Gillie Bolton

River Wolton

I facilitate a wide range of creative and therapeutic writing groups and have been in supervision with Gillie for six years.   The sessions always leave me feeling inspired and renewed.   I am given encouragement, ideas and structures for my personal development and the progress of my work with others.   Gillie supports me to take on new challenges, to recognise my limits and to value the work that I?m doing.   Her guidance is crucial when I?m in the doldrums and her validation is the icing on the cake when things are going well.   Her extensive experience of writing and people-work is invaluable and she always has practical ideas up her sleeve to help with log-jams and blocks.

Gillie is a true ally. With her support, my professional practice and my own writing has improved by leaps and bounds!

Monica Suswin

As someone who has had earlier careers in psychotherapy and journalism, my working life now weaves elements from both into the practice of therapeutic writing.   

Our sessions touch on potent energy for writing which treads a fine line between the therapeutic and the creative.   In her own writings, Gillie emphasises you can?t get it wrong when encouraging people/clients to explore their own writing process.   Much the same emphasis could be said of these sessions which have the potential to touch on issues arising out of working practice whether with groups or individuals or in fact explore ones own writing.  

In experiencing her particular style of working, I am learning a different approach and accordingly find my own work with others evolving more dynamically.  

Gillie provides a very open space in which to bring issues relating to good practice and I find her supportive role invaluable.

Carry Gorney

Gillie combines the rigour of an academic mind with a poet?s vision.    Through working with her, I am reconnecting with my literary roots.    She is opening up the joy of language, helping me open up the space for words to flow from my heart to my pen.   Gillie silences my inner critic. 

Judy Clinton

It was Gillie's work that initially inspired me and has led me to facilitate workshops of a similar kind.  She has been an invaluable pulse-beat of encouragement and enthusiasm for me over the years, for which I am enormously grateful.  Gillie has such a marvellous capacity to make things feel possible, with just a few words and a huge amount of love.

Najwa Mounla

My first session with Gillie Bolton helped me to make sense of a jumble of contradictory feelings about my job as a Team manager in a busy Adult Social Care Team, about how it was apparently controlling my life. Gillie's wise approach was a wonderful mixture of supportive but disciplined. Her objectivity and nurturing focus encouraged me to place the contradictions into some sort of order, guiding me towards feeling much more in control of any decisions I choose to make about my work and my life, how those two elements fit together. I even used some of her techniques and suggestions during supervision with some staff in my Team. They too found them an empowering revelation.

Rob H

How Gillie's sessions have been useful to me

Two years ago, I was in the darkness of be bereavement and I found myself writing as an outlet for expressing the unthinkable. I was trying to find meaning for the loss of my only child and I was getting nowhere. At this time, Gillie entered my life and lit a candle of hope and understanding. With her guidance and gentle direct style she helped me to reflect deeply into my inner self. She trusted fully the methodology of therapeutical writing as well as believing in me unconditionally. She acknowledged fully my verbal expression of the unspoken feelings of anger, anguish and hatred of Life. I was honestly examining my inner feelings while having a loving hand on my shoulder to guide me and so my healing process started.