Lucy Nicolaysen, BACP

Lucy Nicolaysen uses an attachment-based, client-centred approach to help people untangle painful feelings and rebuild a steadier sense of self. She places simple, honest conversation at the heart of therapy. Lucy aims to create a space where someone can talk about what is worrying them and start to feel less stuck.

Lucy has six years of experience supporting people who are facing relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, anxiety and panic, low self-esteem and depression. She also works with concerns such as grief, addiction, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and compassion fatigue. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, caregiving stress, chronic illness and disability, and midlife or life-purpose questions.

Sessions use approaches that respond to the person in front of her. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the core of the work. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy addresses unhelpful thinking and coping habits that keep distress going.

Lucy practices from the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs.

Lucy helps people talk through what is overwhelming them, notice patterns, and try different ways of coping. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then a session can be scheduled according to availability.

How attachment and CBT translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy helps people notice how early relationships shape current emotional patterns and reactions. It is useful for working on intimacy-related issues, abandonment worries and attachment difficulties by exploring those patterns in conversation.

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience and pace at the centre of the work. It emphasises being heard and understood, and helps when someone needs a steady, supportive space to talk through distress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) adds practical ways to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that maintain anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with the person to decide which methods match their needs, goals and preferences. That might mean focusing on attachment patterns at first, then bringing in CBT tools for coping skills.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or when a quieter voice check-in is needed, live chat allows shorter real-time exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family or other commitments.