About Lucy
Lucy Nicolaysen is a BACP counsellor who focuses on building trust and a calm space to talk. She believes talking through what is distressing you can start the healing process. Sessions are a chance to say how you feel and describe difficult experiences in your own words.
She works with people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression and grief. Relationship and family difficulties are common topics, along with trauma, panic and issues with self‑esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing addiction, sleeping or eating problems and the strain of caregiving. Lucy uses approaches that centre on attachment and on the person in front of her. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot patterns of thinking and Trauma‑Focused Therapy when past hurts need careful attention.
Systemic ideas inform how relationship and family dynamics are understood in sessions. Sessions are practical and conversational. Lucy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, learn ways to calm panic, and try small changes between meetings.
She aims to reduce feelings of stuckness and to increase clarity about what a person wants next. She has six years of clinical experience and works with people across a wide range of life events, including midlife change, parenting stress, bereavement, and challenges around intimacy or identity. Sessions are delivered in English for clients in the United Kingdom and beyond.
Her approach is steady and person focused, suited to anyone who wants a therapist who listens, reflects and offers straightforward tools to move forward.
How Lucy’s approaches work online and in session
Attachment‑Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape how someone connects now. Online sessions can help surface patterns of trust and closeness so people can try new ways of relating and feel less overwhelmed by relationship worries.Client‑Centred work focuses on listening and reflecting back what a person is feeling. This approach helps people be heard, build self‑understanding and explore values when dealing with anxiety or life changes.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps identify upsetting thought patterns and offers simple exercises to change them. In remote sessions this can include practical breathing or grounding techniques, thought records and short behaviour experiments between meetings.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals and preferences and try methods that fit. Plans are reviewed as work progresses so the approach can be adjusted together.
Online formats provide flexibility. Video calls allow face‑to‑face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check‑in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, regular check‑ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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