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Dr. Lara James, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseSelf esteemCoping with life changes
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Dr. Lara James helps people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship strain. She also supports those dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, addiction, eating or sleeping difficulties, and challenges around intimacy.
Dr. James offers practical support for career worries, parenting strain, and life changes that feel overwhelming. She works in a straightforward, person-centred way.
That means conversations focus on the person in front of her and what matters to them.
Background and approach
She draws on a mix of approaches so sessions can include talking, practical exercises and creative activities when useful. Dr. James holds an NCPS credential from the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.
NCPS recognises counsellors who meet professional standards. She has three years of experience working with a range of presenting concerns and neurodivergent clients. Her practice is flexible and aimed at helping people build skills to cope and make changes.
Sessions can cover problem-solving, exploring how past experiences affect current feelings, and building new ways of relating to others. Work is tailored to each person rather than a fixed programme. People choose to work with her when they want a calm, steady counsellor who uses different tools to find what helps.
She offers sessions online and by phone or messaging to fit practical needs and life commitments.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Person-centred counselling focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard, clarify goals, and explore choices in a gentle, non-directive way.Cognitive behavioural techniques look at patterns of thought and behaviour and use clear exercises to test and change them. These methods suit anxiety, low mood, sleep and many everyday stresses because they offer practical steps and homework tasks.
Psychodynamic ideas help people trace how past experiences shape current feelings and relationship patterns. Used alongside other methods, this can open up new ways of understanding long-standing struggles.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and try different ways of working to see what fits. That collaborative process shapes whether sessions focus more on talking, skills practice or creative activities.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging work well for quick updates or when writing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments while keeping continuity of care.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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