Lindsay Westwood
Person-centred counsellor for life transitions
About Lindsay
Lindsay Westwood is a counsellor with a Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and six years of professional experience. She holds BACP registration and has gathered over 2,000 hours of counselling practice. Her background includes psychology, creative work and a long interest in how people heal after difficult events.
She uses a Person-Centred approach, sometimes called Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on understanding each person’s experience. Lindsay believes people have an inner drive to grow and that therapy helps make hidden thoughts clearer.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered with warmth, empathy and straightforward listening. Her practice covers many common concerns. Examples include stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, low self-esteem and work-related issues.
Lindsay also supports people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment, chronic illness and the after-effects of childhood adversity. In recent years she worked a lot with grief during the pandemic and has experience helping people understand the stages of loss and adjust to changed circumstances. She also brings knowledge of how substance misuse can affect family life and of online sexual risk issues.
Lindsay adapts her style to each person rather than following one set method. She offers inner child workshops and mindfulness practice groups in addition to individual sessions. Her aim is practical: help people set achievable goals, develop coping skills and find clearer ways forward.
What Lindsay works with
How Lindsay works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred work online and practical access
Client-Centred Therapy places the person's own experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens without judgement, reflects what is said and helps people find their own answers. This approach is often helpful for grief, stress, anxiety and changes in life direction.Alongside a Person-Centred stance, Lindsay draws on mindful awareness practices in session. Mindfulness exercises can help with overwhelming emotions, improve focus when attention drifts, and offer simple tools to calm the body and mind. She may use short psychoeducation pieces to explain grief or trauma reactions so clients understand what they are experiencing.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lindsay will discuss what feels helpful and tailor her way of working to the person’s needs, goals and preferences. Together the client and counsellor will try different methods and choose what helps most moving forward.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, step-by-step reflection or when sitting down for a longer session is difficult. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy around daily life.
| 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
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
