Gerrard Fauguel, BACP

Gerrard Fauguel is a counsellor who works from a person-centred approach. He is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and brings 23 years of experience to his practice. Gerrard aims to offer a warm, open and interactive space where people can talk through difficult feelings and life challenges.

He helps with a wide range of concerns including stress and anxiety, depression, grief, addiction and relationship difficulties. He also supports people facing parenting strains, work and career challenges, sleeping problems, anger, and intimacy-related issues. Additional areas he focuses on include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, and trauma and abuse.

Gerrard’s way of working blends client-centred values with emotionally-focused, motivational and solution-focused techniques. He places emphasis on listening, empathy and tailoring the approach to each person’s needs. Sessions aim to be practical and grounded, helping people notice what is working and what they want to change.

He has experience supporting people through major life changes, coping with physical illness such as cancer, and difficulties linked to dissociation or substance use. Gerrard aims to avoid labels and to treat people with respect and sensitivity throughout the process.

Sessions are conducted in English and he accepts international clients. To begin, prospective clients follow the site’s matching process and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How Gerrard’s approaches translate to online work

Gerrard blends person-centred practice with emotionally-focused and solution-oriented tools. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and making space for a person’s own pace of change; it is useful when someone needs acceptance and clearer self-understanding. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people access and work with strong feelings and attachment-related patterns, which can be helpful for relationship and intimacy concerns. Motivational Interviewing supports people who are ambivalent about change by exploring their own reasons for wanting to do things differently.

Finding the right approach tends to be collaborative. Gerrard will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That means trying things, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the focus as therapy progresses.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing appointments around work or childcare. Some formats take less bandwidth and can be shorter check-ins, while others let people work through deeper topics with regular sessions. The therapist’s biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm available options before booking.