Gina Zyla, BACP

Gina Zyla is a counsellor with a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and a BACP credential. She brings 14 years of experience to her work and focuses on helping people navigate anxiety, depression, stress, grief and trauma. Gina aims to offer a calm, listening presence so clients feel heard and understood from the start.

Gina adapts her sessions to what each person needs. She uses approaches such as client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques alongside psychodynamic and trauma-focused ideas. This means conversations can include practical steps for daily coping as well as time to understand deeper patterns and past experiences.

Her practice pays attention to issues that often come together, for example relationship strain, low self-esteem, eating and sleeping difficulties, and work-related pressures. Gina also offers support around attachment and abandonment concerns, complex grief, long-term health challenges, and substance-related problems. She explains things plainly and helps people try small changes between sessions.

Gina describes therapy as a collaborative process. She aims to build a trusting working relationship so people feel able to explore painful memories and current stresses at a comfortable pace. Sessions can include reflective talking, practical coping strategies and creative ideas such as inner-child work and art-based techniques where helpful.

Her approach places people and their goals at the centre. She encourages clients to notice progress in small steps and to develop kinder ways of relating to themselves while working toward clearer choices and better day-to-day coping.

How Gina's approaches work online

Gina uses client-centred work to focus on what matters most to the person in front of her, offering attentive listening and guiding conversations around the client's priorities. This approach helps with building trust, managing strong feelings and making decisions about next steps.

She also uses elements of cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at practical patterns in thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT-style work can help with anxiety, sleep and day-to-day coping by identifying small changes to try between sessions.

Finding the right method is part of the therapeutic journey. Gina will work with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and goals. That choice is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.

Confirm the current online session options before booking, as formats are not listed in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also allows activities such as guided breathing, tracking homework tasks and reflective conversations to take place in ways that suit everyday life.