Sally Gardner
Support for stress, relationships and trauma
About Sally
Sally Gardner helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious or low in self‑esteem. She supports those dealing with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, addiction, grief and changes like separation or career shifts. Sally also works with issues around eating, sleeping, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation. Sally keeps sessions straightforward and calm. She listens for patterns from the past that can affect current behaviour, then helps clients try different ways of relating and coping.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and paced to each person, with space to look at painful memories when that feels right. Her approach draws on several established methods. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is used to spot and shift unhelpful thinking and behaviour. Attachment‑based ideas and client‑centred skills shape how she works with relationship and intimacy issues. Over seven years of practice, Sally has supported people facing a wide range of challenges including bipolar and depression, domestic violence aftermath, addiction, and body image issues.
She pays attention to how abandonment or attachment wounds show up in everyday life. Sessions can be by video, phone, live chat or messaging. International clients who speak English are welcome.
To begin, pick Start Therapy, complete a short matching questionnaire, and book a time that suits you.
What Sally works with
How Sally works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting those thoughts control their actions. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by focusing on values and small steps forward. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going and teaches practical exercises to change them, which often helps with low mood, worry and sleep troubles. Attachment‑based therapy explores how early bonds affect current relationships and intimacy, helping people understand patterns like avoidance or fear of abandonment.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, suggest options, and try methods that fit your needs. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made if something does not feel helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how you meet. Video calls let you read facial cues and work more like an in‑person session. Phone sessions can suit those with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text‑based messaging are useful for shorter check‑ins, written reflection, or fitting counselling into a busy day. These options make it easier to continue therapy around work, travel or different time zones while working with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
