About Gina
Gina Zyla is a counsellor with a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and 14 years of practice experience. She holds a BACP credential, and she focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression and trauma-related difficulties. Gina offers a calm, accepting presence and aims to make the first steps feel manageable.
Gina takes a person-led approach. Sessions centre on what the client brings and what they want to change. She draws on a mix of approaches so conversations stay practical and based on the client's needs.
How Gina works
People are encouraged to notice small changes and build new coping strategies. Her background includes long experience supporting people through loss and trauma. Gina uses trauma-focused methods alongside psychodynamic and existential ideas to help explore how past events shape current reactions.
Cognitive techniques are used when clients want tools to manage thoughts and emotions in day-to-day life. She also supports concerns around relationships, self-esteem, grief, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, and work-related stress. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness, addiction, and caregiver stress.
Sessions aim to make those problems clearer and more manageable. Gina adapts the pace to each person. She uses conversational work, reflective exploration, and practical skill-building.
Her style is patient and non-judgemental, helping clients find what works for them over time. Sessions are available in English and offered to international clients as well.
Gina lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Gina works with
The areas below are the ones Gina selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you might meet online and what they do
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on making space for the person's own perspective. The counsellor reflects back what is said, helping the person feel heard and to make choices that fit their life. It is useful for uncertainty, low self-esteem and when someone needs support to find direction.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical techniques to notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours. It is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating difficulties when people want tools to manage day-to-day symptoms.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding how distressing events affect feelings and reactions now. It combines careful pacing with strategies to strengthen coping and reduce the power of traumatic memories in everyday life.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and will adapt methods as needed. That collaborative approach helps shape a plan that fits the individual's needs rather than sticking to a single method.
Online sessions let people access counselling in flexible ways. Video calls approximate face-to-face contact, phone sessions suit those with limited bandwidth, live chat allows shorter check-ins and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and mobility constraints while keeping the therapeutic work focused and practical.
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