Georgina McBurney, BACP

Georgina McBurney is a counsellor with ten years' experience who blends talking therapies with body-based work. She offers support for stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression and coping with life changes. Georgina works online and by telephone to make therapy accessible for different routines and needs.

She describes her style as warm, creative and collaborative. Sessions focus on what a person is experiencing, not on labels. Georgina uses teaching and practical tools so people can use what they learn between sessions.

Her work includes somatic techniques that help people notice and calm bodily responses linked to stress and trauma. She also uses Internal Family Systems ideas to help people understand different parts of their inner world and how those parts relate. Solution-Focused Therapy is part of the mix, keeping some work directed toward small, achievable changes.

Her background includes time in the armed forces and first responder roles, plus work as a science teacher, animal behaviourist and kinship foster carer. Those experiences inform a practical, down-to-earth approach to helping people through difficult moments.

Georgina also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, domestic violence, fertility issues, first responder challenges, post-traumatic stress, and questions about life purpose and self-love. She aims to help people reconnect with themselves and move toward clearer choices.

To begin, a short matching questionnaire and a scheduled online session can start the process. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Georgina uses Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients identify small, realistic steps toward change and build on what already works. This approach keeps sessions goal-oriented and practical, which can be helpful for stress, decision points and coping with life changes.

She also draws on Somatic Therapy to help people notice physical responses to emotion and trauma. Simple body-based techniques are used alongside talking to reduce tension and increase awareness of how feelings show up in the body.

Internal Family Systems ideas are used to map different parts of a person's inner world and to improve self-understanding. This can help reduce inner conflict and make it easier to act in line with values and priorities.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Georgina will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods as the work progresses. Together the therapist and client decide which techniques to try and when to shift focus.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls allow visual connection for somatic awareness and nuanced conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging suits shorter check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer typing. These options aim to make consistent therapy easier to schedule around life commitments and energy levels.