Lalida Puengklai
Compassionate integrative counsellor for trauma and anxiety
About Lalida
Lalida Puengklai helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties and trauma. She welcomes people facing low self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue and life changes. Lalida also supports concerns linked to family problems, attachment and identity questions, body image and feelings of emptiness.
She works in a calm, listening style that aims to help people understand why they react the way they do. Sessions focus on uncovering patterns from the past and noticing how they affect daily life now.
Background and approach
Lalida encourages clients to recognise strengths they already have and to develop clearer ways of coping. Lalida trained at the University of Derby and holds a Master’s in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy, with membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has worked in the NHS and with charities supporting people affected by sexual and domestic abuse.
Her background includes working with adults across a range of emotional difficulties, including trauma, panic, obsessive thoughts, eating concerns, bereavement and work-related stress. She draws on multiple evidence-based methods to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. Sessions are offered in English and Thai, and Lalida accepts clients from outside the United Kingdom.
People can choose short-term work or longer-term therapy depending on what they need.
What Lalida works with
Sessions & fees
How practical therapy methods work online
Two evidence-based techniques she draws on are mindfulness and compassion-focused approaches. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce rumination and calm anxiety. Compassion-focused work helps people soften harsh self-criticism and learn kinder ways of responding to difficult feelings.She also uses person-centred principles which focus on listening and working at the client’s pace. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, non-judgemental space to make sense of painful experiences and to practice different responses to daily triggers.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the work over time. Clients and the therapist decide together what feels most useful and practical.
Online therapy with Lalida can be done by video call, phone session, live chat or text messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging let people reflect between sessions or fit therapy into busy days. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit different schedules and needs.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Thai
