About Lalida
Lalida Puengklai helps people facing stress, anxiety, low mood, trauma and relationship difficulties. She offers calm, steady support for those carrying grief, anger, compassion fatigue, or struggling with self‑esteem. Lalida greets clients in a warm, straightforward way and focuses on helping them take practical steps forward.
Her sessions are conversational and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people make sense of how past events affect daily life. The work often includes looking at patterns in relationships, attachment worries, and feelings of shame or emptiness.
How Lalida works
Lalida aims to help people rediscover strengths they may have forgotten. Clients can expect a mix of gentle guidance and practical tools. Lalida uses approaches that encourage self‑understanding and skills for managing strong emotions.
She helps people with things like panic, intrusive thoughts, dissociation, body image concerns and family of origin issues. The pace is set by the client and adjusted as trust grows. Lalida trained at the University of Derby and holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
She has three years of professional experience and has worked in the NHS and charities supporting people affected by sexual and domestic abuse. Sessions are offered in English and Thai and she works with adults across a wide age range. Lalida practises from the United Kingdom and also accepts international clients, using online formats to make therapy more accessible.
What Lalida works with
The areas below are the ones Lalida selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, Thai |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches for online therapy
Many of the techniques Lalida uses focus on understanding feelings and building practical coping skills. Cognitive approaches help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety and low mood; this can reduce panic and improve daily functioning. Person-centred work creates a non-judgemental space where clients are listened to, which supports self-discovery and emotional processing. Attachment-informed ideas look at how early relationships shape current patterns and help people develop different ways of relating and feeling safer in themselves.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Lalida collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time, combining exploration with skills-building so the therapy feels useful and relevant.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use a camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, slower reflection or times when writing feels more comfortable. These options give flexibility, making it possible to keep therapy going despite busy schedules or travel.
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