About Lucy
Lucy Middleton is an NCPS-registered counsellor with six years of practice in the United Kingdom. She combines practical problem-solving with a listening, person-centred style. She aims to make therapy straightforward and accessible for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which helps spot unhelpful thoughts and build everyday coping skills. She also offers space for reflective, client-led work where people can talk through difficult experiences and make sense of them in their own time.
How Lucy works
Lucy has worked in a women's charity in an area of low socioeconomic resources. There she supported people facing financial and social barriers, ongoing trauma, and difficult childhood histories. That work shaped her focus on trauma, grief, depression, relationship strain and substance-related concerns.
She currently practises with NHS Talking Therapies and in independent practice. Her experience includes supporting people with eating issues, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, bipolar challenges, and compassion fatigue, among other issues. In sessions she adopts a person-centred stance, letting the client set the agenda while offering tools and strategies when they are useful.
She keeps explanations plain and practical and encourages small, achievable steps. Lucy aims to help people feel more equipped to cope, whether they need short-term support or deeper work on past hurts. She focuses on collaboration, clarity and steady progress.
Lucy lists 4 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| 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 translate to online therapy
Lucy often combines person-centred work with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Person-centred counselling means listening without judgement, following the client’s agenda and helping them name what matters. This suits people who need space to tell their story and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and learning practical ways to manage anxiety, low mood and stress. It is helpful when someone wants concrete strategies and homework to try between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest a mix of methods where useful. Together the person and therapist agree whether to focus on immediate coping skills, longer reflective work, or both as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual feedback matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be more comfortable for people who do not want to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions and people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and daily life while working with registered or accredited professionals.
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