About Lalida
Lalida Puengklai is a counsellor who helps people troubled by anxiety, stress and relationship problems. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, grief, anger, and major life changes. Lalida welcomes clients who are navigating complicated family issues or struggling with feelings of isolation and emptiness.
Lalida works in a straightforward, down-to-earth way. She listens first and helps clients make sense of how past events affect their daily coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused on understanding patterns, naming difficult feelings, and finding small practical steps that fit into a busy life. Her style blends different evidence-based techniques to suit each person. She encourages self-compassion and helps people recognise strengths they might have missed.
Conversations aim to reduce shame and build clearer ways of relating to others and to oneself. Lalida trained at the University of Derby and holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has three years of clinical experience and has worked in the NHS and charities supporting people affected by sexual and domestic abuse.
Her background includes work with trauma, mood disorders, eating concerns, and stress-related difficulties. Sessions are offered in English and Thai, and she works with adults aged 18 to 70. Lalida accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Her work draws on evidence-based techniques that help people understand feelings and change unhelpful patterns. One common approach she uses focuses on understanding attachment and relational patterns to explain why relationships and self-worth can feel unstable; this helps with anxiety, abandonment worries and relationship difficulties. Another strand emphasises mindfulness and compassion-focused methods to reduce self-criticism and manage overwhelming emotions, which can be useful for depression, guilt and shame. These methods are presented in simple steps and practical exercises to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss what feels most helpful and adapt methods to match each person's goals, pace and preferences. This is a collaborative process where the client helps shape which techniques are tried and when they move on to different tools.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or slower reflective exchanges. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and to use therapy flexibly alongside work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Thai
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