Sally Gardner, BACP
7 years in practice
Sally Gardner is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns.
License and registration
- BACP
- 393308 · expires December 2026
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Sally
Sally Gardner is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. She also supports people facing low self-esteem, addiction, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, and career or life transitions. She works with individuals on issues around attachment, abandonment, codependency and communication problems.
Sally uses a straightforward, respectful manner and aims to make early steps feel manageable. Sally draws on seven years of clinical work and holds BACP registration, which means she meets professional standards set by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Background and approach
Her background includes mental health nursing and a focus on relationships and past experience that affect present feelings. This experience shapes how she thinks about connection and safety in therapy. In sessions she listens for patterns that link current struggles to earlier relationships.
She spends time mapping how past hurts affect present behaviour. That approach helps clients see simple, practical next steps to try between meetings. Conversations are tailored to each person’s pace and goals.
Sally uses a mix of approaches such as Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside attachment-informed and cognitive tools. She blends problem-solving with emotional work so people can both cope better day to day and change longer-term patterns. People meet her for short-term work to solve a clear problem or for longer work to tackle deeper patterns.
Sessions aim to be collaborative, down-to-earth and focused on what will make life feel better in practical ways.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Sally lists on their public professional profile, 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 counseling
- 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 names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How Sally blends emotion-focused and practical approaches online
Sally uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and shift the emotional patterns that keep relationships and intimacy stuck. EFT focuses on feelings and attachments so people can understand why they react a certain way and practise new responses that bring them closer to others.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, and then commit to values-based actions. That approach is useful for anxiety, stress, addiction-related patterns and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Sally will talk through goals, preferences and what has helped in the past, then agree a blend of methods to try. Clients can expect ongoing checking-in about what is or isn’t working so the plan can change over time.
Sally offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and different routines.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this counsellor help with?
Sally works with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people with self-esteem, addiction, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain and career or life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She takes a warm, respectful and practical approach. Conversations aim to map patterns from past relationships to present behaviour and to set simple steps to try between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of professional experience and a background in mental health nursing. That experience informs how she supports emotional and relationship issues.
What credentials and country are relevant?
She is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and is based in the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients as well as people in the UK. All work is carried out in English.
Which session formats are available?
Sally offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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