Lisa Powell
Experienced counsellor for life transitions
About Lisa
Lisa Powell is a counsellor with 14 years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and specialises in common life stresses such as anxiety, depression and grief. Lisa also helps people facing relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, and the impacts of trauma and abuse.
Her approach is down-to-earth and person-focused. Sessions aim to be calm and non-judgemental so thoughts and feelings can be talked through openly.
Background and approach
She works with each person to build trust and understanding before moving on to practical steps. Lisa draws on several counselling methods to suit different needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small changes. Client-centred work makes room for a person’s own pace and priorities. People come to her for a wide range of concerns beyond mood and stress, including ADHD, eating issues, chronic illness and bereavement.
She also offers support around adoption and foster care matters, attachment difficulties and the emotional effects of caregiving. Her style mixes listening with practical options. That might mean short, goal-focused steps at times or slower, exploratory sessions at others.
The intention is to help people feel clearer about themselves and better able to cope with day-to-day life.
What Lisa works with
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Sessions & fees
How Lisa's approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns of relating. Online sessions can be used to notice those patterns and try different ways of connecting and setting boundaries. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's own goals and pace, offering a listening space where the counsellor reflects back what matters most. This approach suits people who want to be heard and to explore choices rather than follow a set plan.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behaviour changes. In online sessions CBT can include simple exercises between meetings, short practice tasks and practical plans that fit daily life. These techniques often help with anxiety, mood and coping during change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will discuss options and agree a plan based on the person's needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process means the method can shift over time as progress is made or priorities change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works for short check-ins or to fit therapy around a busy day. These options make therapy more accessible for people with different schedules and practical needs.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English