About me
You may be here because you’re struggling with anxiety or overthinking, putting enormous pressure on yourself, or finding yourself caught in patterns that you don’t fully understand. Perhaps things look okay from the outside, but inside you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or simply not like yourself.
If you’re struggling, I want to help you.
I’m Lucy, a qualified psychodynamic counsellor and registered member of the BACP. I offer online and in-person counselling for adults in a warm, compassionate and down-to-earth way.
Therapy doesn’t have to be somewhere you simply talk about how you feel each week. I believe it can help you make sense of what’s happening, find ways to manage what you’re experiencing now, and work towards where you want to be.
How I work
My core training is psychodynamic, which means I’m interested in what sits beneath the surface, the experiences, relationships and patterns that have shaped how you feel and respond today. We can explore not only what is happening in your life now, but why certain feelings, relationships or behaviours may keep repeating.
However, I don’t believe that one therapeutic approach works for everyone. I work flexibly and draw on ideas and techniques from different therapeutic approaches depending on what you need. This might mean exploring the past and the deeper roots of a difficulty, while at other times focusing much more on what is happening right now and finding practical ways to manage anxiety, overwhelming emotions or difficult situations.
I want therapy to be something we do together. I can be proactive in our sessions, helping you notice patterns, asking questions and offering ideas or strategies when they may be useful, while still giving you the space to explore things at your own pace.
Ultimately, I want therapy to make a difference in your life — not simply help you understand yourself intellectually.
Anxiety, ADHD, autism and the pressure we put on ourselves
I have a particular interest in working with anxiety, ADHD, autism, perfectionism and the pressure we can put on ourselves.
You may appear capable on the outside while internally feeling anxious, overwhelmed or exhausted. You might overthink conversations, worry about disappointing people, struggle to switch off, hold yourself to impossibly high standards, or feel as though you’re constantly trying to keep everything together.
Neurodivergence can also affect how we experience relationships, emotions, work, self-esteem and everyday life. You don’t need a formal diagnosis to explore any of this in therapy.
Relationships, affairs and sex & love addiction
I also have particular experience working with people experiencing difficulties around relationships, infidelity, affairs, and sex and love addiction.
These experiences can carry enormous amounts of shame, secrecy and confusion. You may have been unfaithful, be struggling to make sense of your behaviour, or feel caught between the life you have and something you feel you need or want. Perhaps you keep finding yourself drawn into relationships or behaviours that are causing difficulties, but you don’t fully understand why.
Therapy offers somewhere you can talk honestly about things you may feel unable to tell anyone else. My role isn’t to condemn or shame you. At the same time, therapy isn’t about avoiding responsibility. We can take the impact of your choices seriously while exploring what may be driving them and what you would like to change.
Whatever brings you to therapy, my aim isn’t simply to help you understand why you feel the way you do. I want our work to help you feel differently, cope better and have more choice over what happens next.
Next steps
Please email me to book an assessment, and if you decide to go ahead, we can either book in ongoing sessions or a fixed-term set of sessions. I offer therapy online, by telephone or face-to-face.
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Contemporary Psychodynamic Counselling (BACP Accredited )
Certificate in Psychodynamic Counselling (BACP Accredited)
Additional Training:
- Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating
- Processing Anger
- Using an Attachment-Informed Model
- Relational Trauma
- Internal Family Systems (IFS): Development, Application and Transformational Model
- DBT
- Dissociation in Children & Adolescents
- Problematic Pornography use
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.
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Fees
£70.00 per session
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