Gareth Young, NCPS

Gareth Young is an NCPS-credentialed counsellor in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. He works with adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and anger. He also supports people facing relationship problems, grief, addictions and issues around sexuality and identity.

Gareth commonly works with people from the LGBT community and supports questions about gender and sexual identity. He describes his practice as affirmative and listens without judgment. Sessions focus on what the person finds difficult right now and practical ways to respond differently to those situations.

His approach draws on several therapy styles so sessions can be conversational or more structured. Gareth uses Client-Centred ideas to follow what clients bring, Narrative Therapy to look at the stories people tell about themselves, and Solution-Focused techniques to set short-term goals. He also draws on Internal Family Systems ideas when working with conflicting parts of a person’s experience.

People can expect direct, clear conversations about patterns that keep returning. Gareth works on developing new responses to anger, improving communication, and managing workplace or relationship stress. He also helps with practical steps for coping with life changes and with emotional recovery after abuse or loss.

Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical. Gareth asks about current problems, suggests small experiments between sessions, and reviews what helps. He encourages people to try different ways of working until something fits.

How Gareth uses different approaches in online work