Deborah Gillard

ONLINE: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am-3pm

Please contact me to find a time that would suit both of us.

Are you struggling with challenging relationships, trauma, abuse, or grief? Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected?

I offer a warm, inclusive, and affirming space for individuals and couples to explore what's getting in the way of living and relating more fully.

Couple Therapy - £80

• Communication difficulties and conflict
• Emotional and physical intimacy
• Trust, infidelity, and affairs
• Disconnection and drift
• Separation and divorce
• Pre-commitment and relationship decisions
• Consensual non-monogamy
• LGBTQ+ relationships

"Calm, welcoming and understanding. Debbie made our first experience of couples therapy so enjoyable. Both me and my partner were unsure if couples therapy would work for us but Debbie gave us the comforting space to open up with each other and we found it a lot more beneficial than we could have imagined!" - Anonymous couple in their 40s

Individual Therapy - £60

• Trauma and its ongoing impact
• Abuse, domestic violence, and coercive control
• Sexual violence
• Romantic and intimate relationships
• Grief, loss, and life transitions
• Sex, intimacy, and the body
• LGBTQ+ and queer identity
• Non-monogamy

"I’d tried a couple of therapists before Debbie but none was a good fit, Debbie made me feel like she genuinely cared about what I had to say." - Anonymous client, 29yo

I welcome individuals and couples of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and ethnic, cultural, and faith backgrounds. My practice is inclusive and affirming; whoever you are and however you relate, you are welcome here.

Qualifications:

• Couples Counselling Certificate (Relationships Scotland)
• MSc Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• PGDip Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• MA Psychology with Counselling Skills with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)

Extra Training:

• Trauma & Healing: Infidelity recovery, grief & trauma, restoring trust, healing through the senses, grief when no one has died
• Intimate Partner Abuse: Domestic abuse and gambling harms, Coercive control & controlling behaviour,  The Abusive Relationship - A Trauma-Informed Response To Domestic Abuse, ​High Risk Cases of Domestic Abuse, Younger Children and The Abusive Relationship, Older Children and The Abusive Relationship, ​Maintaining the Silence Around Abusive Relationships
• Intimacy & Relationships: Neuropsychosexual approaches to sex and intimacy
• Crisis & Mental Health: Working with suicidality
• Neurodiversity: Neuro-affirming practice, burnout, PDA
• Eating Disorders: Family-Based Therapy skills, adolescent anorexia support

Work Experience with adults:

• WRASAC (Women's Rape and Sexual Assault Centre)
• Private Practice
• Relationships Scotland
• Cairns Counselling
• The Bounds
• Royal Cornhill Hospital, Acute Adult Mental Health Ward

Work Experience with children/young people:

• Private Practice
• Harris Academy and cluster primary schools
• Mable Therapy
• Children and Adolescents Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Eating Disorders Team
• Childline
• Linn Moor Residential School

I offer a FREE 20-minute consultation to explain what therapy may feel like and answer your questions.

Sessions Info:

• Individual Therapy: £60

• Relationships Therapy: £80
• Concession fees available for a limited number of clients.
• Longer sessions available on request.

ONLINE: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am-3pm

Please contact me to find a time that would suit both of us.

Are you struggling with challenging relationships, trauma, abuse, or grief? Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected?

I offer a warm, inclusive, and affirming space for individuals and couples to explore what's getting in the way of living and relating more fully.

Couple Therapy - £80

• Communication difficulties and conflict
• Emotional and physical intimacy
• Trust, infidelity, and affairs
• Disconnection and drift
• Separation and divorce
• Pre-commitment and relationship decisions
• Consensual non-monogamy
• LGBTQ+ relationships

"Calm, welcoming and understanding. Debbie made our first experience of couples therapy so enjoyable. Both me and my partner were unsure if couples therapy would work for us but Debbie gave us the comforting space to open up with each other and we found it a lot more beneficial than we could have imagined!" - Anonymous couple in their 40s

Individual Therapy - £60

• Trauma and its ongoing impact
• Abuse, domestic violence, and coercive control
• Sexual violence
• Romantic and intimate relationships
• Grief, loss, and life transitions
• Sex, intimacy, and the body
• LGBTQ+ and queer identity
• Non-monogamy and relationship structures

"I’d tried a couple of therapists before Debbie but none was a good fit, Debbie made me feel like she genuinely cared about what I had to say." - Anonymous client, 29yo

I welcome individuals and couples of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and ethnic, cultural, and faith backgrounds. My practice is inclusive and affirming; whoever you are and however you relate, you are welcome here.

