Kate Lacy, NCPS

Kate Lacy brings 25 years of experience supporting people through hard moments and life transitions. She works with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, bereavement, and relationship and intimacy concerns. Kate emphasises clients' strengths and helps them take practical steps toward change.

Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on what feels most pressing and useful right now. She listens for patterns from the past that still shape daily life and helps people try different ways of thinking and behaving.

Kate uses a mix of approaches to suit each person. She draws on Attachment-Based ideas to look at how close relationships affect wellbeing. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps break unhelpful thinking and build coping skills. Client-Centred work makes space for people to lead the pace and focus of their sessions.

People contact Kate about a wide range of concerns, including anger, grief, sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, career changes, chronic illness, codependency and commitment worries. She also supports those coping with trauma, dissociation, autism-related challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Sessions are offered in English and are held online through video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Kate is registered with NCPS in the United Kingdom. To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to availability.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Kate combines Attachment-Based thinking and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in ways that suit the person. Attachment-Based work looks at how early and close relationships shape expectations and feelings in current relationships. It can help when intimacy, trust or abandonment worries are central. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood, which is useful for stress, phobias and sleep difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kate treats the choice of method as a shared decision. She will talk through options, try things out and adapt the way she works based on the client's needs, goals and preferences so the sessions feel practical and relevant.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for a full conversational session and seeing non-verbal cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflections or weekly coaching-style work. These options give flexibility for making therapy work around busy lives and varying rhythms of daily life.