Lucy Nicolaysen
Gently challenging patterns, building self-understanding
About Lucy
Lucy Nicolaysen draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to help people talk through painful and confusing experiences. She keeps sessions simple and down to earth, listening closely and responding to what feels most urgent for the person in front of her. Lucy holds a BACP accreditation and has six years' experience in counselling and therapy across a range of issues.
Many people come because relationships feel stuck or because family life is causing stress.
Background and approach
Others need help after trauma, with anxiety, panic or low mood. She also supports people facing grief, addiction, problems with intimacy, body image worries, or changes linked to midlife and parenthood. In practice Lucy uses attachment ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
She combines that with client-centred work that focuses on what each person needs in the moment. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when helpful to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical changes. Sessions aim to create clear space to tell your story and make sense of it.
Lucy encourages manageable steps so people can test new ways of coping between meetings. Where trauma is central she offers trauma-informed approaches to carefully process painful memories. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
She pays attention to communication problems, feelings of abandonment, and the strain carers often face. Lucy accepts international clients and works in English, offering conversations by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
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Sessions & fees
Approach-led online therapy that fits your life
Lucy draws on attachment-based work to explore how early relationships affect current feelings and patterns. This approach helps when trust, intimacy and recurring relationship conflicts are central concerns. She also uses client-centred counselling which puts the person’s experience at the heart of each session, offering steady listening and reflection to help people make sense of what they are facing.Finding the right way of working is part of therapy. Lucy will discuss different approaches with clients and together decide what feels most helpful for the goals at hand. That collaborative process means techniques can be adapted as needs change, for example bringing in cognitive behavioural ideas to test new thinking or behavioural experiments between sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and reading non-verbal cues, while phone sessions can be quicker check-ins and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, flexible exchanges and can fit into busy days. These options give practical flexibility so therapy can work around work, family or travel commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
