Gillian Ellis
Experienced trauma-informed counsellor
About Gillian
Gillian Ellis is a counsellor with thirteen years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and depression. Gillian believes people bring their own strengths and knowledge into therapy, and she treats clients as experts in their own lives.
She works with a wide range of difficulties including trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, addiction and relationship concerns. Gillian also supports people with grief, intimacy-related issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strains, career worries and neurodiverse presentations such as ADHD.
Background and approach
Her additional focus areas include codependency, commitment and control issues, domestic violence, and recovery from sexual assault. Gillian uses client-centred therapy to build a collaborative and respectful relationship. She also draws on trauma-focused therapy when past harmful experiences are central to what someone wants to work through.
Sessions aim to be practical and paced to each person’s needs. In a typical session she listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps people try different ways of coping or seeing a situation. She encourages small, achievable steps and checks in about what is working.
The emphasis is on pacing work to avoid overwhelm. People seeking help can expect a calm, straightforward approach that values their experience. Gillian often supports those dealing with shame or guilt, compassion fatigue and complex feelings after relationship breakdown.
She invites people to take the next step when they feel ready.
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How Gillian’s approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experience. The counsellor listens, reflects and supports the individual to find their own solutions. This approach helps with low mood, confidence issues and life changes by building the person's sense of agency.Trauma-focused therapy is used when past harm is affecting current life. It involves working carefully through painful memories and reactions, and developing coping strategies to reduce their impact. This work can help with trauma from abuse, domestic violence or sexual assault.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Gillian will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative planning means the work can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited or a walk-and-talk style works better. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, brief reflections or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, childcare and daily life while keeping the focus on meaningful therapeutic work with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
