Gillian Evans

I offer therapy sessions in-person, in Honor Oak Park, Southeast London. I also offer online appointments. I am available most days and some evenings. Book via my website.

Therapy provides a dedicated confidential environment to discuss your feelings and what is causing you to feel stuck or uninspired about life. You might benefit from a space to talk about anxiety, irritability, low mood, interruption to sleep or eating patterns or difficulty enjoying life. While you may seek support because life is in crisis, therapy is also a space for personal growth at a time of trouble and distress. When things feel overwhelming, therapy can help you to feel and voice grief, loss, helplessness, fear, disappointment, anger, and uncertainty and slowly rediscover the meaning of life and hope for the future.

Working with me involves a series of six talking sessions, followed by one week off, or an optional one-to-one or one-to-two (for couples) bodywork/yoga session. This might involve the Spinal Release practice for deep relaxation and nervous system regulation, or the Sun Salutation practice to cultivate strength and vitality, courage and self-confidence.

It can be difficult when life feels overwhelming to find support in private and to make that first contact. I offer a complimentary half-an-hour consultation in person, or online, with no obligation.

My compassionate therapeutic approach is based in Transactional Analysis and Integrative Psychotherapy. I also incorporate breathwork and bodywork inspired by yoga. I am a qualified and highly experienced yoga teacher. I am also a Social Anthropologist. I bring my experience of bodywork and analysis of complex cultural dynamics to my therapeutic work and welcome clients of all backgrounds and life experience. 

Our first session together is preceded by a half-hour complimentary Discovery Call for us to meet online and find out about what kind of therapeutic support you are seeking and how I might be able to support you. After the Discovery Call, the first session allows you to understand more about how I work and what the experience is like of having therapy with me. The session begins with a grounding, calming breath work practice and we then begin to explore the issues that bring you to therapy and your ideal outcomes. 

I explain more about how bodywork inspired by yoga can support the therapeutic process and when these optional bodywork sessions are usually scheduled - after six weeks of talking therapy - but this can also be sooner if necessary. Because our emotional and social histories are carried in the body, it can be a transformational process to also work therapeutically through the body for greater emotional understanding, regulation of the nervous system, freedom of the breath and release of long-held tensions. 

There are uncomplicated intake and client agreement forms to fill in and sign if you decide to go ahead with regular therapy sessions with me. These explain more about confidentiality, data protection and ethical practice. 

Booking and payment is straightforward through my website.