Therapy With Gail

About Gail

I’m Gail, a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist, accredited workplace conflict mediator and emergency-services professional with 30 years’ frontline experience. Those different parts of my life and career have shaped the way I work and the kind of therapist I am.

My approach is warm, straightforward and human. I’m comfortable with difficult conversations and with the parts of life and work that don’t always fit neatly into boxes. Whether I’m working with an individual, helping people navigate conflict or working with an organisation, I aim to provide a space where people can talk openly, understand what is happening and consider what might help.

You don’t need to arrive knowing exactly what you want to say or what needs to change. Therapy With Gail is a place where you can bring the real version of yourself — including the parts you’re still trying to understand.

Welcome To Therapy With Gail

Therapy With Gail is about helping people understand what’s happening, find a way through what feels difficult, and move forward — whether that’s in life, relationships or the workplace.

I’m Gail, a counsellor and psychotherapist, accredited workplace conflict mediator and emergency-services professional with 30 years’ frontline experience. Therapy With Gail brings those different parts of my experience together; supporting individuals through counselling, helping people navigate workplace conflict and difficult relationships, facilitating constructive conversations, and helping organisations build greater understanding and confidence through interactive workshops.

My work brings together therapeutic training, workplace conflict mediation and three decades of frontline experience. Whether I’m working with an individual, helping people navigate conflict or delivering a workshop, my approach is warm, straightforward and non-judgemental. I’m comfortable with difficult conversations and with the parts of life and work that don’t fit neatly into boxes.

There isn’t one way of working that suits everybody or every organisation. What matters is understanding what’s happening, what you would like to be different and finding an approach that is useful, realistic and appropriate for you.

Counselling & Psychotherapy

Whether you’re looking for support with something happening in your own life, trying to navigate a difficult workplace relationship, or looking for practical ways to support people within your organisation, Therapy With Gail provides a human, down-to-earth approach grounded in professional training and real-world experience.

I work with people experiencing anxiety, overthinking, stress, low mood, grief, trauma, relationship difficulties, workplace difficulties and times when life simply feels difficult.

Counselling gives you somewhere to talk openly about what is happening without having to protect, reassure or look after anybody else. Together, we can make sense of what you are experiencing, explore what may be keeping you stuck and consider what you would like to be different.

Not sure whether counselling is right for you? I offer a free introductory call so we can briefly talk about what you’re looking for, and you can decide whether working together feels right for you.

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Workplace Conflict Mediation

Independent, structured mediation to help people address workplace conflict, understand different perspectives and work towards a constructive way forward.

It can be particularly helpful when working relationships have become strained, communication has broken down, or people feel stuck and want an opportunity to find a constructive way forward.

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Interactive Workshops

Practical and interactive workshops for organisations, teams and staff – supporting people experiencing challenges themselves and helping colleagues and managers understand how to approach and support others.

The aim is not simply to give people information, but to help them understand what may be happening, feel more confident having difficult conversations and take something practical away that they can use in real situations.

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Therapy With Gail can help you find somewhere to start.

Facilitation

Sometimes a team or group needs support to have a difficult, sensitive or important conversation without the situation becoming stuck or unproductive.

Therapy With Gail offers independent facilitation to help create a structured space where people can contribute, different perspectives can be heard and the conversation can remain focused on what needs to be discussed and what happens next.

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Conflict Coaching & Support

Not every conflict needs mediation, and sometimes you may be the only person who wants support.

Conflict coaching offers individual, confidential support to help you understand what is happening, make sense of your own responses, consider different perspectives and prepare for difficult conversations or decisions about what you want to do next.

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Therapy With Gail can help when life feels difficult, overwhelming or simply not quite right. You don’t need to have a diagnosis, know exactly what the problem is, or have worked out what you want to change before getting in touch.

Sometimes people come to therapy knowing exactly what they want help with. At other times, it can be much harder to put into words. You might know that you’re not feeling like yourself, that something has changed, or that the ways you’ve always coped don’t seem to be working as well as they once did.

You may have been carrying something for a long time. You may be dealing with something that has happened recently. Or life may simply have become too much, with lots of smaller things gradually adding up.

There doesn’t have to be one clear reason for coming to therapy. You don’t need to decide which category you fit into.

Therapy With Gail gives you somewhere to start with what is happening for you now, and we can work together to understand it from there.

Anxiety & Overthinking

You may find it difficult to switch off, spend a lot of time worrying about what might happen, replay conversations or situations in your mind, or find yourself caught in endless “what ifs”.

Stress & Feeling Overwhelmed

Sometimes there is simply too much to carry. You might be juggling work, family, responsibilities or other pressures and finding that there is very little space left for you.

Depression & Low Mood

You may feel low, disconnected, exhausted or unlike yourself. Things you once enjoyed might not feel the same, or everyday life may simply feel harder than it used to.

Grief, Loss & Life Change

Grief isn’t limited to bereavement. Loss can come through relationships, family changes, work, health, identity, ageing or finding yourself in a life that looks different from the one you expected.

Trauma & Difficult Experiences

You may be trying to make sense of something that happened recently or something from much earlier in your life. Sometimes experiences we thought we’d dealt with begin affecting us in ways we hadn’t expected.

Relationships & Conflict

Relationships can be a source of enormous support, but they can also be complicated. You may be struggling with a relationship, experiencing conflict, finding it difficult to communicate what you need or noticing the same patterns happening repeatedly.

Workplace Wellbeing & Difficulties

Work can affect far more than the hours we spend there. Pressure, difficult relationships, conflict, organisational change, responsibility, shift work and demanding roles can all affect how we feel both at work and away from it.

What If More Than One of These Feels Familiar?

That’s completely normal. Life rarely fits neatly into categories.

Anxiety can sit alongside grief. Stress at work can affect relationships at home. Something happening now can bring back feelings connected with something that happened years ago.

You don’t need to decide which category you fit into before coming to therapy.

These pages are simply here to help you explore some of the reasons people come to counselling and to give you somewhere to start.

You Don’t Have to Work It Out Before You Get in Touch

Sometimes the first step is simply being able to say, “Something isn’t right and I’d like some help understanding it.”

We can start there.

Therapy With Gail offers a warm, straightforward and non-judgemental space where you can talk about what is happening and begin to understand what you might need.