About Gillian
Gillian Robins helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship struggles, low self-esteem and the fallout of past trauma. She works with concerns such as family conflict, intimacy-related issues, depression and self-harm. Gillian is a BACP counsellor practicing in the United Kingdom with five years of experience.
She draws on a trauma-informed stance and ideas influenced by the work of Dr Gabor Maté to look at how early life affects current feelings and behaviour.
How Gillian works
In sessions she focuses on understanding the reasons behind patterns, because seeing the ’why’ often makes change feel possible. Gillian aims to offer a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about painful or confusing experiences. She pays attention to attachment and how it shapes closeness, boundaries and codependent rhythms.
Practical conversation is paired with gentle reflection to help people make changes they can keep. She also supports people dealing with compulsive behaviours and process addictions, body image concerns, obsessive thoughts, panic attacks and post-traumatic stress. Work can involve looking at coping habits, reducing shame, and building self-compassion and healthier ways of relating to others.
Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged online for clients in different places. Gillian encourages small steps and collaborates with each person to set realistic goals and ways of measuring progress.
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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
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
Approaches that inform online sessions
Gillian draws on trauma-informed practice to help people notice how early experiences shape current feelings and behaviours. This involves identifying unhelpful patterns and learning gentler ways to respond to difficult emotions, which can help with anxiety, panic and post-traumatic stress.She also works with ideas influenced by Dr Gabor Maté that focus on understanding the origins of addictive or compulsive behaviour. That approach helps when people want to reduce shame around process addictions or compulsions and build new coping options.
Choosing the right way of working is a collaborative process. Gillian will discuss options and tailor the approach to a person’s needs, goals and preferences rather than sticking to a single method. Together the therapist and client agree on goals and small steps to measure progress.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer written reflection. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work from different locations.
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