Gareth Blake
Gentle emotion-focused counselling for practical change
About Gareth
Gareth Blake is a counsellor who combines emotion-focused and relational ways of working. He holds BACP registration, and he aims for straightforward, human connection rather than a clinical distance. Gareth speaks plainly and encourages people to bring real feeling into sessions so they can begin to move forward.
Gareth centres emotions as information rather than problems to be fixed. He slows the pace down to notice how feelings show up in the body and then helps translate that into manageable steps.
Background and approach
He adapts his approach for people who think or feel differently, including those with neurodivergent or trauma-affected experiences. His work draws on a blend of methods including Client-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. That mix means sessions can include talking about past patterns, identifying unhelpful thinking, and trying small experiments between meetings.
Gareth often supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy questions, and struggles with self-esteem or life purpose. He also offers help with addictions, trauma and abuse, sleep difficulties, anger, sexuality issues and a wide range of sexual concerns. He offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different routines.
Gareth works in plain language, offers practical tools, and works jointly with each person to find what helps them take the next step.
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Sessions & fees
How Gareth blends therapy approaches for online work
Gareth commonly uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in his online sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on what people feel and how those feelings affect relationships and choices, which helps when someone struggles with intimacy, grief or strong emotions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and helps people try different, practical strategies to reduce anxiety, tackle low mood or manage compulsive actions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Gareth will talk through goals, preferences and how a person thinks and feels, then suggest a way forward. He treats the plan as collaborative and will adapt methods if something isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging so people can pick what fits their routine. Video calls let conversations feel close and visual, phone sessions can be quicker or easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and daily life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
