Lisa McAndrew
Compassionate practical therapy for daily challenges
About Lisa
Lisa McAndrew offers support for common but heavy problems such as stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She also helps people facing addictions, relationship or intimacy difficulties, eating and sleeping struggles, anger and bipolar-related concerns. Lisa aims to make reaching out feel a practical step rather than a leap.
Her approach is calm and down-to-earth, and she speaks English in sessions. Lisa works in a way that puts the person at the centre.
Background and approach
She encourages open conversation and aims to reduce judgment. This helps people feel heard and begin to sort through difficult thoughts and feelings. Her practice draws on client-centred methods, where the client leads the pace, and on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot and change unhelpful thoughts.
She also uses solution-focused techniques to set small goals and hypnotherapy when appropriate to address habits and clarity of mind. With seven years of experience and an NCPS credential, Lisa brings steady practical support rather than jargon.
She has supported people dealing with attachment and adoption issues, codependency, dissociation, drug and alcohol problems, obsessive or phobic patterns, self-harm, and women's issues among other concerns. Sessions are available to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Lisa offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their life.
To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session.
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Sessions & fees
How these approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. The counsellor offers empathy and reflection so people can talk through what matters to them and make sense of their feelings.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small experiments to change how they feel and behave, which can help with anxiety, depression and obsessive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. A therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and how they respond to different methods. They will then try an approach and adapt it over time, checking in about what is helping.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation and body language, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit short check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments and to keep to a steady schedule.
| 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
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