Qualifications:

• Couples Counselling Certificate (Relationships Scotland)
• MSc Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• PGDip Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• MA Psychology with Counselling Skills with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)

Extra Training:

• Trauma & Healing: Infidelity recovery, grief & trauma, restoring trust, healing through the senses, grief when no one has died
• Intimate Partner Abuse: Domestic abuse and gambling harms, Coercive control & controlling behaviour,  The Abusive Relationship - A Trauma-Informed Response To Domestic Abuse, ​High Risk Cases of Domestic Abuse, Younger Children and The Abusive Relationship, Older Children and The Abusive Relationship, ​Maintaining the Silence Around Abusive Relationships
• Intimacy & Relationships: Neuropsychosexual approaches to sex and intimacy
• Crisis & Mental Health: Working with suicidality
• Neurodiversity: Neuro-affirming practice, burnout, PDA
• Eating Disorders: Family-Based Therapy skills, adolescent anorexia support

Work Experience with adults:

• WRASAC (Women's Rape and Sexual Assault Centre)
• Private Practice
• Relationships Scotland
• Cairns Counselling
• The Bounds
• Royal Cornhill Hospital, Acute Adult Mental Health Ward

Work Experience with children/young people:

• Private Practice
• Harris Academy and cluster primary schools
• Mable Therapy
• Children and Adolescents Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Eating Disorders Team
• Childline
• Linn Moor Residential School

I offer a FREE 20-minute consultation to explain what therapy may feel like and answer your questions.

Sessions Info:

• Individual Therapy: £60
• Relationships Therapy: £80
• Concession fees available for a limited number of clients.
• Longer sessions available on request.

ONLINE: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am-3pm

Please contact me to find a time that would suit both of us.

Are you struggling with challenging relationships, trauma, abuse, or grief? Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected?

I offer a warm, inclusive, and affirming space for individuals and couples to explore what's getting in the way of living and relating more fully.

Couple Therapy - £80

• Communication difficulties and conflict
• Emotional and physical intimacy
• Trust, infidelity, and affairs
• Disconnection and drift
• Separation and divorce
• Pre-commitment and relationship decisions
• Consensual non-monogamy
• LGBTQ+ relationships

"Calm, welcoming and understanding. Debbie made our first experience of couples therapy so enjoyable. Both me and my partner were unsure if couples therapy would work for us but Debbie gave us the comforting space to open up with each other and we found it a lot more beneficial than we could have imagined!" - Anonymous couple in their 40s

Individual Therapy - £60

• Trauma and its ongoing impact
• Abuse, domestic violence, and coercive control
• Sexual violence
• Romantic and intimate relationships
• Grief, loss, and life transitions
• Sex, intimacy, and the body
• LGBTQ+ and queer identity
• Non-monogamy

"I’d tried a couple of therapists before Debbie but none was a good fit, Debbie made me feel like she genuinely cared about what I had to say." - Anonymous client, 29yo

I welcome individuals and couples of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and ethnic, cultural, and faith backgrounds. My practice is inclusive and affirming; whoever you are and however you relate, you are welcome here.

Qualifications:

• Couples Counselling Certificate (Relationships Scotland)
• MSc Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• PGDip Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• MA Psychology with Counselling Skills with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)

Extra Training:

• Trauma & Healing: Infidelity recovery, grief & trauma, restoring trust, healing through the senses, grief when no one has died
• Intimate Partner Abuse: Domestic abuse and gambling harms, Coercive control & controlling behaviour,  The Abusive Relationship - A Trauma-Informed Response To Domestic Abuse, ​High Risk Cases of Domestic Abuse, Younger Children and The Abusive Relationship, Older Children and The Abusive Relationship, ​Maintaining the Silence Around Abusive Relationships
• Intimacy & Relationships: Neuropsychosexual approaches to sex and intimacy
• Crisis & Mental Health: Working with suicidality
• Neurodiversity: Neuro-affirming practice, burnout, PDA
• Eating Disorders: Family-Based Therapy skills, adolescent anorexia support

Work Experience with adults:

• WRASAC (Women's Rape and Sexual Assault Centre)
• Private Practice
• Relationships Scotland
• Cairns Counselling
• The Bounds
• Royal Cornhill Hospital, Acute Adult Mental Health Ward

Work Experience with children/young people:

• Private Practice
• Harris Academy and cluster primary schools
• Mable Therapy
• Children and Adolescents Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Eating Disorders Team
• Childline
• Linn Moor Residential School

I offer a FREE 20-minute consultation to explain what therapy may feel like and answer your questions.

Sessions Info:

• Individual Therapy: £60
• Relationships Therapy: £80
• Concession fees available for a limited number of clients.
• Longer sessions available on request.

