Lindsay Lightley , BACP, NCPS

Lindsay Lightley welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck or uncertain about next steps. She writes in a direct, calm way and aims to make the first conversations easy to manage. If you are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem or life changes, she can help you talk through what matters most.

Lindsay combines more than five years of experience in mental health with an adaptable approach. She draws on client-centred ideas to follow what the person brings, and uses cognitive behavioural tools to tackle worrying thoughts and unhelpful behaviours. She also brings psychodynamic thinking to help uncover patterns from past experience that affect present life.

Sessions focus on practical steps alongside space to reflect. Lindsay helps people identify small changes that fit their day-to-day life. She works at a pace set by each person, and will shift methods if something is not working.

Common issues she supports include abandonment and attachment concerns, body image, communication and control problems, guilt and shame, and the emotional effects of divorce and separation. She also has experience with obsessions and compulsions, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, isolation and life-purpose questions.

Lindsay is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS. She sees people in the United Kingdom and delivers sessions in English. Getting started simply means choosing a session format and arranging a time that fits the client.

How Lindsay uses therapeutic approaches online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the person brings, giving space to feel heard and to find personal solutions. It can help when someone needs support to make sense of feelings or to build confidence over time.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical techniques to reduce anxiety, panic symptoms and repetitive worrying. This approach works well for people who want step-by-step strategies they can apply between sessions.

Psychodynamic Therapy explores how past experiences shape current patterns. It can help when repeating relationship or emotional patterns are causing distress and someone wants to understand why they react in certain ways.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lindsay will work with each person to choose methods that suit their goals, preferences and day-to-day life. She adapts plans and will try different ways of working if something does not feel helpful.

Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls let you see and speak in real time for fuller conversation, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing written reflections between sessions. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, family and other commitments.