Lisa Buckingham

My Approach

You may feel daunted by the prospect of counselling but be reassured that I am extremely approachable.  My approach is that I work with the person on building a supportive, non-judgemental relationship, providing the environment that enables and encourages the client to grow and develop in the way that suits the individual at their pace.  This in turn facilitates the person's move towards clarity and growing self-awareness, encouraging them to become confident in making choices and decisions.  I believe that each person's life experiences are exclusive to them, although there are often similarities in how we respond as humans through actions, thoughts and feelings to those experiences.  The counselling relationship is a unique one that helps the client negotiate the process of working through their difficulties, whilst feeling supported and empowered.  The way of life for many people has become very busy and fast paced. I find that clients often approach me as they are trying to achieve balance as they have been experiencing stress related symptoms, anxiety or depression, which impacts their relationships, mental health and physical health. 

I counsel clients for many different issues but specialise and have extensive experience in bereavement counselling and working with people suffering from life limiting illness. My experience was gained at a Bereavement Charity and during my time with The Rowans Hospice. I am an Accredited counsellor with The Foundation for Infant Loss Training.

I continually work on my professional and personal development and attend regular supervision, as I believe these are all essential to my continuing practice as a counsellor to ensure that I work ethically and am able to offer a good service to my clients.

Please visit my website for further details.  If you can't find the information you are looking for there, don't hesitate to contact me by email or telephone.

Some Areas of Counselling I work With

I work with clients with many different concerns and have listed a few of them here but I do work with the person as a whole and whatever they bring to the session.

• Anxiety
• Bereavement 
• Loss
• Depression
• Low Mood
• Illness, health and wellbeing
• Relationships
• Self-confidence
• Spirituality
• Eco-anxiety
• Self-Development

About Me

I am a Person Centred Counsellor in Portsmouth and provide counselling to individuals.  I began as a volunteer in 2003 and continue to develop my practice.  I am currently taking part in a year-long course in eco-psychotherapy.  My initial interest to counselling was linked to grief.

Location

I work from my purpose-built therapy room in Cosham, in the north of Portsmouth which is easily accessible from the A3, A27.  

• Life Limiting Illness
• Pre-bereavement
• Grief/loss Baby loss
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Self-Development
• Eco-Anxiety
• Walk and Talk
• Relationship

The first session is £40 and subsequent sessions are £50 per hour.

I do offer some concessionary sessions for clients that have a limited income.

I am particularly interested in loss and bereavement.  We grieve for many reasons during our lives, from the death of a loved, loss of a job, relationship, illness, way of life and many other situations. I believe that we all go through a process of grieving, sometimes we need help to manage our loss, to readjust and this is where I believe that counselling is particularly helpful.

One of my other interests is meditation and mindfulness.  This involves setting aside time each day to sit quietly and be fully present in that moment with whatever arises.  Some people find this easy but some are challenged by this process, as I have been myself.  I find that it is an important ongoing practice for me that I continue to develop as I feel the benefit in my day to day life.

Meditation and Mindfulness helps with:

• anxiety
• stress
• depression
• illness
• pain management