About Lucy
Lucy McLaren is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or major life changes. She works in a calm, non-judgemental way and listens first to understand each person’s situation. She makes time to help clients find manageable steps forward and to build coping skills that fit their life.
With eight years of professional experience in the United Kingdom, Lucy has supported people dealing with grief, loneliness and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She also works with difficulties linked to trauma, addictions and eating or body image concerns. Her approach is practical and down to earth, focused on what helps someone feel steadier day to day. Sessions combine a client-centred attitude with cognitive behavioural ideas.
That means she follows the person's lead while offering tools to spot and change unhelpful thinking and routines. Lucy keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused when that suits the client. Lucy values working at the client’s pace.
She helps people explore attachment and abandonment worries, manage anger or control issues, and cope with major life transitions. She also supports those dealing with caregiver stress, relationship commitment doubts and dissociation-related difficulties. Therapy is offered in English and is delivered online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and book according to the therapist’s schedule.
How Lucy’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy is about being listened to and respected. The counsellor follows your priorities, reflecting your thoughts and feelings so you can make sense of them. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk things through and to feel understood.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It uses simple exercises to spot patterns and try small changes that can reduce anxiety, low mood or unhelpful habits. CBT techniques often suit people wanting practical strategies to manage day-to-day difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then try methods together to see what helps. That collaborative planning means the work can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions via video calls let you see and speak with the counsellor much like an in-person appointment. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins or a way to reflect in writing. These options give flexibility for different schedules, travel limits and energy levels.
Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does Lucy help with?
What is her therapeutic style like?
How much experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
In which language are sessions provided?
Which session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I start therapy with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.