Gayle Nykerk-Jones
Practical, calm support for life's hard moments
About Gayle
Gayle Nykerk-Jones offers calm, straightforward support for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and addictions. She explains things simply and matches conversations to each person’s needs. Gayle aims to make the first steps feel manageable and less overwhelming.
With a Bachelor-level BACP credential and a decade of counselling experience in the United Kingdom, Gayle works with a wide range of concerns. She has helped people manage attention and concentration difficulties, ADHD, and late-diagnosed autism in adults.
Background and approach
Her practice also covers relationship strain, intimacy challenges, sleep and eating problems, and issues linked to chronic illness and caregiving. Her approach combines practical skills and reflective work. Gayle uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and behavioural experiments to test changes.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live by their values despite difficult feelings. Attachment-based ideas inform how Gayle looks at relationship patterns and past hurt. Dialectical behaviour therapy methods are used for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming.
The overall tone is client-centred, with the person’s priorities guiding sessions. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs. Gayle supports people through grief, career shifts, burnout and long-term conditions with steady, practical steps.
She aims to help people build clearer routines and more manageable ways of coping. To begin, Gayle invites people to describe what matters most to them and to set realistic goals together. She adapts pace and tasks so progress feels achievable rather than rushed.
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on small steps that match what matters to you, which can help with anxiety, depression and life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. It gives practical exercises and experiments to test new ways of behaving, which can ease symptoms of anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with you about goals, preferences and what feels workable. Together you will choose or blend methods so the sessions suit your needs and pace.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to give options that fit busy lives. Video is useful when you want fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit quick updates, brief check-ins or when writing helps organise thoughts.
These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care across changes in routine, location or energy levels while working toward clear, practical goals with a registered or accredited professional.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
