Lydia Jenkins
Person-centred counsellor for anxiety and life change
About Lydia
Lydia Jenkins helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low self-esteem or depression. She also supports those coping with life changes, grief, trauma, intimacy concerns, sleep problems and career strain. Lydia works with people facing ADHD, LGBT issues, relationship and family difficulties, anger and compassion fatigue.
Lydia uses a person-centred way of working. That means she listens first and follows the person's pace. She combines this with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused ideas, existential thinking and mindfulness exercises.
Background and approach
Sessions can include reflective listening, practical coping plans and short experiential exercises. Her style is straightforward and warm. Lydia aims to make the room feel calm and non-judgemental.
She helps people notice patterns, choose values-based actions and build small skills that fit everyday life. Lydia has five years of experience as a counsellor and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with adults on both short-term goals and longer-term exploration depending on what the person wants.
People often begin by talking through what matters most to them and then try a few simple tools between sessions. Over time the work shifts to practical ways of coping and staying connected to what matters. Lydia accepts international clients and runs sessions in English.
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How Lydia works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small actions that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression and life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional patterns. It can help people who struggle with abandonment, attachment issues or difficulties trusting others by tracing patterns and practising new ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Lydia will listen to your goals and try methods that suit your needs, adjusting as you go. The work is collaborative, with shared decisions about techniques and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for a full conversation and visual connection, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, and live chat or text-based messaging can be a shorter check-in or a way to reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work when travel or schedules change.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
