Gail Wilkinson

I have 3 sessions available for an immediate start: 

Monday 17:30

Tuesday 14:30

Wednesday 7:30

Thursday (In person) 11:00

Session availability can change, so please get in touch so we can discuss how we might work together, and meet your needs. I look forward to hearing from you. 

Hi, I’m Gail.

I offer face-to-face counselling in EC4, SE1, and online sessions via Zoom for adults.

Starting therapy can feel daunting, finding someone you feel safe enough to open up to is an important step. Clients often describe me as warm, honest, and real. I listen closely, I am real and present in sessions, offering both compassion and gentle challenge. I am open to sharing where your experience impacts me.

If you are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of your place in the world, therapy can help you slow down, make sense of what you’re carrying, and reconnect with yourself and others.

My approach is relational and collaborative. This means we pay attention not only to your thoughts and feelings, but also to the dynamics that arise between us. Our relationship becomes a base and a mirror, a place where you can explore old patterns, unmet needs, and new possibilities for connection. Together, we create space for you to feel seen, understood, and supported, so that meaningful and lasting change can take root.

The best way to know if we’re a good fit is to talk. I offer a free 15-minute call so you can get a sense of me and ask any questions. Please email me to arrange a time it could be a first step toward feeling more grounded, connected, and alive in your life.

Areas I often support people with:

Addiction, anxiety, depression, self-loathing, relationship difficulties, identity, life transitions, loss, feeling stuck, unresolved childhood experiences, and questions of meaning and belonging.

I am trained in relational and integrative psychotherapy, grounded in curiosity, presence, and respect for your unique experience. Please contact me so we can explore how you need to be supported and how we may work together.

I work from an integrative and trauma-informed perspective and draw from a range of psychoanalytic, somatic, and humanistic approaches, that will be tailored to your needs. 

I am trained in Pscyhosynthesis, and in Relational Psychoanalysis, which place our relationship at the heart of healing and change. Working relationally means I am actively present in the therapy room. Although space for reflection is powerful and important, I don’t always sit back in silence. I may offer reflections, ask questions, and gently challenge patterns that may be holding you back. At the same time, I hold a deeply compassionate stance; my aim is to meet you with warmth, honesty, and steady support, while helping you stay connected to your truths, that may be multiple.

Attachment theory supports us in understanding your relationship patterns, how closeness, distance, vulnerability, and trust have been shaped by your earliest experiences. Somatic and trauma-informed approaches help us listen to the wisdom of the body, where emotion, memory, and stress are often held. We may use gentle body awareness, grounding, or creative processes to support release, repair, and reconnection. Subpersonalities/Internal family systems theories, can help us to navigate your internal world and psychological processes, facilitating deeper understanding and self-awareness. I have found this process to provide choice, and significant and lasting change. 

Psychodynamic work helps us understand how past relationships and experiences shape your present, exploring both what is happening in your life now and what may be rooted in past experience so insight and integration can unfold.

I have expertise in helping people overcome;

Addiction

Anxiety

Attachment and Relational Wounds

Depression & Suicidal ideation

Trauma (e.g. neglect, emotional/sexual/physical abuse, PTSD)

The best way to understand, is to begin...

Our initial meeting is an opportunity to get to know each other a little better and to decide if we'd like to work together. You will be able to ask questions about the way we might work, or raise any concerns about the process. It is also an opportunity to say a little about what's happening for you, and what brings you to seek help at this time.

Like all sessions, the initial session will be 50minutes, online or in person. To book your first appointment, please contact me to arrange.  

After an initial session, If we decide we'd like to work together, we will agree how we wish to proceed; either with a short-term set number of sessions working towards a specific outcome, or an open ended relationship with a review period. 

Please do get in touch if you have any questions about the process, or to see if we may be a good fit. 

The following sessions are available for an immediate start. 

Monday: 5.30pm (Online)

Tuesday: 2.30pm (Online)

Wednesday 7.30am (Online)

Thursday at 11am, (In person)   

Session availability can change. Please get in touch so we can discuss how we might work together, and meet your needs.  

Hi, I’m Gail.

I offer face-to-face counselling in EC4 and online sessions via Zoom for adults.

Starting therapy can feel daunting, finding someone you feel safe enough to open up to is an important step. Clients often describe me as warm, honest, and real. I listen closely, I am real and present in sessions, offering both compassion and gentle challenge. I am open to sharing where your experience impacts me.

My approach is relational and collaborative. This means we pay attention not only to your thoughts and feelings, but also to the dynamics that arise between us. Our relationship becomes a safe base and a mirror, a place where you can explore old patterns, unmet needs, and new possibilities for connection. Together, we create space for you to feel seen, understood, and supported, so that meaningful and lasting change can take root.

If you are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure of your place in the world, therapy can help you slow down, make sense of what you’re carrying, and reconnect with yourself and others.

