Lydia Chapman
Experienced counsellor for trauma and relationships
About Lydia
Lydia Chapman helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed or stuck after trauma. She supports those coping with relationship and family difficulties, addiction, grief, eating and sleeping problems, intimacy worries, and career or life changes. Lydia is named up front so readers know who they would be meeting.
Lydia uses a mix of approaches based on what each person needs. Sessions focus on building a trusting relationship, exploring feelings, and trying practical steps that can change day-to-day life.
Background and approach
She draws on client-centred ways of working to make people feel heard and understood. Her background includes nine years of therapeutic work with adults and young people. Lydia holds BACP accreditation, a diploma in counselling, and a BSc (Hons) in therapeutic counselling and supervision.
She has also trained in holistic therapies and is a mental health first aider. In practice Lydia often combines attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused work. That blend helps with patterns that come from early relationships as well as present-day thoughts and behaviours.
She tailors the mix to each person rather than using a fixed formula. Lydia offers remote sessions for people outside her local area and can provide in-person meetings locally. She aims to make sessions straightforward and useful, with an emphasis on clear communication and steady progress.
What Lydia works with
How Lydia works
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Sessions & fees
How Lydia’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Lydia uses this to help people understand why they feel anxious or pull away in relationships and to build more supported ways of connecting.Client-centred therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The therapist listens without judging and reflects feelings back so people can make sense of what matters to them and decide next steps.
Cognitive behavioural techniques look at unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and test small changes that can make a real difference to mood, sleep and daily routines. This practical element is often used alongside emotion-focused work to balance feeling and action.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lydia will discuss the options and try ways of working that fit the person's goals, needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that feels manageable and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and use visual tools, phone sessions can fit into a shorter break or use less internet bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins or when writing things out is easier than speaking. These formats make it simpler to maintain continuity and to schedule sessions around everyday 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
