Rob Millist, BACP, NCPS

Rob Millist is a United Kingdom based therapist with seven years of experience supporting people through a wide range of life challenges. He combines professional training and a compassionate style to help clients build confidence, manage stress and anxiety, and work through relationship, family and trauma-related concerns. He holds BACP and NCPS credentials - professional registrations that indicate recognised training and ongoing commitment to professional standards. Rob has worked in one-to-one and corporate settings and has provided regular counselling for organisations including Youthline UK, Mind and PAWS, bringing practical experience from both agency and private practice.

Rob uses a head-and-heart approach that aims to make clients feel welcome and empowered from the first contact. He offers grounding techniques and practical coping strategies alongside reflective exploration of thoughts, feelings and patterns. His areas of work include stress and anxiety, LGBT issues, anger, self-esteem, career and addictions, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, parenting, bipolar and depression, ADHD, and support for coping with life changes. He also focuses on attachment and abandonment issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome, BDSM and kink, body image, chronic illness and pain, communication problems, dissociation, domestic violence, and related areas.

Appointments are available on Tuesdays and on Thursday afternoons over the summer, with Tuesday slots between 9am and 9pm UK time. Regular sessions are 45 minutes long and the initial session is 50 minutes to review presenting issues, set goals and discuss the monthly Wellbeing Score that Rob uses to track progress. In addition to scheduled sessions, he reviews client messages and voicenotes during the week. Prospective clients can expect a collaborative process where pace and priorities are set together to help them move toward their goals.

Therapeutic approaches and online working

Rob commonly draws on attachment-based therapy, client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. Attachment-based work explores how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people address difficulties linked to abandonment, security and intimacy. Client-centered therapy places the person at the centre of the process - the therapist offers empathic, nonjudgemental support so clients can explore their values, feelings and choices at their own pace. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical techniques to manage anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Rob treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients decide which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility around work, family and other commitments. These options make it easier to access consistent support from registered professionals without travel, and they allow different ways to communicate so clients can choose the format that feels most comfortable for them.