About Lucy
Lucy Nicolaysen offers a calm, person-focused approach that centres on building trust. She aims to make talking about painful things feel safer and more manageable. Lucy uses straightforward conversation to help people notice what is causing distress and to begin finding new ways forward.
Lucy works with relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, anxiety and stress. She also supports people dealing with grief, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem.
How Lucy works
Additional areas she often addresses include attachment and abandonment worries, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and communication problems. Sessions are grounded in approaches that emphasise the person and their past experiences. Lucy draws on attachment-based ideas to look at patterns that began in early relationships.
She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot and change unhelpful thinking and trauma-focused methods when past events need careful processing. Her way of working is collaborative and paced to the individual. People are invited to talk about what matters most to them and to try practical steps between appointments.
Lucy aims to reduce feelings of stuckness and to support clearer choices in everyday life. Lucy holds BACP accreditation, which indicates professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has six years of clinical experience and works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Sessions are offered in English and available by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
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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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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 her approaches work online
Lucy draws on attachment-based and cognitive behavioural approaches to guide online work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current feelings and behaviours, helping people recognise and change repeating patterns. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical strategies to shift them, which can reduce anxiety, low mood and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lucy will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that fit their needs, goals and preferences. This means the plan can change as progress happens and as different issues become more or less important.
Online therapy offers flexibility and a range of ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter updates, reflective writing or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments and can help maintain continuity when schedules change.
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