Gillian Overton, NCPS

Gillian Overton is a counsellor registered with the NCPS and has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, sleeping problems, parenting pressures and anger. She also helps with self-esteem, career concerns and coping with life changes.

Before training as a counsellor, Gillian lived and worked overseas for many years, including extended time in North America. She has worked in the diplomatic service, the financial sector and as a special education teacher. Those roles inform how she listens and responds to practical life problems.

Gillian makes space for honest, straightforward conversation. She focuses on building a reliable working relationship so people can talk through difficult feelings without judgment. In sessions she listens carefully and reflects what she hears before suggesting ways to move forward.

Her clinical approaches include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Narrative Therapy. She uses these methods to help people notice patterns, manage strong emotions and try out different ways of responding in everyday life.

People come to Gillian wanting practical tools and clearer thinking about their next steps. She works with each person to find which strategies fit their situation, drawing on both therapeutic methods and her wider life experience.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions