About Gwennie
Gwennie Lewis is a down-to-earth counsellor who aims to help people gain confidence in naming and managing difficult feelings. She makes space for honest conversation and helps clients link past experiences with present concerns. Gwennie uses clear, straightforward language and a warm demeanour to make the first steps feel less daunting.
She draws on somatic ideas alongside attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to help clients notice what their body and emotions are telling them.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused ideas are also used when helpful to unpack patterns and try new responses. Sessions focus on small practical steps as well as deeper understanding. Gwennie has worked in the United Kingdom for six years as an integrative counselling psychotherapist.
Her background includes training in psychotherapeutic counselling, integrated counselling and psychoanalytical psychology, plus certificates in cognitive behavioural approaches for anxiety and depression. Clients consult her about relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, low self‑esteem, stress, anxiety, grief, sleeping problems, addiction concerns and career issues. She also supports people dealing with attachment issues, abandonment, foster care and the stresses of caregiving.
Her style is accepting and non-judgemental. Gwennie aims to build mutual trust so clients feel heard as well as listened to. Outside work she paints, watches films and has volunteered on school and community boards, and she has experience as a foster mother.
Gwennie holds NCPS membership, and she frames therapy as a collaborative journey in which clients decide the steps that feel right for them.
How Gwennie’s approaches work online
Gwennie blends somatic ideas with attachment-based and client-centred approaches to help people notice how their body and relationships affect feeling and behaviour. Somatic work encourages gentle attention to bodily sensations that often hold emotional material, which can help with trauma, stress and anxiety. Attachment-based work looks at patterns formed in close relationships and is useful for concerns about trust, intimacy and communication. Client-centred therapy focuses on acceptance and empathic listening so clients can explore feelings at their own pace.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. Gwennie works together with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful, adapting as goals and needs change. This collaborative process aims to make therapy feel practical and relevant rather than prescriptive.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats allow people to fit sessions around work, family and mobility needs while staying connected from home. The variety of online options also means different ways to communicate, whether someone prefers face-to-face conversation, quick text check-ins or phone conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English