Lydia Chapman, BACP

Lydia Chapman is a counsellor with nine years of practical experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and addiction. She also helps with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, sleep and eating difficulties, and life changes. Lydia holds BACP in counselling, and she works with adults and young people in one-to-one and group settings.

Her style is warm and person-centred. Lydia focuses on building a trusting relationship first. She aims to create a respectful, non-judgemental space where people can talk through what feels hard and begin to find clearer ways forward.

In sessions she blends approaches to suit each person. That might mean using attachment ideas to understand relationship patterns, cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle anxious thinking, or emotionally focused work to look at how feelings drive behaviour. She keeps explanations simple and practical so people can use what they learn between appointments.

Lydia’s background includes work in charities and a diploma in counselling alongside holistic therapy training. She has experience supporting people affected by domestic and sexual abuse, self-harm and suicidal ideation, personality and eating disorders, bereavement, addiction, and long-term health challenges.

She offers therapy both in person in her local area and remotely for people outside her region. To begin she asks people to describe their situation and goals so sessions are shaped around their needs and pace.

How Lydia’s approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy helps people see patterns in their close relationships and how early care shapes adult responses. Online work with attachment ideas can help uncover why trust and closeness feel difficult and suggest new ways of relating.

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the relationship in the room, offering presence, empathy and unconditional positive regard. Online sessions give space for steady, accepting listening so people can speak freely and build trust at their own pace.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions this often means setting small tasks to try between appointments and reviewing results together.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lydia will discuss goals and preferences and collaborate to choose techniques that fit each person. That might mean combining attachment, client-centred listening and CBT tasks depending on what feels most useful.

Her biography notes she offers remote therapy and local in-person sessions, so check the current session options before booking. Online appointments can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and permit people outside the local area to access support.