Gemma Morley, BACP

Gemma Morley is a person-centered, integrative counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience and a BACP credential, which indicates membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is described as warm and non-judgmental and aims to create a space where people feel able to share difficult feelings and concerns.

Trained in Person-Centred Counselling, Gemma works from a humanistic foundation that values an empathic, genuine therapeutic relationship. That foundation guides her practice while she adapts techniques to suit each individual - a flexible approach she describes as integrative. This means she may combine conversational therapy with other interventions when they serve the client best.

Gemma draws on a variety of methods including talk therapy, mindfulness techniques, role play, and creative interventions. Her creative background informs alternative ways of working, and she may suggest using paints, drawings, sand trays, picture cards, dolls, pebbles, creative writing, or other media when those approaches provide a route into feelings or experiences that are hard to put into words.

Sessions are led by the client’s needs and preferences. If creative work does not feel helpful, Gemma will focus on verbal exploration and other approaches instead. Her practice supports people addressing stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes, as well as related areas such as attachment and abandonment issues, body image, communication and control difficulties, guilt and shame, isolation or loneliness, panic attacks, self-harm, self-love, social anxiety, and workplace challenges.