Melrose Gunning
Practical counselling focused on strengths and coping
About Melrose
Melrose Gunning is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She works with people facing grief, stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. Melrose believes clients are the experts in their own stories and looks for strengths to build on.
She helps people cope with life changes and with depression. Her specialist areas include family concerns, bereavement, and self-love. She also supports people dealing with cancer, chronic illness or disability, and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Melrose can assist with communication problems, the strain of divorce and separation, and issues around forgiveness. She has experience supporting those affected by postpartum depression and people who are hearing impaired. End-of-life and hospice counselling are also part of her focus.
Messages are checked during the day and she aims to reply by 6pm the same day, except for messages received after 8pm. Melrose uses a straightforward, respectful style in sessions and encourages people to name what matters most to them. Her approach centres on practical steps and on recognising what is already helping.
Sessions look at manageable changes and coping strategies that fit everyday life. Melrose aims to make the first steps feel clearer and less overwhelming for people reaching out for help.
What Melrose works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based approaches work online
People often benefit from straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on coping and problem solving. One approach looks at identifying helpful habits and small behaviour changes to reduce stress and lift mood. This is a practical way to tackle anxiety, low mood and daily overwhelm. Another approach focuses on processing grief by creating safe time to remember, name painful feelings and find personal meaning, which can help with bereavement and end-of-life concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and decide together which methods match the person’s needs, goals and preferences. That way each plan fits the individual rather than forcing one method on everyone.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can use less bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging helps when people prefer writing. These choices give flexibility for different days and different needs while keeping therapy consistent and focused on progress.
| 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
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
