Lynsey Cuthbert, BACP

Lynsey Cuthbert offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by life. She helps with stress, anxiety, low mood and relationship problems. Short-term worries and longer-term issues are both welcomed. Lynsey is clear and down-to-earth in her approach.

Lynsey holds BACP accreditation, which means she follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy standards. She has worked in private practice for 12 years. Her experience includes grief, depression, panic, addictions and compassion fatigue among other concerns.

Sessions focus on what matters to the person sitting in the room. Conversations are person-centred, aiming to understand the client’s experience first. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ideas are used where thinking patterns and behaviours cause distress.

Psychodynamic ideas are available too, helping people look at repeated patterns and earlier life events that influence current feelings. Lynsey adapts her support to fit each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. She also helps with practical family and parenting strains, blended family issues and difficulties around intimacy and commitment.

She works with people across sexual orientations and gender-related concerns, including gender dysphoria and LGBT matters. Sessions can cover career stress, sleeping problems, postpartum concerns and recovery from domestic violence or infidelity. Lynsey aims to be respectful, non-judgemental and focused on realistic next steps.

How Lynsey’s approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathy and helps people find their own solutions; this is useful for building confidence and handling life changes.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It breaks problems into manageable steps and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety, panic attacks and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will check what feels most useful and adjust methods based on the client's needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and may change as therapy progresses.

Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls recreate a face-to-face feel, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text-based messaging suits regular brief updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work and family schedules and to choose the format that helps someone engage most comfortably.