Gemma Pyatt-Lonczyk, BACP

Gemma Pyatt-Lonczyk is an integrative counsellor who combines training and experience to support people through stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, depression, and major life changes. She creates a calm, non-judgmental space that encourages clients to explore their feelings and make sense of current struggles. Gemma emphasizes the therapeutic relationship as the foundation for meaningful change, believing that feeling heard and understood is central to progress.

Her integrative approach allows her to draw on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapt them to each person she works with, offering different perspectives to help clients view past and present experiences in new ways. Gemma’s background includes work in a hospice setting, where she provided palliative care counselling, anticipatory grief support, and bereavement care. That experience informs her practice across a wide variety of presenting issues, especially when established coping strategies no longer feel helpful.

She maintains a commitment to ongoing professional reflection and development to ensure her practice remains responsive and effective. Gemma holds BACP, a professional counselling association, which reflects her engagement with recognised standards in the field.

Integrative and Grief-Informed Care Delivered Online

Gemma practices an integrative model, which means she blends techniques from evidence-based therapeutic approaches to suit each person’s needs. This flexible way of working can include exploring thoughts and behaviours that contribute to stress and anxiety, and developing practical strategies to manage everyday challenges.

She also draws on bereavement and palliative counselling skills gained in hospice work, offering sensitive support for anticipatory grief, loss, and the complex emotions that follow life-changing events. That experience helps when people feel overwhelmed, uncertain, or unable to rely on previous coping methods.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Gemma will work with clients to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, adjusting techniques as therapy progresses so the care remains well suited to the individual.

Online therapy with Gemma is available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing for flexible scheduling and access from home or elsewhere. These options make it easier to fit therapeutic work into a busy life and to maintain continuity of care when in-person sessions are not possible.