Kate Lacy, NCPS

Kate Lacy is a counsellor working in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and brings 25 years of overall experience to her practice. Kate focuses on helping people who are under stress, feeling anxious, or facing life changes. She listens without judgement and treats each person as the expert of their own life. Conversations are practical and aimed at helping clients notice their strengths. Kate supports people who want clearer thinking, more confidence, or improved relationships. Her background includes long-term practice with mood and behaviour concerns such as depression, addictions and ADHD. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. That breadth of experience means she can draw on different ways of working to suit each person. Kate uses approaches that include attachment-based work, client-centred methods, cognitive behavioural techniques, existential thinking and mindfulness. She adapts these to practical tasks and small steps that people can use between sessions. Many clients come to discuss career strain, burnout and compassion fatigue, or to navigate divorce, separation and blended family issues. She also supports people with chronic health concerns, body image and communication problems. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people set clear goals and try changes at a manageable pace. To begin, people follow the service sign-up and matching steps to book a first session.

Approaches that translate to online counselling

Attachment-based work focuses on the ways early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand trust, closeness and repeated relationship struggles and can be useful for intimacy concerns and attachment issues.

Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the centre of the conversation. The counsellor listens, reflects and supports clients to discover their own solutions, which suits people wanting to build confidence and clarity.

Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, depression, sleep and coping with life changes.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try first. This collaborative pace helps adjust the plan as goals and challenges change over time.

Confirm the session formats available before booking so you know how the meetings will be arranged. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also allows continuity of care if circumstances change, while keeping the focus on practical steps people can use between sessions.