About Lydia
Lydia Jenkins helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She supports clients facing grief, trauma and abuse, difficulties with intimacy, and the strain of major life changes. Lydia also offers support around ADHD, relationship and family concerns, sleep problems, anger and career pressures.
Lydia works in a straightforward, practical way. She listens first and asks what matters most to the person in front of her.
How Lydia works
Sessions aim to build small, usable skills as well as clearer thinking about patterns that keep causing pain. Her approach draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, attachment-based ideas and client-centred practice. Lydia also uses existential and mindfulness ways of working when they fit the person’s needs.
This mix means she can offer reflective conversation alongside simple exercises to try between sessions. With five years of experience and membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Lydia brings steady, practical support to sessions. She focuses on helping people find ways to manage intense feelings, cope with change and make decisions that fit their values.
Lydia welcomes people from different backgrounds and accepts international clients. Work can be short term or longer term depending on what someone wants, and she aims to help each person feel more able to move forward at their own pace.
Lydia lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Lydia works with
The areas below are the ones Lydia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Lydia's approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression and for getting unstuck when life feels overwhelming. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early patterns of connection affect current relationships and emotional reactions, helping people understand why they respond as they do and try new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lydia will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they will try methods that feel like a good fit. This collaborative process means the plan can change as needs shift and small experiments help tell what works best.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text-based messaging lets people write things down between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel while keeping sessions consistent and focused.
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