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Lucy Rooney, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Relationship issuesTrauma and abuseCareer difficultiesDepressionCoping with life changes
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Lucy Rooney draws on practical, evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage relationship strain, trauma, career worries and depression. She offers straightforward support and aims to make early sessions feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure. Lucy uses plain language and a calm approach so conversations stay focused and useful.
Lucy has three years of professional experience and holds an NCPS credential. She tailors sessions to each person's needs and works at a steady pace suited to their goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is most pressing, whether that is coping with life change, improving intimacy, or dealing with addiction and sleeping problems. Her wider interests include attachment and self-esteem, communication and commitment issues, and challenges tied to ageing or cancer. She also supports people facing family problems, divorce and separation, domestic violence, dissociation, and guilt or shame.
Practical skills and small steps are often part of the work. Lucy adapts formats to fit people’s lives, offering video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging. She explains options and helps choose a format that matches daily routines and energy levels.
The emphasis is on clarity, respect and steady progress. Beginning therapy is framed as a collaborative process. Lucy helps people set realistic goals, track progress, and adjust plans when life changes.
Her style aims to reduce overwhelm and make problem solving feel achievable.
How evidence-based approaches work in online therapy
Lucy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is structured, goal-focused work that breaks problems into small steps and builds new coping skills for issues like depression, anxiety or struggling with relationships. Another approach involves trauma-informed methods that help people process difficult experiences at a pace they can manage, reducing overwhelm and improving day-to-day functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals and preferences and then try methods that suit those aims. This is a collaborative process and plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life, and give flexible ways to keep progress moving forward.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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