Lucy Nicholas, BACP

Lucy Nicholas is a BACP-registered counsellor with eight years of professional experience. She holds a first-class honours degree in counselling and a degree in psychology, and her BACP registration indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her approach is integrative, tailoring the counselling process to each person by drawing on a range of therapeutic models including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and solution-focused techniques.

Lucy has supported a wide variety of people through roles in counselling charities, schools, and private practice. She has six years of experience delivering therapy by video and telephone and holds a post-qualification certificate in online counselling, which complements her in-person work and allows her to adapt to different ways of meeting clients.

Clients often report that her warm, calm, and sensitive manner helps them feel heard and understood, which contributes to a strong professional therapeutic relationship. While she brings training, clinical skills, and practical techniques to sessions, she does not position herself as the expert on a person’s life - the client is the expert on their own story. Her role is to work alongside people, offering interventions and support to help them navigate change, manage distress, and build on their strengths.

Her practice is inclusive and welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, with particular experience across areas such as stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting, career challenges, depression, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Lucy aims to create a safe, nonjudgmental space where each person’s individual needs guide the therapeutic work.