About Lucy
Lucy McGroarty is a counsellor who aims to help people facing worry, grief, relationship strain, phobias and other painful life issues. She writes plainly and listens without judgement, offering a steady presence while someone talks through difficult moments. Her approachable manner is calm and welcoming for people who want clear, practical support.
She draws on a mix of person-centred work, cognitive behavioural ideas and psychodynamic thinking to shape sessions. That means she focuses on what matters to the client now, looks at unhelpful patterns of thinking and pays attention to past experiences that still affect feelings and choices.
Background and approach
The approach is adapted to each person rather than following a single script. Lucy also uses creative tools such as imagery and metaphor for people who find words hard at first. These techniques can help name feelings and open new ways of thinking about a problem.
Sessions often include simple exercises or reflective tasks to try between meetings. She has ten years’ practice and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Lucy offers therapy online by video or phone, plus live chat and text messaging, so people can pick what fits their life.
Lucy emphasises the relationship in therapy. She aims to be open, non-judgemental and patient while someone works through stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, self-esteem concerns, family issues, ADHD or other challenges. The focus is on small steps forward and finding what helps each person day to day.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-Centred Therapy puts the person at the heart of each session, with the therapist offering empathic listening and support. This approach helps people feel understood and to explore what matters most to them in a calm, non-judgemental way.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new ways of responding. It often uses short exercises and practical strategies that can be worked on between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage phobias and change unhelpful habits.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and reshaping emotional responses within relationships and personal experience. It can help people recognise core feelings and improve how they express and manage those emotions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods as needed and agree a plan with the client. That collaborative process helps decide whether a CBT task, a person-centred conversation or emotion-focused exercises suit the presenting issue.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face contact without travel, while phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins or a way to reflect in writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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