Gillian Cooper, BACP

Gillian Cooper is a licensed therapist in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience working with adults and young people across organisations and in private practice. She holds BACP, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and brings a breadth of clinical experience to work with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, bereavement, addictions, and changes in sleeping or eating patterns.

Her background includes roles in a trauma organisation for women and young girls, private care, MIND UK, and NHS hospital bereavement services, giving her practical experience across community and healthcare settings. She has supported people in crisis, neuro-divergent adults and young people, those presenting with challenging behaviours, and individuals affected by various forms of abuse and vulnerability.

Alongside clinical practice, Gillian has worked as a counselling tutor delivering up to Level 4 qualifications and supporting learners to define career goals, increase inner confidence, structure their lives, and build resilience. She combines short-term, solution-focused counselling with longer-term psychotherapeutic work that explores past experiences to understand current patterns and root causes.

Gillian describes her work as collaborative and personalised; she aims to make each client her primary concern, to co-construct a clear road map for therapy, and to offer approaches that may incorporate Biblical principles and Christian values when requested, while respecting and embracing diversity in all forms.

Approach-Focused Therapy Delivered Online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of relating to others. It helps people who struggle with closeness, abandonment fears, or patterns of insecure connection by exploring relationship history and building more secure ways of relating.

Client-Centered Therapy puts the client's experience at the heart of the work, offering a non-directive, empathic space where a person’s own insights and strengths guide change. This approach suits those seeking support with self-esteem, life transitions, and personal decision-making.

Psychodynamic Therapy explores how past experiences and unconscious patterns influence present feelings and behaviours. It can be helpful for people wanting deeper understanding of long-standing patterns, relationship difficulties, or emotional responses rooted in earlier life events.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Gillian works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Registered professionals and therapists may integrate or adapt approaches over time as therapy progresses.

Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it practical to access therapy from different locations and at times that fit a busy life. These options support continuity of care, flexible scheduling, and easier access for those balancing work, family, or mobility considerations.