Gillian Cooper, BACP

Gillian Cooper is a UK-based therapist with nine years of professional experience working with adults and young people across a range of settings. She combines clinical and counselling skills to address issues such as stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, family conflict, bereavement, trauma and abuse, panic, low self-esteem, addictions, changes in sleeping and eating, and sexual problems. Her background includes work in a trauma organisation for women and young girls, private care, MIND UK, and NHS hospital bereavement services, and she has supported neuro-divergent clients, people in crisis, and those presenting with challenging behaviours.

As a counselling tutor, Gillian has delivered training up to Level 4 and has guided learners in defining life purpose, setting career goals, building resilience, and developing confidence and negotiation skills. She describes her approach as a blend of therapy and counselling - using short-term, solution-focused counselling techniques when clients need practical, here-and-now strategies, and drawing on longer-term psychoanalytical therapy to explore how past experiences may shape present patterns.

She holds the credential BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and can incorporate Biblical principles and Christian values into her work when requested. Gillian emphasises collaborative work, helping clients construct a personalised roadmap for therapy and supporting them to reach their goals. She is not currently accepting new clients.