Sally Gardner
Compassionate counsellor for relationship and trauma issues
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About Sally
Sally Gardner supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns and low self-esteem. She also helps with addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, career stress, bipolar and depression, ADHD and other life changes. Sally works with LGBT clients and addresses issues such as attachment, abandonment, codependency and body image.
Sally Gardner holds BACP and has seven years of professional experience in the United Kingdom.
Background and approach
She begins by listening to what matters most to each person. Conversations look at current struggles and the relationships that shape them. Sally aims to make sense of how past experiences can affect feelings and behaviour now.
This helps decide what to focus on together. Sally uses a mix of talking and practical techniques from several well known approaches. She draws on acceptance-based methods, cognitive strategies and skills from dialectical work to help manage intense feelings.
Attachment-focused ideas guide conversations about closeness and trust in relationships. Sessions are tailored to individual needs and paced to what each person can manage. Sally emphasises respect, sensitivity and compassion throughout.
She offers coaching-style support when clients want practical steps alongside therapy. Her background includes seven years working in mental health in the UK, and she combines that experience with counselling methods to support change. People interested in starting are invited to follow the platform steps to match with her and arrange sessions.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 7
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 393308
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Sally's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Sally works with
Everything Sally lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sally lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Sally works online
Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Sally will talk with each person about goals and preferences and choose approaches together. That collaborative process helps tailor techniques and homework to everyday life rather than offering a one-size-fits-all plan.
Confirm the specific online session options before booking, as formats were not detailed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work, childcare or travel, and it can allow shorter check-ins or camera-off conversations when needed. Many people find it helpful to combine talking, practical exercises and brief tasks between sessions so therapy fits into daily routines.
Questions and answers
What kinds of concerns does Sally focus on?
Sally supports people with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and addictions. She also works with grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, career issues, bipolar and depression, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and collaborative, combining listening with practical techniques. Conversations explore past and present relationships to help make sense of current feelings and behaviours.
What is her professional background?
She has seven years of professional experience working in mental health in the United Kingdom and uses that experience alongside counselling methods.
What credentials and region are listed?
Sally holds BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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