About Kate
Kate Lacy is a counsellor with 25 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds the NCPS credential. Kate focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression, as well as relationship and intimacy-related difficulties.
Her style is straightforward and respectful. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on. Sessions aim to help people make small, practical changes and regain motivation and confidence.
How Kate works
Over her career Kate has helped people through grief, trauma and addiction concerns. She also supports those coping with sleep and eating problems, anger, career transitions and major life changes. Additional areas of focus include ADHD, attachment issues and caregiver stress.
Kate draws on a mix of therapeutic approaches to suit different needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns, client-centred ways to keep the work focused on the person, and cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person.
Kate listens, asks practical questions and offers tools to try between sessions. She works with people who want coaching-style support as well as those seeking deeper psychological work. Sessions are offered via video, phone, live chat and text messaging.
People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on availability.
Kate lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kate works with
The areas below are the ones Kate selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches and online support for relationship and emotional issues
Kate incorporates attachment-based ideas to examine how past relationships shape current patterns. This helps when worries about trust, closeness or repeated relationship problems are part of the difficulty. She also uses client-centred methods that keep sessions focused on the person's own goals and feelings, offering a respectful, listening-led space for someone to make sense of their situation.In addition, Kate draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviours. That approach is useful for anxiety, low mood and managing reactions to stress. Together these approaches offer both understanding and practical steps to try between sessions, and the therapist will talk with the client to decide which tools fit best.
Online work can be flexible and make counselling easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when that feels important. Phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and suit someone who prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging make brief check-ins and written reflections possible between longer sessions. These options help people access consistent support while adapting to their schedule and communication preferences.
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