Gillian Cooper
Compassionate, practical therapy for life’s challenges
About Gillian
Gillian Cooper welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to begin. She makes a clear, practical space for clients to talk about stress, grief, anxiety and difficult life changes. Gillian writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person.
She uses a mix of therapy and counselling approaches to suit different needs. Short-term counselling focuses on day-to-day coping and solving immediate problems. Longer-term therapy looks at earlier life patterns that can affect how someone feels now.
Background and approach
Gillian has nine years of professional experience in mental health settings across the United Kingdom. Her background includes work with bereavement services in hospitals, a trauma organisation for women and young girls, MIND UK, and personal care. She has also taught counselling up to Level 4 and supported learners with career and personal development goals.
Common themes she addresses include relationship difficulties, family problems, addictions, sleep and eating changes, low self-esteem, anger, and parenting strains. Gillian also supports people dealing with trauma, abuse, bereavement and compassion fatigue. She can bring Christian values into sessions when a client wishes to include them.
Her practice uses approaches such as attachment-focused work, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural methods and psychodynamic thinking. Sessions are tailored to individual goals and paced to each person’s needs. Gillian aims to help clients build clearer plans for change and greater day-to-day resilience.
What Gillian works with
How Gillian works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people who notice repeated difficulties in trust, closeness or emotional responses in relationships by exploring connection and security. Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the session. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps the client find their own solutions and clarity. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, low mood and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs, and together they will decide which methods to try first. Work is collaborative, so methods can be adjusted as progress and feedback emerge.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows. Phone sessions are helpful when being on camera is difficult or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit those who prefer written check-ins or need to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and adapt therapy to everyday 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
