About Lydia
Lydia Jenkins is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. She supports those coping with life changes, grief, trauma, intimacy concerns and issues linked to ADHD. Lydia also offers help around relationship struggles, compassion fatigue and difficulties with sleep or anger.
Her style is warm and person-centred. Sessions begin with listening to what matters most to the client. Lydia combines gentle talking with practical exercises so people learn ways to manage strong emotions and overwhelming thoughts.
Background and approach
She draws on somatic ideas to bring attention to the body and how feelings show up physically. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy methods are used to help people notice thoughts without being ruled by them. Attachment-based ideas also guide work around patterns from past relationships and how they affect current life.
Lydia holds a BACP accreditation, and she has five years of professional counselling experience in the United Kingdom. She offers sessions in English and can work with international clients by online formats. Sessions can include video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging depending on what suits the person.
Lydia asks people to pace the work and helps them set goals together, whether they want short-term support or longer-term exploration. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointment times are arranged according to availability. This helps ensure the initial steps fit the client’s needs and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Somatic-informed work focuses on how emotions and stress show up in the body. This approach helps people notice physical sensations linked to anxiety, trauma or chronic stress and learn simple ways to regulate those sensations. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts without getting caught by them and to focus on actions that match their values. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses and helps people build new patterns for feeling safer in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try ways of working together. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted as trust and understanding grow.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options allow people to join from different locations and to pick a format that fits their day. The variety of formats supports ongoing work whether someone needs regular scheduled sessions or shorter check-ins between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English