Lindsay Westwood, BACP

Lindsay Westwood is a counsellor with a Master’s degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has six years of practice and more than 2,000 hours of counselling experience, and she works within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) framework. Lindsay draws on a background in psychology and creative work to offer a calm and respectful space for people to talk about hard things.

She uses a Person Centred Relational approach, often called Client-Centred Therapy, which centres the person's own experience and aims to help them find their own answers. Lindsay also brings in learning from trauma models and mindful awareness when it fits the issue at hand. Her work has included grief support through the pandemic and practice around adverse childhood experiences, anger, sexual abuse, substance misuse in families, and online sexual risk.

Lindsay describes a gentle, flexible style. She listens, helps people set realistic goals, and offers practical coping ideas when they are wanted. She also runs inner child workshops and mindfulness practice groups that focus on breathing and simple exercises to calm the body and mind.

She often helps people facing major life changes, stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, and issues linked to identity and relationships. Midlife crisis is one of the areas listed among her focus points, along with parenting and career concerns.

Her approach is collaborative: she works with each person to tailor sessions to their needs, drawing on varied methods rather than following a single technique. People can expect a supportive, non-judgemental space to explore past and present difficulties and make clearer decisions about next steps.

How her client-centred approach adapts to online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and helping the person uncover their own answers. In practice this means the counsellor offers a warm, non-judgemental presence and follows the client's pace, which can help with grief, stress, relationship worries and identity concerns.

Lindsay also draws on trauma-informed ideas and mindful awareness in her work. Trauma-informed thinking helps identify how past experiences affect present reactions, while mindfulness teaches simple breath and body techniques to calm overwhelm and bring clearer attention to the moment.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lindsay will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences, and adapt methods over time. Together they decide whether to emphasise person-centred listening, trauma-informed tools or mindfulness practice based on what helps most.

If you want to choose online sessions, check the current session formats before booking as the biography does not list them explicitly. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, or let someone join from different locations. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and paced listening to work well at a distance, and Lindsay will guide how to make therapy practical for everyday schedules.