Kate Lacy, NCPS

Kate Lacy is a counsellor with 25 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and draws on long experience helping people manage stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, motivation, self-esteem and confidence. She presents a straightforward, supportive approach and aims to empower clients who want change.

Her work starts by listening to each person’s story and recognising their strengths. She treats clients as the expert in their own life and helps them build on what already works. Conversations are practical and focused on small, achievable steps towards clearer goals.

Kate uses several approaches to suit different needs. She blends attachment-based ideas with client-centred listening to help people understand relationship patterns and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy tools are used when clients want to change thoughts and habits that keep them stuck.

She also brings elements of mindfulness to help with stress and a thoughtful, existential tone when people face big life questions. Sessions tend to emphasise real-life application so ideas can be tried between meetings.

People come for a wide range of concerns, including depression, grief, addictions, sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, chronic illness and career shifts. Kate also supports those dealing with abandonment, attachment issues and neurodiversity concerns such as autism and Asperger Syndrome.

Her manner is calm and encouraging, aiming to make therapy feel manageable. Prospective clients are invited to reflect on what they want from therapy and to take the first practical steps towards change.

Therapeutic approaches used in online work

Kate often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to help people understand patterns in relationships and why they respond to closeness or distance in certain ways. This approach can be useful for those dealing with intimacy worries, abandonment fears and communication problems.

She also uses Client-Centred Therapy, which means conversations are led by the client and the counsellor offers empathic listening and reflection. That style helps people feel heard and clarify what matters to them. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is used when clients want practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and habits affecting mood, anxiety or sleep.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and everyday constraints to decide which methods to try. This is a collaborative process and can be adjusted as progress is made.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets clients practise techniques in their usual environment and bring real situations into session for discussion.