Gillian Macmillan
Compassionate, practical support for life’s challenges
About Gillian
Gillian Macmillan is a counsellor with seven years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS as a credential and focuses on practical help for everyday problems. Gillian aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and supportive.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. She also supports those coping with addictions, grief, sleep or eating difficulties, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Additional areas of focus include ADHD, anger, career concerns, parenting strain, compassion fatigue and process addictions such as gambling or exercise. Gillian uses evidence-informed talking approaches to help people notice what matters to them and change unhelpful patterns. She encourages honest conversation and respects each person's pace.
Sessions are straightforward and geared towards real-life steps someone can try between meetings. Her style is warm and non-judgemental. Gillian works to create an environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without fear.
She balances practical coping ideas with attention to deeper emotional concerns. People who value clear suggestions and a collaborative relationship tend to find her helpful. She also offers support around intimacy-related issues, infidelity and jealousy, postpartum depression and self-harm, using approaches that match the individual’s needs.
What Gillian works with
How Gillian works
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Sessions & fees
How Gillian’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice their values and take small steps towards them. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts while committing to meaningful actions, which can help with anxiety, depression and stress-related concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect. It uses practical exercises and experiments to shift unhelpful patterns, useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gillian will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. This collaborative process helps make sure therapy stays relevant to daily life.
Online sessions can be booked as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversational feel, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and messaging can support ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
| 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
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
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)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
