About Lucy
Lucy McGroarty offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain or life changes. She helps with trauma, grief, low self-esteem, addiction and issues around intimacy and eating. Sessions are conversational and practical, aimed at making small, manageable changes that add up over time.
She trained with a background in person-centred practice, cognitive behavioural ideas and psychodynamic thinking, and she is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
How Lucy works
That mix means she can listen closely, help you spot unhelpful thought patterns, and look at how past experiences shape present feelings. Lucy often uses creative methods alongside talking, such as imagery and metaphor, when words are hard to find.
Those options can be useful for people who struggle to describe what they feel or who benefit from a different way of exploring things. Online sessions are welcomed and she encourages people to make themselves comfortable during calls. Practical comforts like a hot drink, a blanket or a pet are all fine to have nearby while you talk.
Her style is warm, non-judgemental and focused on building a gentle connection. Over the course of sessions she works alongside people to set goals, try out new ways of coping and notice small shifts in thinking and behaviour. With ten years’ experience, Lucy draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs.
She helps with a broad range of issues including attachment concerns, family problems, body image, addiction and work-related stress.
Lucy lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Lucy works with
The areas below are the ones Lucy 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and creating a supportive connection. The counsellor follows your lead, encourages you to talk at your own pace and helps you feel understood, which can be especially useful for coping with stress, low self-esteem and grief.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and teaches practical techniques to change them. It suits people wanting tools to manage anxiety, depression, addictive behaviours or unhelpful thinking patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy works on recognising and expressing core emotions and improving emotional bonds. It can help with intimacy issues, relationship distress and feelings of isolation by making emotions clearer and more manageable.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and will suggest ideas to try. Decisions about methods are made together, and they can shift over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and several ways to connect. Video calls let you use visual cues and sit face to face, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short break, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to choose the format that feels most comfortable.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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