About Lindsay
Lindsay Lightley offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She greets worried parents and individuals with straightforward language and a steady approach. Lindsay uses clear conversation to help people name what feels hard and decide on small steps forward.
She draws on several ways of working to match what someone needs in the moment. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and can help with panic, obsessions and compulsions.
Background and approach
Client-Centred Therapy creates space for a person to lead the work and feel heard. Lindsay also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. With five years of experience in mental health, Lindsay aims to be flexible and responsive rather than sticking to one method.
She helps people cope with grief, low self-esteem, life changes and issues such as attachment, abandonment and isolation. Practical tools and steady listening are offered alongside reflection about deeper patterns. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Lindsay is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP - and of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society - NCPS. People start by choosing the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. From there they can schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability and the subscription plan.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the centre of sessions, giving them space to talk and be heard while the counsellor follows their pace. This approach helps when someone needs empathy and time to understand what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and testing small changes in thinking and behaviour. It is often useful for anxiety, panic and obsessive thoughts because it provides clear tools to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss goals, try methods and adjust the plan as needed so the person feels the sessions are helpful. This is a collaborative process where feedback guides changes to the way sessions are run.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work, and messaging or live chat suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to use a camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when attending in person is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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