Gabriel (Gabor) Bene
Calm, practical help for life and relationships
About Gabriel
Gabriel (Gabor) Bene welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief or big life changes. He aims to make the first steps simple and clear, and offers steady support while someone learns new ways to manage feelings and relationships. Gabriel uses everyday language and practical conversations to help people feel understood and clearer about what to try next.
Gabriel is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
He has six years of experience working with a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar difficulties, trauma and abuse, addictions, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. He also supports people facing career pressure, parenting strains, sleep or eating problems, and the strain of caregiving. His way of working combines attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening and cognitive behavioural tools.
Sessions focus on identifying patterns that cause pain and testing small changes that might help. Gabriel aims for practical steps people can use between sessions as well as time to talk and reflect. He also pays attention to specific themes such as abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, neurodiversity, and relationship communication problems.
This means conversations can cover both immediate coping and longer-term patterns that affect wellbeing. Sessions are offered in English and can take place by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a short questionnaire and books a time that works for them.
What Gabriel works with
How Gabriel works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how early experiences shape current reactions. It helps people understand why certain situations feel threatening and how to try new ways of connecting.Client-centred therapy centres on being heard without judgement. The counsellor offers empathic, non-directive support so people can explore their own solutions at their own pace.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises to test unhelpful thinking and develop coping strategies for anxiety, depression, sleep problems and more.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Gabriel will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest approaches that fit those aims. The choice of method is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy around work and family life. Video calls let people talk face to face, phone sessions can be quicker or use less bandwidth, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady support.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
