Lisa Peett

Training, qualifications & experience

• UKCP registered psychotherapist
• BACP (Accredited) psychotherapist, counsellor and life coach
• MA / Advanced Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling from the Minster Centre, London
• Specialist training and experience volunteering for ChildLine and Cruse Bereavement Care
• I previously worked in marketing and communications, business development, change programmes and project management across the corporate, public and voluntary sectors
• In addition to LKP Counselling, my private practice, I continue to volunteer at a low cost service for adolescents and adults of all ages

My work with clients

Each client's story is unique and I wonder how helpful it is sometimes to assign labels - perhaps losing something of the individual experience if we rely on them for understanding. I also appreciate that it can be reassuring to potential clients to have a sense of the sorts of presenting concerns I have worked with. The following is offered with the hope that you will accept it as illustrative rather than defining.

• After the death of a loved one following a long illness, or unexpectedly, or by suicide
• Depression, including before and after pregnancy and childbirth (perinatal and post-natal)
• Difficulties adapting to a new life stage, including adolescence to adulthood, parenting, separation and aging
• Feeling overwhelmed, stressed or anxious, including experiencing panic attacks
• Low confidence or self-esteem, often accompanied by a harsh inner critic
• Making positive choices including maintaining recovery from alcohol addiction
• Recognising destructive patterns of behaviour including expressing anger, self-harm, substance misuse and disordered eating
• Relationship difficulties, including problems with communication, feeling unheard or unseen and infidelity
• Sense of feeling stuck or that something is missing, often including concerns about the future
• Concerns about sexual intimacy including questioning sexuality

Other areas of counselling I deal with

• Resilience building
• Bereaved by suicide
• Parenting concerns
• Experience of living or working abroad
• Living with brain injury
• Communication skills

Further information

• Ramp access and a lift are available at Chiltern House where there is a free car park available on a first come first served basis
• Additional parking is available on-street (metered) and at two pay and display car parks within a few minutes walk (opposite the station and on Meadow Road)
• Day and evening sessions offered