Jody Lumley
Experienced BACP counsellor for complex concerns
About Jody
Jody Lumley helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and addiction. She supports those dealing with identity and intimacy concerns, anger, low self-esteem, career upheaval, bipolar challenges, ADHD and compassion fatigue. Jody is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with nine years' experience.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions begin with listening to what matters most and making a plan together. She uses familiar methods such as client-centred work, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when these fit the situation.
Background and approach
Jody draws on practical tools to manage symptoms and on talking space to look at deeper patterns. She offers problem-solving steps alongside opportunities to reflect on past experiences that still affect daily life. This mix helps people reduce distress and build coping skills.
She has worked with a wide range of presenting problems, including work-related trauma, childhood trauma, self-harm, grief, domestic violence, PTSD and complex PTSD. Jody aims to make sessions a calm place to name difficult feelings and try new ways of handling them. People can expect a warm, non-judgemental tone and pragmatic focus on change.
Jody will tailor methods to each person and help them set small, achievable goals. The emphasis is on what helps day to day and what moves life forward.
What Jody works with
How Jody works
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Sessions & fees
How Jody’s approaches work online
Jody uses client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy in straightforward ways. Client-centred work means the session focuses on the person's concerns, with the counsellor offering empathetic listening and gentle guidance to help the person find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at thoughts and behaviours that maintain distress and introduces simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns.She also draws on mindfulness practices to help ground people who feel overwhelmed. Mindfulness involves short attention exercises and breathing techniques that can reduce anxiety and improve focus in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they try methods, see what fits, and adjust the plan as needed so the work feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see one another for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can provide brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent work while juggling family, employment or other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
