Lynfa Wharam
Practical, open-minded counsellor for life challenges
About Lynfa
Lynfa Wharam offers support for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy difficulties, low self-esteem, grief, addiction and trauma. She also helps with eating and parenting concerns, career challenges, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. Lynfa uses practical, down-to-earth language and aims to make conversations straightforward and easy to follow.
Lynfa trained in psychotherapeutic counselling and hypnotherapy and holds the NCPS credential. She draws on eight years of helping people in various roles and on a long career in law, where she worked for international firms in London and Essex.
Background and approach
That professional background shaped her practical problem-solving approach. Her way of working is integrative. She combines Client-Centred listening with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness, Jungian ideas and hypnotherapy when these suit the person in front of her.
Sessions focus on what someone wants to change and on small, manageable steps to get there. Lynfa is candid about sexual and relationship issues and is experienced in addressing topics such as commitment, trust and communication, as well as abuse and affairs. She includes sex-related difficulties as part of her practice and approaches them without judgement.
She volunteered to provide mental health support for healthcare workers at the start of the pandemic. Lynfa accepts English-speaking international clients and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. To begin, a short questionnaire and scheduling follow a Start Therapy selection.
What Lynfa works with
How Lynfa works
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Sessions & fees
Common approaches used in online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The counsellor offers non-judgemental support and helps people find their own solutions, which suits concerns like low self-esteem and relationship difficulties.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. It helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change behaviours.
Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused attention to access different ways of thinking about problems. It can help with habits, stress reduction and some anxiety-related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels comfortable, then suggest which methods to try first. Adjustments are made as therapy progresses so the work fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging makes it easier to fit sessions around work or family life. Video calls are close to face-to-face meetings, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility and allow people to choose what works best for their routine and 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
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
