Lauren Percival, BACP

Lauren Percival offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by life changes. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties, and helps those coping with grief, addiction-related worries and self-esteem struggles. Lauren is named in the first paragraph to make this clear and approachable.

Lauren has three years of clinical experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That means she follows the association's ethical framework. She practises as an integrative psychotherapist, drawing on more than one way of working to match what each person needs.

Her methods include person-centred work, Gestalt ideas, transactional analysis and brief solution-focused techniques. In practical terms that looks like listening closely, helping a person notice patterns, and trying small changes that make day-to-day life easier. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to the individual.

People can expect a respectful, non-judgemental space where the therapist treats them as an equal. Lauren aims to support people to make decisions, manage difficult emotions and find clearer ways forward. She also focuses on issues commonly faced by young adults and those shifting life roles.

Sessions are offered across a range of online formats to fit different needs. Lauren encourages anyone ready to take a step towards change to consider therapy as a practical way to work through current problems and build coping strategies.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Lauren uses integrative methods and often combines person-centred listening with Gestalt and brief solution-focused techniques. Person-centred work focuses on a warm, accepting relationship and helps people feel heard and understood. Gestalt ideas help a person notice patterns in the here-and-now experience to gain clarity about feelings and reactions. Brief solution-focused techniques concentrate on small, actionable steps and clear goals to create change quickly.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk through options, check what feels helpful, and adapt methods to the client’s goals and preferences so the work fits the person rather than the other way round.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls are useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions are good when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can work well for shorter check-ins or keeping a therapeutic thread between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, study and busy family life while maintaining continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.