About me
Are you struggling with anxiety, stress or feeling overwhelmed? Have you experienced trauma, low mood or feel stuck?
I offer counselling to support you to heal, grow and reconnect with yourself. I provide a safe space to explore and process your thoughts, feelings as well as assisting you to build resilience and create meaning change.
How Counselling Can Help
I offer a supportive, compassionate, and non-judgemental space where you can feel heard, understood, and accepted. Through the choice of different therapies, I can help you explore your thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a way that feels safe and empowering. Together, we can work towards understanding patterns, building resilience, improving emotional wellbeing, and helping you reconnect with yourself. Whether you are facing anxiety, trauma, stress, low self-esteem, or simply feeling out of balance, I will support you at your own pace towards healing, growth, and positive change.
Trauma Informed Counselling
Trauma-informed counselling is a gentle and supportive approach that recognises the impact trauma and difficult life experiences can have on emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing.
It provides a safe, compassionate, and non-judgemental space where clients can feel heard, respected, and supported throughout their healing journey.
Trauma-informed counselling understands that trauma can affect emotions, relationships, confidence, behaviours, and the nervous system, often leaving people feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or emotionally exhausted.
By working at a pace that feels safe and comfortable for each individual, this approach helps clients build trust, develop emotional resilience, reconnect with themselves, and move towards healing, balance, and wellbeing
Eco Therapy / walk and talk
Eco therapy is a gentle and holistic approach that supports emotional wellbeing through connection with nature. Spending time in natural environments can help reduce stress, anxiety, and feelings of overwhelm, while encouraging calm, grounding, and self-awareness. Eco therapy may involve mindful walks, connecting with the senses outdoors, meditation in nature, or simply using the natural world as part of the healing process. It can help clients feel more present, emotionally balanced, and connected to both themselves and the world around them. By combining therapeutic support with the calming benefits of nature, eco therapy offers a nurturing space for reflection, healing, and personal growth.
Journal Therapy
Journal therapy is a supportive and reflective approach that uses writing to help explore thoughts, emotions, and life experiences. Through guided journaling, clients can express feelings in a safe and personal way, helping to reduce stress, increase self-awareness, and gain clarity around difficult emotions or situations. Writing can support emotional healing, help process trauma, challenge limiting beliefs, and encourage personal growth and mindfulness. Journal therapy can also provide a space for reflection, self-discovery, and understanding patterns that may be affecting emotional wellbeing. Used alongside counselling and holistic therapies, journaling can become a valuable tool for healing, balance, and deeper connection with yourself.
Life Coaching
Life coaching is a supportive and empowering approach that helps individuals create positive change, achieve personal goals, and build a more balanced and fulfilling life. Through guidance, encouragement, and self-reflection, life coaching helps clients gain clarity, overcome limiting beliefs, improve confidence, and move forward with greater purpose and direction. It focuses on personal growth, mindset, motivation, and helping individuals recognise their strengths and potential. Life coaching can support many areas of life, including relationships, confidence, emotional wellbeing, career goals, stress management, and creating healthier habits. Working together, clients are encouraged to develop greater self-awareness, resilience, and the tools needed to create meaningful and lasting change.
Somatic Therapy
I am passionate about providing a therapeutic experience that is tailored to each individual client and their unique needs, recognising that no two healing journeys are the same. I have a particular interest in understanding how trauma affects both the mind and the body, which is why I am currently studying somatic therapy for complex trauma. This deeper understanding allows me to explore how trauma can be held within the nervous system and physical body, helping clients reconnect with themselves in a gentle and compassionate way. My aim is to offer a holistic and personalised approach that supports emotional healing, self-awareness, nervous system regulation, and lasting personal growth.
My Experience
As well as working in private practice, my previous roles include lead counsellor where I managed the counselling service for a local charity and worked as a counsellor. I have also worked as a crisis café lead for another charity, where I ran a 'walk in' crisis service. I have experience working in a secondary school as a wellbeing and mental health support officer, supporting students with their emotional and mental health.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma (ongoing)
- Trauma-Informed Counselling (2026)
- CPCAB Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (2016)
- CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling (2014)
- CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies (2012)
- CPCAB Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills (2011)
- CPCAB Level 2 Award in Introduction to Counselling Skills (2010)
Further training
- Journal Therapy Facilitator (2024)
- Life Coaching Diploma (2024)
- Couples Therapy (2024)
- Introduction To Coaching (2023)
- Ecotherapy: Walk and Talk (2023)
- Certificate in online and telephone counselling (2023)
- Introduction to self-harm (2021)
- Mental Health and wellbeing in adolescence (2021)
- Prevent training (2020)
- Psychological Distress in young adults (2020)
- Alcohol and Drug Awareness (2018)
- Understanding Attachment Theory (2018)
- Trauma Training (2017)
- Loss and Bereavement Awareness (2017)
- Working with victims of sexual abuse-unlocking, understanding & empowering (2016)
- Finding the real self - Working with narcissistic and borderline presentations (2016)
- Trauma, Dissociation & Recovery (2016)
- Understanding the impact of sexual trauma, victim responses and the perceptions of sexual offenders (2016)
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
£55.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
- Free Consultation
- 1-1 counselling is £55 per session
- Eco-therapy sessions £55 per session
- Life Coaching 1-1 £55 per session
I am based in Rothwell Northamptonshire, just a short drive from Market Harborough, Kettering, Corby, Desborough and surrounding areas.
When I work
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I work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9am until 5pm.
Further information
Lisa Ratcliffe is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She holds a Level 5 Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, works in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework, and is insured.
