About Gail
Gail Rickaby helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She offers support for relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, addictions and grief. Gail works with concerns such as anger, intimacy issues and coping with life changes.
She is based in the United Kingdom and practises in English. Gail uses an attachment-based approach to examine how early relationships affect current patterns. She also draws on client-centred methods that place the person’s experiences and choices at the heart of sessions.
How Gail works
Solution-focused techniques are used to build small, workable steps toward change. Sessions are aimed at making problems feel more manageable. Gail listens and helps people identify practical strategies they can try between meetings.
She pays attention to issues like control, guilt, shame, jealousy and isolation that commonly complicate progress. Her practice also addresses trauma-related concerns including post-traumatic stress and sexual assault and abuse. For process addictions such as gambling, exercise or pornography, she helps people map out triggers and safer routines.
Multicultural concerns and prejudice are also acknowledged in therapy conversations. Gail holds BACP registration, which is noted on her profile. She has around eight years of professional experience working with these issues.
To begin, clients use a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Gail lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Gail works with
The areas below are the ones Gail 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
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Gail’s approaches work in online sessions
Gail uses attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps when worries about trust, closeness or repeated conflicts keep coming up. Client-centred therapy gives the person space to tell their story in their own way while the counsellor follows their lead and reflects what matters most. Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Gail will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. That makes the work collaborative and tailored rather than one-size-fits-all. Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option if bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, quick reflections between sessions or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines and to stick with useful practices between meetings.Start online instead of waiting
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