Gillian Cooper, BACP

Gillian Cooper is a licensed therapist in the United Kingdom with nine years of professional experience supporting adults and young people across organisational and private settings. She has worked directly with people managing stress and anxiety, relationship and family conflicts, separation from children and family court matters, teenage challenges, trauma and abuse, panic, low self-esteem, addictions, changes to sleep and eating patterns, and sexual difficulties. She has developed extensive experience supporting bereavement and loss and welcomes contact from anyone seeking help to navigate grief.

Her background includes roles in a trauma organisation for women and girls, private care, MIND UK and NHS hospital bereavement services, and she has been a counselling tutor delivering up to Level 4 qualifications. In learning and development settings she has supported young and adult learners to define life purpose and career goals, build inner confidence, create structure, improve negotiation skills and increase resilience.

Gillian has experience working with neuro-divergent adults and young people, individuals in crisis, those presenting with challenging behaviours and people who have experienced various forms of abuse. As an attestation of her Catholic faith she can integrate Biblical principles and Christian values into her work while maintaining a welcoming stance that respects diverse perspectives. She describes her practice as a blend of therapy and counselling, offering both short-term solution-focused work to address present-day concerns and longer-term psychoanalytical exploration to understand how past experiences shape current patterns. Gillian holds BACP accreditation - membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which reflects professional standards in counselling practice.