About Gwennie
Gwennie Lewis offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship strain. She aims to make talking about difficult feelings less daunting and helps clients spot patterns that link past experiences to present behaviour. Gwennie writes plainly and listens with warmth so people feel heard and respected from the first conversation.
She uses a mix of psychotherapy, client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to keep sessions straightforward and useful.
How Gwennie works
That means exploring what matters most to the client, trying small changes in thinking or behaviour, and reflecting on how earlier events shape current choices. Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer emotional understanding rather than jargon. Gwennie has worked in the United Kingdom for six years as an integrative counselling psychotherapist.
Her experience includes supporting people with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and foster care challenges, depression, bipolar, anxiety, addictions and grief. She also helps with sleep problems, anger, work stress and life transitions. Outside therapy she paints, watches films and has a history of community involvement, including roles on school and charity boards.
She was a foster mother for around ten years, which informed her understanding of adoption and foster care concerns. Gwennie holds a Level 5 Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, a Level 3 Certificate in Integrated Counselling and a Level 3 Diploma in Psychoanalytical Psychology.
She has a Certificate in CBT for depression, anxiety, panic attacks and phobias and is a member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS).
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What Gwennie works with
The areas below are the ones Gwennie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape emotional patterns today. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to help people notice how attachment styles affect intimacy, trust and communication. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. In an online session this can mean setting simple experiments between appointments and reviewing what did or did not help.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful. Together they decide whether to emphasise reflective exploration, practical CBT tasks or a mix of methods as therapy progresses.
Online formats offer flexibility and different ways to engage. Video calls let people see facial cues and hold a longer conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, day-to-day coping notes or people who find typing easier than talking. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt each format so the focus stays on clear, practical progress.
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