Belinda Gray, BACP

Belinda Gray uses a person-focused approach that helps people talk about stress, anxiety and life changes in straightforward ways. She combines practical techniques with reflective listening so clients can work out what matters to them. Belinda is known for calm, steady support as people face painful events and hard decisions.

She has 14 years of counselling experience and is a BACP member. Belinda helps people dealing with trauma and abuse, addictions, grief and depression. She also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, family and parenting pressures, and difficulties with sleep or eating.

Belinda draws on several approaches to fit each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and making room for difficult feelings. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape reactions now.

Sessions are practical and conversational. She works with clear goals and small steps between meetings. Techniques may include mindfulness exercises, gentle behaviour experiments and motivation-focused conversations to help people try new ways of coping.

Belinda works with adults on a wide range of concerns including bipolar, ADHD, career strain and anger. She also addresses specific issues such as abandonment, body image, dissociation and communication problems. If someone is unsure, an initial conversation can help decide whether her style feels like a good fit.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Belinda uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in ways that suit remote work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which works well through structured conversations and homework tasks between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult feelings, clarify personal values and take small value-driven steps, which can be practised during calls and reviewed afterwards.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person's goals, needs and preferences. That choice can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift, with regular check-ins to see what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, live chat can help with quick reflections and text messaging supports ongoing, brief check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family commitments and other daily demands.