Shaun Gordon
Person-centred counsellor offering practical support
About Shaun
Shaun Gordon is a person-centred counsellor based in the United Kingdom. He holds an FdSc in person-centred counselling from Brighton University and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Shaun aims to make reaching out as straightforward as possible and meets people with warmth and acceptance.
He works in partnership with each person to set goals and to shape the sessions around what matters to them.
Background and approach
Shaun asks for regular feedback so the approach can be adjusted to match a person's experience and expectations. This keeps the work practical and focused on real changes. Shaun has worked in voluntary and personal sectors and has experience supporting people with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and obsessive compulsive difficulties.
He has also supported those facing bereavement, major life changes and relationship or interpersonal concerns. His background includes roles with mental health charities and trusts, where he planned and ran recovery and support groups. That group work included supporting people with OCD, body dysmorphic disorder and hoarding, and designing programmes for hospital in-patients.
Shaun uses a person-centred way of working that recognises each person as unique. He combines that with approaches such as mindfulness, solution-focused ideas, somatic methods and trauma-focused thinking when they fit the person’s needs. He is currently studying for a BSc in person-centred counselling to continue developing his practice.
What Shaun works with
How Shaun works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches used in online work
Shaun uses a person-centred approach that focuses on listening, acceptance and working at the pace set by the person. This approach helps when people need a supportive space to talk through difficult feelings and to clarify what they want from therapy.He also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts and bodily sensations without judgement. Mindfulness can be useful for stress, anxiety and for managing repetitive or overwhelming thoughts.
Solution-focused ideas are used to identify practical next steps and small changes a person can try between sessions. This can suit people who want short-term, goal-focused work alongside deeper exploration.
Shaun treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. He will discuss options with each person and adapt the mix of methods to match their goals, preferences and the issues they bring. The plan can change as the work progresses so it stays relevant to the person’s needs.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps the work. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text messaging suit people who want brief check-ins, ongoing reflections or a written record of sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and everyday 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
