About Lisa
Lisa Badman-Dunphy is a BACP counsellor with four years of practice and a long background in health and social care. She turned to counselling after more than 20 years working in the NHS and in services for older people, sexual health, health visiting and special educational needs and disabilities. She offers one-to-one therapy online and by phone, usually meeting once a week.
Sessions can be short-term or open-ended to fit different needs.
Background and approach
She focuses on exploring the roots of feelings, thoughts and behaviour. Psychodynamic Therapy guides her work, so she pays attention to patterns that repeat and how past experiences shape the present. In sessions she aims to bring unconscious dynamics into view so clients can better understand themselves.
Common concerns she helps people with include stress, anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. She also supports those coping with relationship or intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting and career worries. Additional focus areas include body image, attachment and family of origin issues, and living with chronic illness or caregiving demands.
Her approach is described as open, empathetic and respectful. She creates a non-judgemental space for people to talk through what matters most to them. Clients who want to explore motivation, identity or recurring patterns often find this reflective style useful.
Sessions are offered in English and are available for people in the United Kingdom. She works with a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and scheduling is arranged after a short matching questionnaire and an initial booking.
Psychodynamic work and online therapy options
Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past relationships and early experiences shape current feelings and behaviour. It involves talking about thoughts, memories and dreams to spot repeating patterns and understand why certain reactions happen. This approach can help with anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues.In online sessions she uses the psychodynamic framework to help clients reflect on what matters most to them. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - the therapist will work with each person to decide if short-term focused work or a longer open-ended path is more suitable. Goals, preferences and day-to-day needs guide that decision together.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging allows practical flexibility. Video is useful for a closer face-to-face feel, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, parenting and busy lives while keeping a consistent weekly rhythm when that helps progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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