About Gill
Gill Brown is a counsellor with 20 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship difficulties, grief and a broad range of life challenges. She also helps with issues such as addiction, intimacy concerns, sleep and eating problems, parenting pressures and workplace stress.
Her approach is calm and open. She aims to create a space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about without judgement.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort level, so someone can take the first steps at a rate that feels safe. Gill uses a mix of practical talking therapies alongside body-aware methods. She draws on somatic work to help people notice how feelings sit in the body, and on therapies that look at patterns in relationships and thinking.
This combination can help people understand repeated reactions and try new ways of coping. Her practice includes techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive-behavioural approaches to help with unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Attachment-based and client-centred ways of working guide sessions towards greater self-awareness and connection.
Gill has particular experience supporting people affected by domestic abuse, homicide and crime-related trauma. She also works with clients coping with chronic illness, bereavement, adoption and foster care issues, and those exploring identity concerns such as LGBT matters. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients.
Gill is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Working online with somatic and present-focused therapies
Gill blends somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed ways of working. Somatic approaches encourage people to notice physical sensations linked to emotions and to use breath and movement to regulate strong states. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people live by their values while allowing difficult thoughts and feelings to be present without struggling with them. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people try new ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and happens together. The therapist will talk through what feels most useful for the person, try different methods and adjust plans as goals and needs change. This makes the work collaborative and tailored to each individual.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and health demands and to continue care when travel is difficult. Many people find the flexibility helpful for keeping momentum between sessions and for using techniques in real-life moments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English