About Gillian
Gillian Cooper offers practical, down-to-earth support for adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and other life pressures. She speaks plainly and focuses on what can help now, while exploring underlying patterns that keep problems repeating. Gillian works with each person to set clear goals and find routes forward that fit their life.
She uses a mix of short-term counselling and deeper therapy. In counselling she concentrates on present-day coping and quick ways to manage feelings and routines.
How Gillian works
In longer-term therapy she looks at the back story to understand how past experiences shape current behaviour and relationships. Gillian has nine years of experience in a range of settings, including mental health services, bereavement support and community organisations.
She has supported people affected by trauma, abuse, addiction and major life changes, and has experience with neuro-divergent clients and those in crisis situations. Her background includes work with bereavement services in hospital settings, mental health charities and personal care, and she has taught counselling up to Level 4.
She also draws on her faith when invited, integrating Christian values or Biblical perspectives into sessions if the client wishes. Gillian is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, which is recorded as her professional credential.
She offers therapy to adults in the United Kingdom and conducts sessions in English by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and time is scheduled according to therapist availability.
Gillian lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Gillian often draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness. This approach helps when difficulties involve fear of abandonment, attachment issues or repeating relationship patterns.She also uses client-centred methods that prioritise the person’s experience and pace. That means conversations focus on what matters most to the client and the therapist follows their lead to build confidence and self-understanding.
Finding the best approach is part of the process and Gillian treats it as a collaboration. She will discuss goals and preferences, try different ways of working and adjust the plan as understanding grows so the approach fits the client's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual connection helps the work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging allows ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity while working on relationships, grief, anxiety and other concerns.
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