About Lyndsey
Lyndsey McCartney is a counsellor with eight years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety and grief. Lyndsey also supports people facing relationship problems, parenting strain, career challenges and depression.
Her manner is warm and respectful and she aims to create a straightforward, non-judgemental space for conversations. Her background includes work with bereavement and loss across many kinds of endings.
Background and approach
She has supported people through the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, loss of health and job loss. She listens for what matters most and helps people make sense of painful experiences. Lyndsey uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs.
She draws on client-centred ways of listening, cognitive behavioural ideas to try different actions, and mindfulness skills for managing difficult thoughts. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic thinking also inform how she explores patterns and goals. Sessions tend to be practical and conversational.
Lyndsey will help set small, manageable steps and check progress as work continues. She aims to balance emotional support with tools that can be used between sessions. People reach out for help with anger, low self-esteem, social anxiety, compassion fatigue and the emptiness that follows difficult life changes.
Lyndsey can also work with issues such as attachment or caregiver stress, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose. Her approach is to tailor support to the person in front of her and their current priorities.
How Lyndsey’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The counsellor follows the person’s lead, reflecting feelings and helping people explore what matters to them. This suits anyone who needs space to talk and to feel heard.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and tries small experiments to change them. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and unhelpful habits because it offers practical steps to test different ways of coping.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity to stress and to improve day-to-day focus. These skills can be practiced between sessions to help manage difficult moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lyndsey will discuss different methods and collaborate on what feels most useful for the person’s goals and preferences. She adapts the mix of listening, practical exercises and reflective questions as therapy progresses.
Online sessions make it easier to fit counselling around daily life. Video calls let people read expressions and hold a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit those who prefer typing or need flexible, on-the-go contact. These options help people access therapy from wherever they are in the UK and arrange sessions that fit their week.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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