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, and low self-esteem. Gabriel uses clear, practical methods to help people feel steadier and more in control.
He is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which is recorded as BACP. Gabriel has six years of professional experience.
How Gabriel works
He speaks English and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally. Gabriel draws on a mix of approaches so sessions can be tailored to what feels most helpful. He uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. He also adopts client-centred and emotionally-focused ways of working to make space for feelings and personal values. In practical terms Gabriel offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, letting people choose the format that fits their life.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time and costs vary with location and therapist availability. People typically begin by answering a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session. Gabriel aims to create a respectful, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through immediate problems and plan realistic steps forward.
Gabriel lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Gabriel works with
The areas below are the ones Gabriel selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- 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
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Gabriel’s approaches work online
Gabriel uses attachment-based work to trace how past relationships shape current patterns, helping people notice repeated reactions and try different ways of relating. This is useful for people who struggle with trust, closeness or recurring conflicts.He also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours. CBT is practical for anxiety, low mood, sleeping problems and compulsive habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Gabriel will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt methods collaboratively as sessions progress. That means trying a few ways of working and keeping what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible options: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when a camera is not wanted, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing notes and reflections. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and mobility needs, while giving people choice over how they communicate with their therapist.
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