Online Counselling for stress, anxiety and grief based in Yorkshire.

Hi, I'm Gill.

For over twenty years I've worked alongside children, young people, and adults, supporting them through the moments when life becomes heavy or confusing. It's work I find deeply meaningful - and not just professionally. My path into counselling was shaped by my own experiences of trauma, workplace anxiety, overwhelm, grief, and periods of low mood. Those times taught me, on a very human level, how much it matters to have someone beside you who genuinely listens without judgement, without agenda, and without rushing you toward an answer.

That understanding led me to retrain in 2019. My training has a psychodynamic foundation, which deepened my understanding of how our earlier experiences can continue to influence us, often in ways we don't immediately recognise. I’m particularly interested in what sits beneath the difficulties we experience – the patterns we develop, the ways we learn to respond to the world, and how these can shape our relationships, confidence and sense of ourselves.

Over the years, I’ve developed a real interest in understanding the whole person rather than simply focusing on the problem they bring to therapy. Sometimes what we are struggling with in the present makes much more sense when we begin to understand where it has come from. Equally, understanding ourselves can create space to make different choices and find ways of living that feel more manageable and more true to who we are.