Jodi Pilcher Gordon, BACP

Jodi Pilcher Gordon is a BACP counsellor who helps people feeling anxious, stuck or overwhelmed. She describes her approach as warm and non-judgemental, and aims to help people find clearer ways to move forward. Jodi works with adults who are coping with stress from work, study, relationships or life changes.

In sessions she listens closely to each person’s unique story and reflects back what she hears to help build clarity. Conversations are practical and grounded, with room to look at thoughts, feelings and bodily reactions. Jodi draws on person-centred ways of working that keep the client’s experience at the centre.

She also brings in techniques from acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural ideas when these suit the person’s goals. Body-based and creative tools may be used to help with grounding and to explore feelings that are hard to put into words. Polyvagal-informed ideas inform how she notices the body’s responses to stress.

Jodi identifies as LGBTQ+ affirmative and supports people exploring identity and relationship questions within that framework. She pays attention to money and work pressures, midlife or young adult transitions, and struggles with guilt, shame or low self-esteem.

Jodi has six years of experience and sees people in the United Kingdom. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.

How Jodi’s approaches work online

Jodi uses person-centred ideas alongside acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural techniques. Person-centred work focuses on being listened to and understood, which helps people talk through what matters to them and find their own solutions. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) encourages noticing difficult thoughts and feelings and choosing actions that match personal values, useful for anxiety and life transitions. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Jodi will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then try methods that fit those aims. That collaborative process means techniques can be mixed and adapted as the therapy progresses.

Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can suit quieter bandwidth or shorter check-ins, live chat allows a real-time written conversation, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and travel, and to choose the format that feels most comfortable.