Gemma Pyatt-Lonczyk
Calm, flexible counselling to make sense of life changes
About Gemma
Gemma Pyatt-Lonczyk is a counsellor who uses an integrative, person-centred way of working. She focuses on helping people understand themselves better and find clearer ways forward when life feels overwhelming. Gemma aims to make sessions feel calm and respectful so people can talk openly about what matters to them.
She blends different evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. That flexibility means Gemma can offer practical ways to manage stress and anxiety, and to think about relationships, grief, and depression in new ways.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve looking at current coping patterns and trying small changes to see what helps. Gemma has four years of experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP. Her background includes working in a hospice setting where she provided palliative care counselling and bereavement support.
That work gives her experience with anticipatory grief and end-of-life matters, which she draws on when supporting people facing loss or major life change. People often come to Gemma feeling lost, overwhelmed, or unsure about next steps. She listens without judgement and offers different perspectives to help people make sense of difficult feelings.
Her style emphasises collaboration and gentle challenge rather than quick fixes. Sessions are offered in English and are available across the United Kingdom. Gemma works with a broad range of issues including stress, relationship difficulties, coping with life changes, and chronic health concerns.
She keeps learning through professional development to maintain reflective and ethical practice.
What Gemma works with
Sessions & fees
Evidence-informed approaches and online counselling
Gemma uses an integrative approach that draws on well-established therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person. Person-centred work focuses on listening, empathy and helping people feel heard while they make sense of difficult emotions. This approach is useful for grief, depression and relationship concerns because it helps people explore feelings at their own pace.She also applies practical, evidence-based strategies to manage stress and anxiety. These techniques often involve noticing unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavioural changes to reduce distress. When working with chronic illness or caregiver stress, Gemma blends emotional support with problem-solving steps to help everyday life feel more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process and is decided collaboratively. The therapist will discuss options, check what feels helpful, and adjust methods to match the client's goals and preferences. That means therapy can become more skills-focused or more reflective depending on what the person needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules. Video is useful for deeper weekly sessions, phone calls suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can help people keep momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives across the United Kingdom.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
