Lidia Alvarez Veas
Compassionate help for stress and relationship strain
About Lidia
Lidia Alvarez Veas helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain or big life changes. She welcomes people who struggle with low self-esteem, past trauma, or a sense of emptiness. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and she works with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally.
Lidia aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm, respectful space to talk. She keeps sessions paced to each person's needs and focuses on practical ways to make day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Background and approach
Conversations cover immediate coping and the patterns that keep problems repeating. Her background is in Communication Sciences and she trained as a counsellor, gaining registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP. Her three years of practice combine that training with personal experience of therapy, which informs how she supports others.
In sessions she looks at how past experiences affect present behaviour. That often means spotting unhelpful habits and trying new ways of relating to others and to oneself. Work can include building emotional regulation skills, setting boundaries, and improving communication.
Lidia describes her approach as flexible and tailored. She draws on a range of evidence-based techniques so sessions suit the person in front of her. The aim is to help people feel more confident, assertive and able to lead a life that feels more authentic and satisfying.
What Lidia works with
Sessions & fees
How Lidia adapts evidence-based approaches for online work
Her practice uses a blend of evidence-based techniques tailored to each person. One common strand focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour to reduce anxiety and low mood. This involves practical exercises and short homework tasks aimed at helping people notice and shift thoughts that fuel distress.Another strand centres on exploring how past experiences shape current feelings and relationships. That work helps people make sense of recurring problems, process difficult memories and develop kinder ways of relating to themselves. Both approaches can be delivered effectively via conversation and written exercises online.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and the therapist will collaborate with the client to decide what fits best. Together they review goals, try different techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made or needs change.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper exploration. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for ongoing support between sessions, brief reflections or when written thinking feels more comfortable. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, childcare and travel.
| 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
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Spanish
