About Gillian
Gillian Burnett is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years' experience. She works online and meets people by video, phone, live chat or text to talk through worries and difficult life events. Gillian uses straightforward, compassionate language and aims to make sessions feel manageable for someone visiting on a phone or in a short break.
Gillian follows a person-centred way of working that puts the client's perspective first.
How Gillian works
This means she listens closely and helps people find their own path rather than giving instructions. She also draws on trauma-focused methods when past harm affects daily life and on cognitive behavioural techniques to help adjust unhelpful thinking and behaviours. In sessions Gillian helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and coping with life changes.
She also supports people facing addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, career worries and depression. Additional areas she works with include ADHD, attachment and adoption-related concerns, chronic illness and caregiver stress. Gillian is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and offers practical, empathetic support rather than a one-size-fits-all routine.
She encourages honest, steady work and will provide practical advice when it is requested. Therapy with Gillian is a collaborative process. She asks clients to be honest about goals and to try tasks between sessions when appropriate.
Her approach suits people who want a calm, respectful space to untangle emotions and make small, manageable changes.
Gillian lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Gillian works with
The areas below are the ones Gillian selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Gillian's approaches work online
Gillian commonly uses Client-Centred Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Client-Centred Therapy is based on listening carefully and helping people find their own solutions rather than being told what to do; it suits people who need space to process feelings. Trauma-Focused Therapy helps when past harm keeps affecting day-to-day life, guiding people to work through painful memories at a pace that feels manageable. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and supports practical steps to reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Gillian will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. She treats the choice of method as a joint decision and adapts it as progress is made.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client see one another and read non-verbal cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or the client prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, flexible scheduling and when someone needs to write through thoughts between sessions. These options aim to make regular work possible without long travel or timetable disruptions.
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