About Gabriel
Gabriel (Gabor) Bene offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or relationship worries. He keeps sessions straightforward and focused on what you want to change. Gabriel works with issues such as trauma, addictions, sleep problems, parenting strain and identity concerns including LGBT-related matters.
He uses somatic ways of noticing how the body holds experience alongside talk-based work. That means paying attention to breath, posture and bodily reactions as part of understanding stress and emotion.
Background and approach
He also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect current connections. Gabriel practises in a client-centred style, so the conversation follows what matters to the person in front of him. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when helpful to unpick thoughts and habits that keep problems going.
Emotionally-focused ideas are offered for people wanting to improve intimacy and emotional connection. He has six years of professional experience and is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). Sessions are available online in English, and international clients may be supported.
Gabriel aims to help people find practical steps and simple skills to manage day-to-day life better. People usually start by sharing what brought them to therapy and what they hope to change. Gabriel tailors each plan to the individual, mixing conversation, body awareness and skill-building so clients can practise new ways of coping between sessions.
Approaches that suit online therapy and bodily awareness
Gabriel blends somatic work and attachment-based thinking with client-centred conversation to support people online. Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body, for example through breathing, tension or posture, and uses simple practices to reduce physical reactivity. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationship patterns influence current connections and help people change repeating patterns in close relationships.He approaches therapy collaboratively, recognising that finding the right mix of methods takes time. The therapist will work with each person to decide which approaches feel most useful, and adjust the plan as goals and circumstances evolve. Clients are invited to bring their priorities and feedback at every stage.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. These options allow for flexible scheduling and continued support when travel or location would otherwise be a barrier. Many people find the range of online formats helps them practise new skills between meetings and stay connected to ongoing care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English