Gayle Shingler
Warm person-centred counsellor offering practical support
About Gayle
Gayle Shingler is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She takes a straightforward, respectful approach and aims to make the first step easier for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck. Gayle works with concerns such as stress and anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and trauma.
She also helps with relationship challenges, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, career questions, and neurodiversity-related challenges such as ADHD and autism.
Background and approach
Her additional focus includes matters like adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, and coping after separation or domestic violence. Her style is person-centred. That means conversations start from the client’s priorities and move at their pace.
Gayle adapts what she does to fit each person rather than following a fixed formula. Sessions aim to build confidence, increase coping options, and reduce patterns that cause distress. Gayle describes her work as sensitive and compassionate.
She tailors discussion and plans to each person’s needs and circumstances. Practical steps and supportive conversation are mixed to help people regain a sense of choice and direction. People come to her for help with life changes, motivation, low self-esteem, and complex histories like trauma or abandonment.
Her approach is direct but caring, focused on making small, manageable changes that add up over time.
What Gayle works with
Sessions & fees
Practical approaches for online support
Gayle uses a person-centred way of working that keeps the client's priorities at the centre of each session. This approach focuses on understanding the person and responding with empathy, helping people make choices and regain confidence after stress or trauma.She also draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques as needed to address specific problems. For example, structured coping skills can teach ways to manage anxiety and mood swings, while trauma-informed strategies help people process painful experiences at a pace they can handle. These techniques are chosen to match the concern rather than imposed from the start.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Gayle will collaborate with each person to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. The plan can change as progress is made or as priorities shift, so the process stays flexible and client-led.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video lets people read visual cues during deeper conversations, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or daily life.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
