Gill Fisher

Please feel welcome to email with an enquiry about current availability

I am a BACP registered integrative psychotherapeutic counsellor. I work with a warm and compassionate approach, listening with care and with respect for your uniqueness and life situation.

I have experience working with adults, older adults and young adults (18-24) from different backgrounds, diverse communities and with a wide range of difficulties, looking for collaborative exploration, understanding and support.  I will provide a safe,  non-judgemental and confidential space in which I hope you can feel heard.

I have a Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling from the Metanoia Institute, a well-known training organisation and also attend Continuing Professional Development training opportunities in areas of interest.

I work within the BACP Ethical Framework (2018) 

You may be experiencing a current difficulty or recent event, or there may be a longer-term problem that now feels the right time to look at. I am able to listen, respond and support you to process how you are feeling and where your thinking is taking you.

An integrative approach means I have been trained in several psychotherapeutic modalities and have brought these together into a framework for understanding. 

My framework is relational as I believe that relationship is central to human experience. Just as many of our difficulties have foundations in our earliest childhood relationships which may have been less secure than needed, it is possible for healing and growth to take place in a therapeutic relationship attuned to our needs and vulnerabilities.

I believe that past experience influences how we cope with the  present which affects the future. Together, we can look at patterns of experience or ways of relating which may be causing difficulty. We can notice connections that may not be immediately apparent, but which can help illuminate the way for choices, change and/or acceptance.

I also have an interest in neurobiology and how our nervous systems are shaped by experience, including traumatic experience. Where helpful, I like to be able to share breathing, mindfulness and visualisation techniques that can support physiological and emotional regulation.

After receiving your email, I will get in touch to arrange a free contact phone-call in which you can decide if you would like to come for an initial session. 

A first session is a chance to get to know each other a little and imagine what it might feel like working together. It would be a space in which you could talk about what brings you to therapy, what you are looking for and ask any questions.  I would also have some questions so we could look together at what you may need. 

If you feel comfortable in this first session, and the therapeutic fit seems to be working well, we would agree on a day and time to meet weekly for 50 minutes.

Generally, after two or three sessions, we would be able to come to an agreement on a timescale for working together. This can be short-term or longer term.