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Sydney Lewis, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 10 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyAddictionsGriefDepressionADHD
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Sydney Lewis helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and grief. He supports those dealing with depression, ADHD, bipolar conditions and trauma. He also assists with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, sleep problems and career stress.
He takes a plain-spoken, person-focused approach. Sessions are built around what matters to the client. He helps people work out what can change and what needs acceptance.
The aim is to find practical steps that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Sydney draws on a range of approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas. He blends these methods to suit each person rather than using a single fixed style. This helps him address emotional pain, unhelpful patterns and relationship difficulties.
With ten years of clinical experience working in the United Kingdom, he combines practical counselling with broader wellbeing work. His background also includes work related to addiction and neurodiversity concerns. He holds NCPS as a listed credential and several professional memberships noted in his record.
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. People can expect straightforward language, short-term coping tools and longer-term skills for change. He aims to make therapy useful and accessible for day-to-day life.
Clients who choose to work with him move at a pace that feels right. He offers a calm, curious presence and focuses on clear outcomes rather than labels.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Sydney commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while moving toward what matters to them. ACT emphasises values-based action and practical steps that can be tried between sessions.He also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking and test different behaviours. CBT offers clear exercises and short tools for managing anxiety, low mood and sleep difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods and adjust them as things progress, so the plan matches real life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual exercises, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or times when video isn’t possible, live chat works for focused check-ins and messaging supports brief updates or day-to-day coaching. These options give flexibility for appointments, shorter check-ins and practical follow-up between sessions.
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Areas of focus
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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