About Kate
Kate Lacy is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with 25 years of experience. She holds the NCPS credential and approaches each person as the expert on their own story. Kate aims to offer calm, steady support while people take the first steps towards change.
She focuses on everyday concerns such as stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. Relationship and intimacy-related difficulties are also areas she commonly helps with, alongside mood challenges like depression and grief.
Background and approach
Addictions, eating and sleeping issues, and coping with life changes are included in her work too. Kate uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps with practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Client-centred methods make space for people to lead the pace and focus of sessions. Her wider focus includes concerns such as ADHD, chronic illness and caregiver stress, body image, and separation or divorce.
This means she often helps people dealing with linked practical and emotional pressures. She describes counselling as a collaborative process aimed at building resilience and clarity. Sessions can include short-term tools and longer conversations depending on the issue.
People come for coaching-style work, coping strategies, or deeper emotional exploration, and Kate adapts her style to the person and their goals.
Approaches that translate to online counselling
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand repeating dynamics. It can be useful for struggles with trust, commitment issues, or attachment worries in adult relationships.Client-centred therapy puts the person in charge of the conversation, offering a non-directive space to explore what matters most. This approach supports self-esteem work and emotional processing through listening and reflection.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing practical changes. It often suits anxiety, stress and mood problems where structured steps and homework can reduce symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Kate collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the mix over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when a camera is not wanted, and live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when a written approach feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and mobility needs while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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