Gillian Robins
Compassionate, trauma-informed counselling
About Gillian
Gillian Robins helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, low mood, trauma, self-esteem and intimacy-related struggles. She also supports people dealing with relationship longing, obsessive feelings, body image and codependency. Gillian is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration.
She has five years of professional experience working with these kinds of concerns. Her practice is trauma-informed and shaped by ideas from Dr Gabor Maté about how early experiences influence emotional patterns.
Background and approach
Gillian aims to help people notice the reasons behind repeated behaviours so they can begin to change them. She uses straightforward language and practical conversation in sessions. Gillian creates a warm, non-judgemental space for people to talk about difficult feelings and urges.
She focuses on listening carefully, helping clients make sense of their thoughts, and supporting small, manageable steps forward. Sessions are paced to suit each person’s needs. She also draws on her personal experience with limerence to understand how consuming attraction and emotional dependency can feel.
That lived perspective informs how she addresses obsessive patterns, process addictions, isolation and shame in the therapy room. People who choose Gillian can expect collaborative work on communication problems, attachment issues, impulsivity, panic and post-traumatic stress. She supports practical strategies alongside emotional understanding to help reduce distress and build self-compassion.
What Gillian works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Gillian works from a trauma-informed perspective that pays attention to how early experiences shape current emotions and reactions. This approach helps people who carry distress from past events and who notice repeated patterns in relationships and behaviour.She also uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help manage anxiety, panic and obsessive thoughts. These techniques often involve learning skills to slow down racing thoughts, reduce compulsive urges and practise short exercises that break unhelpful cycles. Such work can be helpful for process addictions, panic attacks and obsessive-compulsive tendencies.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself. Gillian collaborates with each person to identify what fits their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts methods over time, checking in about what feels useful and what should change so the work stays relevant and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
