Lucy Parker
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About me
If you want to understand yourself better and heal from life's wounds, working together therapeutically can help. You will be fully seen and heard in a space where you can tell your story how you need to. Free from judgment, criticism or consequence.
Working in this way can help you gain insight into how you behave, feel, and think, offering answers to your question of 'why'.
You may wish to:
- Heal from painful life events
- Explore your feelings around bereavement & loss
- Connect the many conflicting parts of you & discover your inner sense of Self
- Boost your mood & energy, combatting depression
- Reduce your anxiety & stress
- Live a more fulfilling and joyful life
Counselling helps you unpick your tangled past life to gain clarity and calm in the now. Coaching enables you to make informed changes to impact your future vision and goals.
Every journey of self-discovery begins with one simple step. However daunting that first step may seem, I will support and guide you from start to finish on your journey toward health, happiness and healing.
About Lucy:
Since 2010, I have worked with thousands of clients as a Yoga Therapist, Meditation Teacher, and Breath-work facilitator. Having added a postgraduate degree in Integrative Counselling and Coaching to my skill set, I am now uniquely qualified to work with all aspects of the human condition, offering a 360-degree approach to health and healing.
My approach respects and validates our bodies and their unique language as much as our hearts and minds. Calming techniques, such as breathing practices, meditation, or body scans, help you stay in the present moment and reduce anxiety or panic. Through talking therapy, somatic experience, internal system thinking, and tuning into the wisdom of the nervous system, I see you and your pathway to healing through a fully holistic lens.
Working within the IFS (Internal Family Systems) framework offers much insight and self-understanding. It invites you to build a precious and personal map of your inner world and how it relates to your external environment. You will be invited to understand the many parts of yourself that play out in your inner world and encouraged to become more self-led, validating and inviting balance and harmony into your system.
Specialisms:
While therapy is beneficial for all I have some areas of specialism.
- Bereavement Therapy
- Grief
- PTSD
- Chronic pain
- Anxiety
- End of life
- Trauma
- Stress
- Depression
- Living with cancer
- Creative Counselling
- Working with 'Parts' and validating 'Self' through the lens of IFS.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have been working privately with clients as a yoga, breath-work and meditation teacher since 2010, incorporating counselling and coaching work since 2022.
Working therapeutically with hundreds of clients has taught me one key thing: “We are all ultimately searching for health, to feel truly whole.”
I have gained a level 7 Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling & Coaching from The University of East London. This unique, pioneering course takes a fully integrated 360-degree view of every person, seamlessly and progressively exploring their past, present and future dynamics within the therapy space. We integrate counselling and coaching to support you in all aspects of your journey through life, past present and future.
In 2024, I completed my Level 1 Training in IFS Therapy through IFS UK.
Modalities integrated:
- Person Centred
- Psychodynamic
- Transactional analysis
- IFS
- Gestalt
- CBT
- ACT
- GROW
- Dexter & Dexter
Qualifications and training:
- Level 1 Training in IFS Therapy through IFS UK (2024)
- Post Graduate Diploma (Level 7) in Integrative Counselling and Coaching, University of East London (2023)
- Bereavement Counsellor, St Raphael’s Hospice, London (2022 - 2023)
- Meditation Teacher Training, Alexander Filmer-Lorch (2016 & 2017)
- Yoga Teacher Training, Yoga Campus London (2011)
- Many varied CPD training courses
- CPD Workshop in IFS
- CPD Workshop in Sandtray therapy
- Lifelong learner
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
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Specialisms:
Whilst therapy is beneficial for all aspects of the human condition, I have some areas of special interest, experience and training. These include:
- Bereavement Therapy
- Grief
- PTSD
- Chronic Pain
- Anxiety
- End of life
- Trauma
- Stress
- Depression
- Cancer Treatment
- Creative Counselling
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Additional information
All sessions are a full hour, 60 minutes long. You can visit my beautiful, calming, comfortable therapy rooms at Tunbridge Wells or Groombridge. Online sessions can also be arranged via Zoom.
All sessions are £70 and can be paid for weekly or in sets of sessions via bank transfer or debit/credit card.
When I work
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I can be flexible with my diary to find a time that is convenient for you and your therapeutic journey. Please get in touch, and we can discuss a time that is mutually convenient.
Further information
I offer a FREE 15-minute discovery call at your convenience to discuss your therapeutic needs and aims. This can be booked through my website. After this call, we can meet for a first introductory session before we agree on the best next step for your therapeutic journey.
Please visit my website for further information or to read current blogs including more information about IFS Therapy and my Top 10 Counselling Myth Busters for advice on how to choose your new counsellor - https://embarkcounselling.co.uk/counsellingblog/counsellingtipstunbridgewells.