ONLINE: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am-3pm

Please contact me to find a time that would suit both of us.

Are you struggling with challenging relationships, trauma, abuse, or grief? Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected?

I offer a warm, inclusive, and affirming space for individuals and couples to explore what's getting in the way of living and relating more fully.

Couple Therapy - £80

• Communication difficulties and conflict
• Emotional and physical intimacy
• Trust, infidelity, and affairs
• Disconnection and drift
• Separation and divorce
• Pre-commitment and relationship decisions
• Consensual non-monogamy
• LGBTQ+ relationships

"Calm, welcoming and understanding. Debbie made our first experience of couples therapy so enjoyable. Both me and my partner were unsure if couples therapy would work for us but Debbie gave us the comforting space to open up with each other and we found it a lot more beneficial than we could have imagined!" - Anonymous couple in their 40s

Individual Therapy - £60

• Trauma and its ongoing impact
• Abuse, domestic violence, and coercive control
• Sexual violence
• Romantic and intimate relationships
• Grief, loss, and life transitions
• Sex, intimacy, and the body
• LGBTQ+ and queer identity
• Non-monogamy and relationship structures

"I’d tried a couple of therapists before Debbie but none was a good fit, Debbie made me feel like she genuinely cared about what I had to say." - Anonymous client, 29yo

I welcome individuals and couples of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and ethnic, cultural, and faith backgrounds. My practice is inclusive and affirming; whoever you are and however you relate, you are welcome here.

Qualifications:

• Couples Counselling Certificate (Relationships Scotland)
• MSc Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• PGDip Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• MA Psychology with Counselling Skills with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)

Extra Training:

• Trauma & Healing: Infidelity recovery, grief & trauma, restoring trust, healing through the senses, grief when no one has died
• Intimate Partner Abuse: Domestic abuse and gambling harms, Coercive control & controlling behaviour,  The Abusive Relationship - A Trauma-Informed Response To Domestic Abuse, ​High Risk Cases of Domestic Abuse, Younger Children and The Abusive Relationship, Older Children and The Abusive Relationship, ​Maintaining the Silence Around Abusive Relationships
• Intimacy & Relationships: Neuropsychosexual approaches to sex and intimacy
• Crisis & Mental Health: Working with suicidality
• Neurodiversity: Neuro-affirming practice, burnout, PDA
• Eating Disorders: Family-Based Therapy skills, adolescent anorexia support

Work Experience with adults:

• WRASAC (Women's Rape and Sexual Assault Centre)
• Private Practice
• Relationships Scotland
• Cairns Counselling
• The Bounds
• Royal Cornhill Hospital, Acute Adult Mental Health Ward

Work Experience with children/young people:

• Private Practice
• Harris Academy and cluster primary schools
• Mable Therapy
• Children and Adolescents Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Eating Disorders Team
• Childline
• Linn Moor Residential School

I offer a FREE 20-minute consultation to explain what therapy may feel like and answer your questions.

Sessions Info:

• Individual Therapy: £60
• Relationships Therapy: £80
• Concession fees available for a limited number of clients.
• Longer sessions available on request.

IN-PERSON: Mondays & Wednesdays 1pm-7pm

ONLINE: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am-3pm

Sessions are available online worldwide and in-person in Dundee City Centre.

Please contact me to find a time that suits us both.

Are you struggling with challenging relationships, trauma, abuse, or grief? Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected? 

I offer a warm, inclusive, and affirming space for individuals and couples to explore what's getting in the way of living and relating more fully.

Couple Therapy - £80

• Communication difficulties and conflict

• Emotional and physical intimacy
• Trust, infidelity, and affairs
• Disconnection and drift
• Separation and divorce
• Pre-commitment and relationship decisions
• Consensual non-monogamy
• LGBTQ+ relationships

"Calm, welcoming and understanding. Debbie made our first experience of couples therapy so enjoyable. Both me and my partner were unsure if couples therapy would work for us but Debbie gave us the comforting space to open up with each other and we found it a lot more beneficial than we could have imagined!" - Anonymous couple in their 40s

Individual Therapy - £60

• Trauma and its ongoing impact

• Abuse, domestic violence, and coercive control
• Sexual violence
• Romantic and intimate relationships
• Grief, loss, and life transitions
• Sex, intimacy, and the body
• LGBTQ+ and queer identity
• Non-monogamy

"I’d tried a couple of therapists before Debbie but none was a good fit, Debbie made me feel like she genuinely cared about what I had to say." - Anonymous client, 29yo

I welcome individuals and couples of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and ethnic, cultural, and faith backgrounds. My practice is inclusive and affirming; whoever you are and however you relate, you are welcome here.