The best way to know if we’re a good fit is to talk. I offer a free 15-minute call so you can get a sense of me and ask any questions. Please email me to arrange a time it could be a first step toward feeling more grounded, connected, and alive in your life.

Areas I often support people with:

Addiction, anxiety, depression, self-loathing, relationship difficulties, identity, life transitions, loss, feeling stuck, unresolved childhood experiences, and questions of meaning and belonging.

I am trained in relational and integrative psychotherapy, grounded in curiosity, presence, and respect for your unique experience. Please contact me so we can explore how you need to be supported and how we may work together. 

I work from an integrative and trauma-informed perspective, drawing from a range of psychoanalytic, somatic, and humanistic approaches, depending on what you need at any moment in our work.

I am trained in Pscyhosynthesis a transpersonal model that sees each person as more than their difficulties, and in Relational Psychoanalysis, which places our relationship at the heart of healing and change. 

Working relationally means I am actively present in sessions. Although space for reflection is powerful and important, I don’t always sit back in silence, I engage with you. I may offer reflections, ask questions, and gently challenge patterns that may be holding you back. At the same time, I hold a deeply compassionate stance, believing we walk this path together. My aim is to meet you with warmth, honesty, and steady support, while helping you stay connected to your truths, that may be multiple, and complex.

Somatic and trauma-informed approaches help us listen to the wisdom of the body, where emotion, memory, and stress are often held. We may use gentle body awareness, grounding, or creative processes to support release, repair, and reconnection.

Attachment theory supports us in understanding your relationship patterns, how closeness, distance, vulnerability, and trust have been shaped by your earliest experiences. Psychodynamic work helps us understand how past relationships and experiences shape your present. So we may explore both what is happening in your life now and what may be rooted in past experience, so insight and integration can unfold.

I offer long-term therapy, that creates the safety and depth needed for meaningful transformation. Short-term work (around 12 sessions) is also possible if you have a specific focus or goal.

Our initial meeting is an opportunity to get to know each other a little better and to decide if we'd like to work together.  You will be able to ask questions about the way we might work, or raise any concerns about the process. It is also an opportunity to say a little about what's happening for you, and what brings you to seek help at this time. 

I will send you a copy of my working contract prior to booking for your to read through, and we can discuss that further when we meet if you have any questions. Once you've paid for the initial session, I will send you a Zoom link. 

Like all sessions, the initial session will be 50minutes. Once we've agreed a time to meet, I will send you a copy of my working contract, for your to read through, prior to you booking. It's usual to discuss the contract during our initial meeting, and any questions that you have can be answered then. 

Once you've paid for the initial session, I will send you details of how to find the room, if meeting in person, or a Zoom link. 

To book your first appointment, you will need to pay for the session at the time of booking. 

For regular online supervision I have the following availability; 

Tuesday 10.00

Wednesday 1300-16.00

Friday 10-12.00 

I offer supervision to qualified therapists who are open to learning together how best to support your client work and therapeutic practice. Together we will support you to better understand both you and your client's needs; that may include your development and educative needs, keeping abreast of your personal world and practice load, as well as working explicitly with client material. 

It is my experience that secure authentic relationships are built with honest communication. This builds trust. My supervision style is collegial and collaborative, based on respect. I use radical honesty and challenge for growth, that may allow us to explore your edges as a counsellor together. We will create space for you to fully explore limitations and challenges in client work, to be vulnerable with confidence to explore issues that arise, as well as celebrating your successes. 

You may reflect on when you are tempted to objectify or collude with clients, what you avoid, exploring clients you are more comfortable with, the interventions you use and how you are impacted by the work. I am particularly interested in exploring the dynamic, unconscious process elements within the work. If this is something that interests you too, get in touch. 

My supervision training was with North London Supervision and Training. I often use Millichamp's 'Shadow mapping' to help create a personal usable living map of client material. Supervisee's have found this way of working invaluable. It provides a bespoke, current blueprint for how to work with the client and their shunned identities. 

Of course, we will help navigate your needs alongside developing your practice, and those of any organisation you may work alongside.

A space to bring your worries and fears, your joys and successes. An opportunity to explore your developmental and practice needs. Collegial, radical, challenging, supportive. 

Like all sessions, this session will be 60minutes online. It will be an opportunity for us to get to know each other, experiencing how it is to be in a room together. You might want to ask questions, you may also be ready to dive in and discuss clients you've been reflecting on. There may be something pressing you'd like to discuss, or a general support you're after. 

You may begin by sharing about you and your practice, to reflect on the types of clients you see, or the types of clients you're drawn to. We may also explore any areas that you'd like to move in to, or something that may feel lacking in your practice. 

It would be good to hear about your previous experience of supervision, particularly what worked and what didn't. 

The first session will be for us to experience how the relationship works and if we'd like to continue.