Kate Lacy
Supportive counsellor blending practical tools and listening
About Kate
Kate Lacy is a counsellor with 25 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds the NCPS credential and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. Kate works with issues like intimacy, self‑esteem, grief, eating and sleeping problems, and career-related stress.
She sees therapy as a collaborative process and aims to support people as they take steps towards change. Kate believes clients know their own stories and brings a respectful, curious stance to sessions.
Background and approach
She encourages people to notice strengths they already have and to build on them. Sessions are practical and conversational, with attention to feelings, patterns, and everyday choices. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening, cognitive work to shift thoughts and behaviours, existential reflections about meaning, and mindfulness practices to manage stress.
These different perspectives are used to suit each person’s needs and goals. Kate pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns and to the small habits that affect mood and motivation. People come for many reasons including coping with life changes, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, or chronic health challenges.
She also offers support around abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image, and communication problems. Therapy can include short-term tools or a longer process depending on what feels most helpful. Practical arrangements include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and scheduling follows the platform process.
What Kate works with
How Kate works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Kate commonly uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques in online work. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships influence current connection patterns and helps people notice how those patterns affect their feelings and choices. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical strategies to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to the person’s needs, goals and preferences. That might mean trying short practical exercises first, then adding mindfulness or deeper reflection if that fits better.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text‑based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and non‑verbal cues, phone can fit a short break during a busy day, and live chat or messaging suits brief check‑ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or health constraints while keeping the focus on useful, accessible support.
| 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
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