Qualifications:

• Couples Counselling Certificate (Relationships Scotland)
• MSc Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• PGDip Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• MA Psychology with Counselling Skills with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)

Extra Training:

• Trauma & Healing: Infidelity recovery, grief & trauma, restoring trust, grief when no one has died
• Intimate partner abuse: Domestic abuse and gambling harms, Coercive control & controlling behaviour, The Abusive Relationship - A Trauma-Informed Response To Domestic Abuse, ​High Risk Cases of Domestic Abuse, Younger Children and The Abusive Relationship, Older Children and The Abusive Relationship, ​Maintaining the Silence Around Abusive Relationships
• Intimacy & Relationships: Neuropsychosexual approaches to sex and intimacy
• Crisis & Mental Health: Working with suicidality
• Neurodiversity: Neuro-affirming practice, burnout, PDA
• Eating Disorders: Family-Based Therapy skills, adolescent anorexia support

Work Experience with adults:

• WRASAC (Women's Rape and Sexual Assault Centre)
• Private Practice
• Relationships Scotland
• Cairns Counselling
• The Bounds
• Royal Cornhill Hospital, Acute Adult Mental Health Ward

Work Experience with children/young people:

• Private Practice
• Harris Academy and cluster primary schools
• Mable Therapy
• Children and Adolescents Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Eating Disorders Team
• Childline
• Linn Moor Residential School

ONLINE: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9am-3pm

Please contact me to find a time that would suit both of us.

Are you struggling with challenging relationships, trauma, abuse, or grief? Do you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected?

I offer a warm, inclusive, and affirming space for individuals and couples to explore what's getting in the way of living and relating more fully.

Couple Therapy - £80

• Communication difficulties and conflict
• Emotional and physical intimacy
• Trust, infidelity, and affairs
• Disconnection and drift
• Separation and divorce
• Pre-commitment and relationship decisions
• Consensual non-monogamy
• LGBTQ+ relationships

"Calm, welcoming and understanding. Debbie made our first experience of couples therapy so enjoyable. Both me and my partner were unsure if couples therapy would work for us but Debbie gave us the comforting space to open up with each other, and we found it a lot more beneficial than we could have imagined!" - Anonymous couple in their 40s

Individual Therapy - £60

• Trauma and its ongoing impact
• Abuse, domestic violence, and coercive control
• Sexual violence
• Romantic and intimate relationships
• Grief, loss, and life transitions
• LGBTQ+ and queer identity
• Non-monogamy and relationship structures

"I’d tried a couple of therapists before Debbie but none was a good fit, Debbie made me feel like she genuinely cared about what I had to say." - Anonymous client, 29yo

I welcome individuals and couples of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and ethnic, cultural, and faith backgrounds. My practice is inclusive and affirming; whoever you are and however you relate, you are welcome here.

Qualifications:

• Couples Counselling Certificate (Relationships Scotland)
• MSc Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• PGDip Person-Centred Counselling with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)
• MA Psychology with Counselling Skills with Distinction (University of Aberdeen)

Extra Training:

• Trauma & Healing: Infidelity recovery, grief & trauma, restoring trust, healing through the senses, grief when no one has died
• Intimate Partner Abuse: Domestic abuse and gambling harms, Coercive control & controlling behaviour,  The Abusive Relationship - A Trauma-Informed Response To Domestic Abuse, ​High Risk Cases of Domestic Abuse, Younger Children and The Abusive Relationship, Older Children and The Abusive Relationship, ​Maintaining the Silence Around Abusive Relationships
• Intimacy & Relationships: Neuropsychosexual approaches to sex and intimacy
• Crisis & Mental Health: Working with suicidality
• Neurodiversity: Neuro-affirming practice, burnout, PDA
• Eating Disorders: Family-Based Therapy skills, adolescent anorexia support

Work Experience with adults:​

• WRASAC (Women's Rape and Sexual Assault Centre)
• Private Practice
• Relationships Scotland
• Cairns Counselling
• The Bounds
• Royal Cornhill Hospital, Acute Adult Mental Health Ward

Work Experience with children/young people:

• ​Private Practice
• Harris Academy and cluster primary schools
• Mable Therapy
• Children and Adolescents Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Eating Disorders Team
• Childline
• Linn Moor Residential School

I offer a FREE 20-minute consultation to explain what therapy may feel like and answer your questions.

Sessions Info:

• Individual Therapy: £60
• Relationships Therapy: £80
• Concession fees available for a limited number of clients.
• Longer sessions available on request.