About Lucy
Lucy Gardner is a counsellor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief and low mood. She also supports those facing relationship strain, addiction concerns, sleep or eating problems, and issues around self-esteem and motivation. Lucy holds the NCPS credential and works from the United Kingdom.
She aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs, with conversations and exercises chosen to fit practical goals.
Background and approach
Lucy uses mind-body awareness alongside talking therapies to help people notice and change patterns that cause pain. Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment ideas to help people build clearer values and more supported emotional responses. She also uses client-centred and existential perspectives to keep sessions focused on what matters to the individual.
These methods are blended into a somatic-informed practice that pays attention to bodily experience as well as thoughts and feelings. Lucy has four years of professional experience supporting people through life changes such as bereavement, career shifts and transitions tied to health or caregiving. She also works with trauma-related difficulties and long-standing problems like obsessive thoughts or panic attacks.
Practical tools may include simple grounding exercises, values clarification, paced breathing and reflective discussion. Sessions can be delivered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How somatic and values-based approaches work online
Lucy combines somatic-informed techniques with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help people understand thoughts, feelings and bodily signals. Somatic work involves gentle attention to posture, breathing and bodily sensations to spot how stress shows up in the body and to build easier ways of responding. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, practical steps that align with what matters to the person. Attachment-based methods look at patterns in close relationships and how those patterns shape feelings and behaviour.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person’s needs, goals and comfort level. Choices are reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan can change if something else seems more helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to make access easier for different lifestyles. These options allow flexibility around work, caregiving and travel, and make it possible to continue therapy through life transitions. Practical exercises, breathing work and values-based tasks translate well to remote sessions and can be adapted for shorter live chat or longer video formats.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English