About Jyotsana
Jyotsana Gilmore draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred work to help people facing stress and anxiety. She is a counsellor with BACP and NCPS credentials and more than 11 years of experience across India and the United Kingdom. Jyotsana writes simply and directly to make first steps feel less daunting.
She focuses on everyday problems that can feel overwhelming. That includes relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, grief and difficulty coping with life changes.
How Jyotsana works
She also supports people managing addictions, sleeping or eating concerns, and career-related stress. Her style is calm and down-to-earth. Sessions aim to build trust and let people talk through thoughts and feelings without fear of being judged.
Practical tools and short exercises are used when helpful, alongside talking and reflection. Jyotsana has worked in different cultural settings, which informs how she frames concerns and suggests strategies. She aims to respect each person’s background while keeping the work focused and achievable.
People meet her to work on specific goals such as improving communication, managing strong emotions, reducing anxiety symptoms, or rebuilding confidence after loss. She explains options and helps choose approaches that fit each person’s pace and preferences.
Jyotsana lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Jyotsana works with
The areas below are the ones Jyotsana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Jyotsana’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take steps towards those values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving, which often helps with anxiety, low mood and sleeping or eating difficulties. Client-Centred Therapy prioritises a warm, non-judgemental space where clients lead the conversation and the therapist reflects and supports their process.Finding the right approach is something the therapist and client work out together. Jyotsana discusses goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. That collaborative planning means sessions can blend methods and adjust as needs change over time.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are close to face-to-face meetings and suit in-depth work, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or cameras are limited, live chat lets people check in quickly, and text-based messaging can support shorter updates or when pausing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments, while keeping continuity between appointments.
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