About Lucy
Lucy Gray is an NCPS counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on anxiety, stress and related concerns. She aims to give people a calm space to be heard, make sense of their experience, and take steps they feel comfortable with. Lucy writes and listens carefully, and keeps sessions practical and grounded.
Her way of working is person-centred and trauma-informed. She brings in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ideas and solution-focused techniques when they help.
Background and approach
Mindfulness, imagery and simple creative tools are often used to notice patterns and try different responses. Lucy often suggests short exercises you can do between sessions. These might be mindful breathing, brief written reflections, or drawing to clarify a difficult feeling.
She sometimes uses the idea of different 'parts' or characters to make complicated emotions easier to talk about. She has particular experience supporting university students and neurodivergent adults with burnout, communication and self-esteem issues. That experience informs how she adapts sessions to match how someone prefers to think and communicate.
Appointments are organised around set working days. Lucy encourages people to set goals together and to move at a pace that feels manageable. The work is collaborative and shaped by what each person needs in the moment.
How Lucy's approaches work online
Lucy draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Client-Centred approaches to help people understand how thoughts, feelings and actions interact, and to build practical coping steps. CBT is used to identify patterns that keep anxiety and low mood in place and to try small behavioural changes that can shift those patterns. Client-centred work focuses on listening, reflecting and following the person's lead so they feel understood and able to choose what to try next. Finding the right approach is part of the therapy itself. Lucy will work collaboratively to decide which methods match a person's needs and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress unfolds. Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversational feel and for using imagery or drawing together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, ongoing reminders, or when a shorter written check-in fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy around study, work and caring commitments.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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