Gillian Cooper , BACP

Gillian Cooper is a UK-based licensed therapist with nine years of professional experience supporting adults and young people across a range of services and private practice settings. She holds BACP credentials - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and has worked in trauma-focused organisations for women and girls, private care, MIND UK, and NHS hospital bereavement services. Her background also includes tutoring counselling up to Level 4 and supporting learners to define career goals, build confidence, develop resilience, and structure their personal and professional growth.

Gillian offers expertise in stress and anxiety management, relationship and family difficulties, separation and family court matters, teenage challenges, trauma and abuse recovery, panic, self-esteem, addictions, and changes in sleep and eating patterns. She also provides support for bereavement and loss, drawing on both professional and lived experience with grief. Additional areas of focus include intimacy-related concerns, parenting, anger, career transitions, bipolar support, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue, as well as specific issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, domestic violence, and substance-related problems.

Her practice blends therapeutic and counselling approaches to meet short-term needs and explore longer-term patterns. Gillian describes her method as collaborative - working with people to create personalised roadmaps, assess immediate wellbeing, and, where helpful, explore early life experiences that shape current difficulties. She can incorporate Biblical principles and Christian values into her work when clients request this, while maintaining an inclusive stance that respects diverse perspectives. Gillian aims to empower people to build resilience, clarify goals, and move toward healthier, more fulfilling lives.