Gillian Robins, BACP

Gillian Robins is a UK-credentialed therapist with five years of professional experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and relational challenges. She works with stress and anxiety, addictions, family conflict, motivation struggles, low self-esteem, confidence issues, depression, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. She also offers informed support for attachment difficulties, body image concerns, codependency, communication problems, process addictions, and related areas that can feel isolating and overwhelming.

Gillian brings both personal and professional experience to her work with limerence, recognising how confusing, consuming, and painful obsessive attraction can be. Her practice is trauma-informed and shaped by the ideas of Dr Gabor Maté on how early life experiences influence emotional patterns. By exploring the reasons behind habitual responses, she helps clients open space for meaningful change rather than simply managing symptoms.

Clients can expect a compassionate, nonjudgmental atmosphere where thoughts and feelings are invited and explored with care. Gillian honours the courage it takes to begin therapy and treats the decision to seek help as an important first step in a collaborative process. She is registered with the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which indicates professional standards and membership of a recognised UK counselling body.

Trauma-Informed and Attachment-Aware Online Support

Gillian uses a trauma-informed approach that pays attention to how past experiences shape present thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. This approach helps people who have experienced stress, trauma, or relational wounds to understand patterns and begin gentle, sustainable change. She also integrates attachment-focused work that explores early relationship dynamics and how they influence current intimacy, trust, and communication - useful for issues like codependency, intimacy-related struggles, and family conflict.

Alongside these, Gillian applies evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs, drawing on methods that are shown to help with anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviours, and addictions. She frames therapy as a collaborative process - the therapist and client work together to identify goals, try different approaches, and find the right fit based on symptoms, life context, and personal preferences.

Online therapy with Gillian is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for people with busy schedules or those in different locations. Working with registered professionals in this way can make ongoing support more accessible and easier to fit into daily life while preserving the therapeutic focus needed for meaningful progress.