Shaun Gordon , BACP
Person-centred counsellor focused on practical change
About Shaun
Shaun Gordon is a person-centred counsellor based in Colchester, United Kingdom. He holds an FdSc in person-centred counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Shaun aims to make reaching out as straightforward as possible for people who are worried or unsure about starting therapy.
He meets people with warmth and acceptance and works alongside them to follow their priorities. Sessions focus on the goals the client brings, with regular checks to make sure the work feels useful and on track.
Background and approach
Shaun explains things plainly and adjusts his approach as needed so sessions remain practical and accessible. Shaun has worked in both voluntary and personal settings and has experience supporting people with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, obsessive compulsive disorders, bereavement, life transitions and relationship issues. He has also supported people who have experienced self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
His background includes roles with West Sussex Mind in crisis prevention and work with Mid and North East Essex Mind. He has facilitated support groups for obsessive compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder and hoarding since 2014, and he has contributed to recovery groups for hospital in-patients with treatment-resistant OCD and BDD.
Shaun draws on somatic and mindfulness-oriented ideas alongside client-centred and solution-focused ways of working. He is committed to treating each person as an individual and to helping them find practical steps that suit their life and needs.
How Shaun's approaches work online
Shaun draws on somatic therapy to help people notice how stress and emotion appear in the body, and to use gentle awareness and movement to reduce tension and improve self-regulation. This can be useful for trauma, anxiety and intense emotional states.He also works in a client-centred way, which means sessions focus on what matters most to the individual and on building a trusting, accepting space. Clients set the goals and Shaun collaborates to find steps that feel right for them. Mindfulness techniques are used to bring attention to the present moment and to reduce reactivity, which often helps with stress, low mood and rumination.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Shaun will discuss options and adapt methods based on each persons needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative process helps ensure the approach matches the issue being addressed.
Online therapy with Shaun is available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life or mobility limits and allow people to continue work from home or other familiar settings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English