Lisa Powell, BACP

Lisa Powell is a BACP counsellor with 14 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also supports those navigating relationship and intimacy problems, parenting strains, career stress and identity concerns including LGBT issues.

Lisa offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through painful thoughts and feelings. She aims to build a trusting relationship that helps people feel heard and understood. That relationship is used as the base for clearer thinking and better self-regard.

Her work draws on several approaches to suit different needs, including attachment-based ideas to look at connection patterns and cognitive behavioural techniques to try new ways of thinking and acting. She also uses client-centred principles to follow the person’s pace and priorities. Sessions are tailored so practical steps and reflection go together.

People come for help with trauma and abuse, eating concerns, bipolar mood challenges, coping with life changes and ADHD-related struggles, among other issues. Lisa can also address more specific themes such as abandonment, attachment worries, blended family matters and chronic illness or caregiving stress.

Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She works with each person to set goals, try manageable changes and review progress. New clients follow a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions to suit their circumstances.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Lisa uses attachment-based work to look at how past relationships shape current patterns of closeness and trust, which can help when intimacy or abandonment fears cause difficulty. She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. Her client-centred way of working keeps the person’s own priorities at the heart of sessions and makes space for their pace and values.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy itself. Lisa will discuss options and try different methods collaboratively, so the direction of work reflects each person’s needs, goals and personal preferences. That collaborative planning happens across early sessions and is reviewed as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full face-to-face feel, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can suit those who prefer writing or need flexible times. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caring duties and travel, while allowing regular contact and practical follow-up between meetings.