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Lisa Powell, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 14 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefDepression
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Lisa Powell is a counsellor with 14 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and grief. Lisa also supports people with relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and parenting struggles, ADHD and career questions.
She holds BACP registration, which means she is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her approach is collaborative and down to earth.
Background and approach
She aims to build a trusting relationship where people can speak openly without feeling judged. Sessions are geared to help people make clearer sense of their thoughts and feelings and to find ways to cope more effectively in daily life. Lisa draws on several therapeutic ways of working to match what each person needs.
That can include talking through patterns that come from attachment, using client-centred conversations to follow what matters most, or practical cognitive behavioural techniques to change troubling thoughts and behaviours. She often focuses on concrete strategies when people need faster relief, and on deeper personal exploration when the goal is long-term change.
Issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism traits, and coping with chronic illness are included in her practice when they are part of someone’s story. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Lisa aims to make the first steps straightforward.
She encourages people to take things at a pace they can manage and to set goals that feel relevant to their life now.
Approaches online and how they help
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps when people notice repeating trust, closeness or separation issues in their relationships and want to understand why they react the way they do.Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and following the concerns a person brings. It allows people to set the pace and helps when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of feelings and decide what matters most.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, offers practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with stressful situations by teaching clear steps people can try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which ways of working to try, and they can adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions allow for flexibility and easy access. Video calls are closest to face-to-face talks and work well for deeper conversations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good choice for a quieter check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit short updates, brief reflections or days when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and life commitments.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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