About Lucy
Lucy Caplan is a BACP counsellor with 17 years of experience helping people manage anxiety and many other life stresses. She takes a calm, straightforward approach and aims to make conversations easy to follow. She meets people where they are and focuses on the things they want to work on first.
Lucy has worked across a wide range of concerns including relationship breakdown, bereavement, trauma and addiction. She also supports people facing work pressures, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, money worries and feelings of isolation.
Background and approach
Many seek her help for stress, depression and coping with major life changes. Her way of working mixes approaches to suit each person. She is client centred and solution focused, so sessions tend to start with what matters most to the person and move towards practical steps.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques and motivational interviewing can be used when helpful to change unhelpful thinking and to build motivation for change. Sessions can be longer term, short term or time limited depending on the goal. Lucy offers phone and video appointments and can work with people in the United Kingdom as well as international clients who want online sessions.
She aims to be warm, non-judgemental and straightforward in session. Lucy qualified as a counsellor in 2007 and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Her background and flexible approach make her comfortable working with both practical problems and deeper emotional issues.
How Lucy blends tried approaches for online support
Client-Centred Therapy places your concerns at the heart of the work and helps you set the agenda. It is helpful when you want someone to listen, reflect and follow what matters most to you. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, stress and low mood. Motivational Interviewing focuses on increasing motivation for change and can be useful when people are wrestling with habits or addiction.Deciding which approach to use is something to do together. Lucy will talk through your goals and preferences, try out ways of working, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process makes it easier to find methods that feel useful and realistic for your life.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is close to a face-to-face meeting, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera, and messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving or travel and let people maintain continuity of support even when life is busy.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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