Gillian Robins, BACP

Gillian Robins is a counsellor with five years' experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, intimacy concerns and low self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with trauma, panic, obsessive thoughts, body image worries and self-harm. Gillian names Thoughts and everyday habits as a focus and works with the everyday patterns that keep problems repeating.

She uses a trauma-informed stance influenced by the ideas of Dr Gabor Maté, looking at how early life can shape feelings and behaviour. In sessions she helps people notice the thoughts and habits that maintain distress, and then tries gentle, practical ways to shift them. The emphasis is on understanding why patterns began rather than on blame.

Gillian aims to make sessions feel open and compassionate. She invites people to talk about thoughts and feelings without fear of judgement and to take small steps they can practise between meetings. That practical focus often helps clients feel less stuck.

She works with process addictions such as problematic use of porn, exercise or gambling alongside other addictive behaviours. She also supports people facing codependency, attachment struggles and communication problems within relationships.

Gillian is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, known as BACP. She offers work in English from the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. To begin, people use the site Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

Approaches that focus on thoughts and early experience

Gillian describes a trauma-informed way of working that pays attention to how early experiences shape current feelings and habits. This approach looks at the roots of reactions and helps people link past experiences to present-day patterns in a way that can reduce shame and blame.

She also centres on changing everyday thoughts and habits. This means noticing recurring thoughts, testing them gently, and trying new small behaviours between sessions to break unhelpful cycles. That practical emphasis can help with anxiety, panic, obsessive thinking and process addictions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gillian works collaboratively to match methods to each person's needs, goals and preferences, and she reviews what is or isn't helping as therapy continues.

The therapist's biography does not specify session formats here, so please confirm the available online or in-person options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around a busy life, reduce travel time and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. Registered or accredited professionals can also adapt pacing and tasks so sessions fit into everyday routines rather than requiring major upheaval.