About Jody
Jody Lumley is a counsellor who supports people dealing with anxiety, stress and relationship problems. She also helps those facing trauma, grief, depression and addiction. Jody uses a calm, straightforward style to help people feel heard and understood.
She works in a person-centred way, focusing on what each person brings to sessions. That means conversations follow the client’s priorities and pace. Jody also draws on practical strategies from cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness to help manage symptoms day to day.
Background and approach
Her background includes nine years of practice and registration with the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP. She has experience supporting people affected by workplace trauma, childhood trauma, self-harm, domestic violence, PTSD and complex PTSD, and neurodivergent clients such as those with ADHD and autism spectrum presentations.
In sessions she aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. She helps people identify patterns, try new coping options and build small, manageable steps towards change. Practical tools and reflective listening form a regular part of the work.
People often come for short-term help with a specific issue or for longer work to process complex loss or trauma. Jody supports LGBT concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, career and self-esteem worries, and life transitions. She meets clients by video, phone, live chat or text messaging depending on what suits them.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Jody uses a person-centred way of working that focuses on your priorities and how you want to move forward. This approach helps build a working relationship online where the counsellor listens, reflects and follows the client’s pace. It suits a wide range of concerns from anxiety to relationship issues.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, low mood and stress with tools you can practise between sessions. Mindfulness therapy is used alongside this to develop simple attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and improve calm in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and may blend methods to match your goals and preferences. You will decide together how to proceed and which tools to try first.
Online work is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to give flexibility. Video is helpful for more in-depth talking work, phone can be less demanding on bandwidth, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or shorter contacts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on consistent, practical support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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