About me
Are you carrying more than you can hold?
Maybe you're holding it together on the outside, meeting deadlines, managing the needs of others, showing up while quietly feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or like something important has been lost along the way.
Perhaps you're navigating the emotional weight of caring for a child or family member with complex needs. Or you're starting to wonder whether the anxiety, burnout, or low self-worth you feel is connected to who you are including how you're wired. Maybe something happened that you've never quite found the words for, or the space to process.
Whatever brought you here, you don't have to work it out alone.
How I work
I'm Gina Mahoney, a Gestalt therapist based in Islington, North London, offering both in-person and online sessions. I work with adults across a range of experiences, including stress and burnout, anxiety and depression, neurodivergence (ADHD and autism), trauma and abuse, parent-carer challenges, grief, and self-esteem.
Gestalt therapy is grounded in the present not to ignore the past, but to understand how it's shaping your life right now. Together we'll explore what's happening in your thoughts, feelings, and body, and what it might mean for how you relate to yourself and others.
My approach is warm, practical, and genuinely collaborative. I won't hand you a set of techniques and expect you to get on with it. We move at your pace, in a space that's confidential, supportive, and entirely yours.
Some of the things I specialise in:
Stress, burnout, and work-related pressure especially in high-demand or creative industries
Neurodivergence: understanding ADHD and autism, identity, and related anxiety
Parent-care giver support the unique emotional responsibility of bringing up a child with complex needs
Trauma and processing experiences of abuse, including working with shame
Anxiety, depression, and self-esteem
Grief and bereavement
A little about me
Before training as a therapist, I spent 25 years in television production. That background gives me a real, first-hand understanding of high-pressure environments the adrenaline, the creativity, the camaraderie, and the toll it can quietly take on you.
I trained at the Gestalt Centre in London, I'm a registered BACP member, and I work under regular clinical supervision. I also have deep personal and professional experience supporting families navigating complex needs both through my work at a specialist charity and in my own life.
As a white woman from a working-class background, I bring an awareness of how class, race, ableism, and other systems of oppression can shape our sense of self, safety, and belonging. I aim to be anti-oppressive and neuroaffirming in my practice as an ongoing commitment.
I work with the understanding that our stories don't just live in our minds. As psychotherapist Dave Mann wrote: "The world may be made of atoms, but it is held together with stories. These stories are held in our bodies." Therapy, for me, is the process of exploring that with honesty, care, and curiosity.
Training, qualifications & experience
Gestalt Centre Diploma in Counselling (PGdip)
Gestalt Centre Certificate in Counselling
Before becoming a therapist, I spent 25 years producing factual entertainment television. I understand the pressures and complexities of high-stress work environments. I trained at London’s Gestalt Centre and have worked with clients at Mind, the mental health charity.
For the past three years, I’ve been working with Contact, a charity supporting families of children with complex physical and/or neurological needs. Both professionally and personally, I have a deep understanding of the joys, responsibilities, and challenges that come with supporting a family member with additional needs.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£80.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I believe therapy should be available to all and have some reduced rate sessions available. Please contact me for details.
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