Lucy Castro
Gentle practical counselling for everyday stress
About Lucy
Lucy Castro is a counsellor with 11 years of experience offering a calm, non-judgemental space. She welcomes adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about the next step. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the individual.
Lucy aims to help people feel heard and to make small, practical changes that matter to them. Her practice blends a person-centred way of working with short-term, solution-focused ideas. That means she listens first, then helps clients set clear goals and try manageable steps between sessions.
Background and approach
She checks in regularly about progress and will change direction if something isn’t helping. Lucy has supported people with anxiety, low self-esteem, grief and emotional burnout. She also helps explore relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes such as loss or transition.
Additional areas she addresses include body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and feelings of isolation. Her background includes work with national and local charities, bringing experience from different community settings into one-to-one work. Sessions are offered in the United Kingdom and to international clients in English.
Lucy provides a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. People who choose Lucy often want straightforward, practical support without pressure. She focuses on listening, helping you name what matters, and supporting small steps towards clearer choices and relief.
What Lucy works with
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions that fit real life
Lucy uses a person-centred way of working that puts the client's experience at the heart of each session. This approach means listening carefully, reflecting what matters to you, and allowing your priorities to shape the work. It helps people who need space to make sense of feelings and choices.She also draws on short-term, solution-focused techniques which help clarify goals and identify practical steps. These ideas are useful when someone wants to try manageable changes between sessions or focus on a specific problem for a limited period.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their needs, goals and preferences. That may mean combining person-centred listening with targeted short-term strategies and adjusting as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video calls are close to an in-person meeting and work well for deeper conversations. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Chat or messaging can suit short check-ins and people who prefer writing to speaking. These choices make it easier to fit therapy around daily life and to keep continuity across locations.
| 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
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
