Gillian Smith, BACP, NCPS

Gillian Smith is credentialed in the United Kingdom and brings four years of professional counselling experience to her practice. She works from a person-centred approach, focusing on each person's individual experience so they feel genuinely heard and understood without judgment. Her work emphasises trust and respect, creating a supportive space where clients can explore difficult emotions and life challenges.

Before qualifying as a counsellor Gillian spent more than two decades supporting children, young people, and adults in a variety of professional roles, helping them find their voices and practical ways to improve wellbeing. This long history of working with diverse age groups informed her decision to retrain in 2019 and gain an Advanced Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, strengthening her therapeutic skills and clinical understanding.

Gillian's own experiences of childhood trauma, workplace anxiety, overwhelm, grief, and depression shaped her commitment to offering compassionate, ethical care. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, anger, career challenges, ADHD, and broader coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include abandonment, attachment issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and cultivating self-love.

She tailors dialogue and treatment plans to each client's needs and priorities, guiding people toward more sustainable wellbeing. Gillian approaches the first step into therapy with respect for the courage it takes to seek change and values the opportunity to support that process.