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Kate Lacy, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 25 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesIntimacy-related issuesSelf esteemDepression
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Kate Lacy is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom with 25 years of experience. She uses a warm, straightforward style to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression and loss. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, parenting strain and career transitions.
She believes each person knows their story best and brings their own strengths to the work. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear thinking rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Kate aims to help clients build confidence, manage strong emotions and make steady progress toward their goals. Kate draws on several counselling approaches to match the needs of each person. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect present patterns.
Cognitive behavioural techniques help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Mindfulness and existential ideas are used to deepen self-awareness and meaning. People can expect a calm, collaborative space where their concerns are listened to and explored.
Kate offers tools for coping with grief, trauma, sleep and eating problems, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses specific issues such as ADHD-related struggles, body image, and communication problems. Sessions are offered online in a variety of formats so people can choose what fits their life.
The initial steps are simple: start the process, complete a brief matching questionnaire, and book a session based on availability. Kate works to make the work realistic and manageable for busy lives.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions. Online sessions using this approach help people notice repeating patterns in relationships and try new ways of relating. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives practical exercises to change unhelpful habits. This can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating problems. Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the centre of the work and emphasises listening and empathy to help people clarify their own goals and values.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and will happen collaboratively. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and suggest ways of working that fit. It is common to combine elements from different approaches to create a plan that feels right for the individual.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see non-verbal cues and work in real time, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter tone is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing reflections and fits around busy days. These options let people arrange therapy around school, work and caregiving commitments rather than travel time.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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