About Lucy
Lucy McLaren greets people with calm focus and plain talk. She helps those feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or loss. She listens without judgement and treats each person with respect and warmth.
Lucy uses straightforward conversation to help people make sense of change. She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to follow the person’s lead and create a safe space for honest discussion. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions keep problems going and teaches practical steps to change them.
How Lucy works
With eight years of experience in the United Kingdom, Lucy has supported people facing relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, eating difficulties and grief. She also helps with concerns such as attachment and abandonment, control and communication problems, dissociation and the effects of domestic violence. Sessions are collaborative.
Lucy helps clients set small, clear goals and tries out techniques tailored to real life. Expect gentle challenge alongside practical tools you can use between sessions. Her work can include conversations about parenting strain, career stress, and coping with major life changes.
People can explore body image, self-esteem and commitment worries at a pace that suits them. Lucy aims to make the process manageable and relevant to everyday life.
Lucy lists 2 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Lucy’s approaches adapt to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities. In practice that means sessions centre on what matters to the client, with the counsellor reflecting feelings and helping people find their own solutions. This approach is helpful for talking through grief, identity questions and relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours. It breaks problems into manageable parts and uses practical exercises, such as thought records or activity planning, that clients can try between sessions. CBT is often used for anxiety, low mood and stress management.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lucy will discuss goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first, adjusting as the relationship develops. The decision is collaborative and may combine listening-based support with concrete skill-building.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or shorter sessions. These options give greater flexibility for people balancing work, family and travel.
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