Lynne Mollison, BACP, NCPS

Lynne Mollison brings six years of clinical experience and a mixed healthcare background to her counselling practice. She trained and worked in nursing within neuroscience and intensive therapy care, and later supported mental health work in the NHS through roles in the pharmaceutical industry. Lynne uses that combined experience when meeting people who are anxious, grieving, stressed or finding life changes hard.

Her style is straightforward and calm. She offers a space to talk through painful or confusing experiences. Sessions aim to help people understand themselves better and identify practical steps that feel manageable.

Lynne works with adults and younger people. She has provided school-based counselling across whole school settings and has supported staff and students in those roles. That background means she is used to thinking about how early experiences link to present-day struggles.

Therapeutic tools draw on client-centred ways of working, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and solution-focused thinking. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time. Those approaches are blended to suit each person rather than following a single method.

People come to Lynne with many concerns, including trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting stresses, low self-esteem, sleep problems, anger, career worries and compassion fatigue. She also supports those coping with depression and anxiety.

Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat and text messaging. The usual process is to match on needs, then plan sessions that fit the person’s life and goals.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and responding to what the person says. The counsellor offers warmth and acceptance, helping people find their own answers and build self-understanding. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going and teaches practical techniques for changing unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is something the counsellor will do together with each person. Lynne will talk through goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. That collaborative process guides whether sessions emphasise listening, practical skills, mindfulness exercises or exploring longer-standing patterns.

Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video works well when you want face-to-face interaction, phone can be a good option if bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat allows shorter check-ins or flexible timing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or school commitments and to continue work between sessions with written reflections or brief messages.