About Lucy
Lucy Nicholas is a BACP counsellor with eight years of experience. She aims to offer a calm, non-judgemental space where people can be heard. Her style is warm and sensitive, and she centres the relationship in every session.
Lucy works with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, stress, grief and low self-esteem. She also helps people facing life changes, relationship strain, issues around intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, and career-related worry.
Background and approach
Additional areas of focus include guilt and shame, self-love and women's issues. Her approach is flexible rather than one-size-fits-all. Lucy draws on client-centred ways of working to follow each person's pace and priorities.
She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot unhelpful thinking patterns and solution-focused techniques to set short-term, practical goals. Lucy trained in counselling and psychology, earning a first-class honours degree and a degree in psychology. She has worked across counselling charities, schools and independent practice, which means she has experience with many life situations people bring to therapy.
She has been delivering therapy by video and phone for six years and holds a post-qualification certificate in online counselling. While her training informs the sessions, Lucy sees the client as the expert on their own life and works alongside them to find what helps.
How Lucy’s approaches translate to online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and acceptance. The counsellor follows the client’s lead, offers empathy and helps people feel understood, which can be especially helpful for anxiety and grief.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It teaches simple strategies to spot unhelpful thinking and try different ways of responding to stress and low mood.
Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on small, achievable steps and what is already working. It suits people who want short-term, practical goals to cope with life changes or specific problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lucy will discuss goals, preferences and how you like to work, then adapt techniques together so sessions fit your needs. That collaborative process helps shape whether more listening, practical tools or goal-focused steps are used.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion when visual cues help, phone sessions can be easier when audio is all that is needed, and live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping continuity of care with a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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