Rob Millist, BACP, NCPS

Rob Millist is a counsellor with seven years' experience supporting people through midlife transitions and related challenges. He combines practical coaching and counselling to help clients clarify goals, manage stress, and build confidence. Rob uses a straightforward, down-to-earth style and includes simple grounding techniques to reduce overwhelming feelings in the moment.

He offers an initial 50 minute meeting to review presenting issues, set goals, and introduce a monthly Wellbeing Score used to track feelings and progress. Regular sessions are 45 minutes long. Rob also reviews messages and voice notes during the week to keep work moving between meetings.

Rob has worked in one-to-one and corporate settings and has been a regular counsellor for Youthline UK, Mind and PAWS. He frames sessions around the client's priorities, aiming to make clients feel heard and able to take practical steps forward. His approach blends talking, reflection, and simple exercises so people can try ideas between sessions.

Common areas he supports include stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, addiction issues, mood difficulties including depression and bipolar, parenting strain, and career matters. He also lists additional focuses such as attachment and abandonment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, body image, chronic illness, and communication problems.

Rob works in the United Kingdom and offers therapy in English. He uses a collaborative style that encourages people to set the pace and shape their goals as therapy progresses.

How Rob’s approaches fit with online therapy

Rob often draws on Attachment-Based ideas and Client-Centred work in sessions. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and how early experiences can shape current reactions, which can help with intimacy issues, abandonment concerns and relationship difficulties. Client-centred work focuses on following the client's pace, listening deeply, and helping people find their own solutions, which suits those who want a supportive, exploratory space.

Rob also uses cognitive-behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. This can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with stressful life changes by offering clear practices to try between sessions.

Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. Rob discusses needs, goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as therapy progresses. He encourages clients to set the pace and to test practical techniques that fit their life.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm the currently offered options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a lunch break, or offer a choice about whether to use video. Registered or accredited professionals and therapists often use these practical advantages to help therapy fit everyday life.