What you need to know before you start counselling
You’ve taken the plunge, and scheduled your first counselling session (after, of course, reading my tips on how to find a great counsellor – see
A qualified and experienced, award-winning counsellor, based in Stroud.
Hi, I’m Lucy.
I’m a professionally registered counsellor (MBACP) based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with years of experience supporting people through life’s challenges.
I offer a safe, confidential, and non-judgemental space where we can explore your experiences, relationships, and circumstances together – always at your pace.
My approach is guided by three themes:
Understand · Overcome · Grow
- Understand: Exploring your story, feelings, thoughts, and experiences so you can truly see yourself more clearly.
- Overcome: Working through the challenges that may be holding you back.
- Grow: Living in a way that feels more meaningful, authentic, and fulfilling.
Interested in learning more about how we might work together?
Understand - Overcome - Grow
Understand.
Our work together will support you in gaining understanding and insight about yourself.
I believe that there is nobody else quite like you.
Only you were born into your body, at that moment in time, to those people, in that place. Only you have walked through your unique web of relationships and experiences. You are a one-of-a-kind prism, casting your own light on what it means to be human.
So who are you?
In counselling we have the space to explore this question. To understand your feelings, thoughts and behaviours, and to make sense of your relationships, experiences, and challenges.
Together, we’ll uncover the meaning these hold for you today.
Interested in understanding more about yourself?
Overcome.
Once we have self-understanding and awareness, we can choose to do something different.
Counselling can’t change the past, but it can help you make peace with it, so it no longer shapes your present or future in ways you don’t want.
Whatever you’re facing, we’ll work together to process and understand it, so it no longer holds the same power over you.
I work with people navigating challenges such as:
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Feeling stuck or lost
• Stress, burnout, or overwhelm
• Panic attacks
• Grief, bereavement, or loss
• Relationships or family struggles
• Low self-confidence or body image concerns
• Big life changes or moments of crisis
Looking to overcome something?
I believe that every person has a remarkable capacity to shift the lens through which they see themselves and the world – allowing their unique light to shine in new and different ways.
As your counsellor, my role is to nurture that growth, helping you live with a deeper sense of meaning, connection, and fulfilment.
Counselling won’t magically change everything overnight – but it can change you. And with that change, you can shape a life that feels true to who you are.
Ready to start working toward personal growth?
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