Charlotte Lucas , NCPS

Charlotte Lucas is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship concerns. She also supports clients dealing with grief, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD and life changes, including issues linked to ageing and geriatric matters.

Before moving into one-to-one therapeutic work, she spent time in the support and charity sectors in a range of roles. That background shaped her practical approach to emotional and practical problems. Charlotte uses a mix of methods and adapts them to what each person brings to sessions.

Her core style is client-centred therapy, which means she aims to listen without judging and to treat people as individuals. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help with anxious thoughts and low mood. Mindfulness techniques feature in sessions when people want tools to calm racing thinking.

Charlotte also uses motivational interviewing to support changes such as improving routines or tackling avoidance. Her psychodynamic thinking helps when people want to make sense of longstanding patterns and relationships. She does not present any single method as the only option and will tailor the combination to the client.

Sessions tend to focus on clear, practical steps alongside open listening. People often come away with a better grasp of what triggers distress and with small strategies to try between meetings. To begin, clients choose the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as an individual. In practice this means the counsellor offers empathy, acceptance and space for the person to lead the conversation, which can be useful for feelings of low mood and self-esteem.

Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with simple experiments. It often involves practical exercises to change patterns that keep anxiety or depression going.

Mindfulness therapy introduces short attention and breathing exercises to reduce stress and ground thinking. These techniques can be used between sessions as quick ways to steady agitation or sleeplessness.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy. The counsellor will work collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person’s goals, preferences and day-to-day routine. That might mean mixing listening-based work with CBT tasks and mindfulness practice over several meetings.

Session logistics should be checked before booking because the biography does not list formats. Confirm which session types are offered and how they run. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, require less travel, or allow shorter check-ins when days are tight, while still enabling the same mix of talking and practical exercises.