Matt Lightfoot
Person-centred counsellor with existential insight
About Matt
Matt Lightfoot offers a person-centred counselling style that puts the client in charge of the conversation. He meets people with warmth and a non-judgemental approach, helping them talk through difficult feelings and decisions. Matt makes space for practical thinking as well as emotional processing.
He is listed with the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS). Matt draws on the person-centred approach to build a respectful, collaborative relationship. Sessions are generally led by the client, with the counsellor reflecting back what is said and helping identify changes the client wants to make.
Background and approach
He also brings elements of existential thinking when clients are exploring meaning, purpose or life direction. He has four years of professional experience and has completed extensive personal therapy as part of his training. That background shapes a down-to-earth style that focuses on everyday language and real-life concerns.
Matt aims to help people notice their own strengths and find practical steps forward. Areas he works with include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, addictions, grief and trauma, self-esteem and ADHD. He also supports people with family of origin issues, gender dysphoria, body image, hoarding and sexual diversity topics such as BDSM and kink.
Matt offers sessions in English to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, and uses a cancellable subscription model for sessions.
What Matt works with
How Matt works
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Sessions & fees
How Matt's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on giving the client space to lead the conversation while the counsellor listens and reflects. This approach helps people clarify their thoughts and feelings, cope with anxiety and depression, and build self-esteem by recognising their own resources.Existential Therapy looks at meaning, choice and values. It helps when people feel stuck, question life direction, or struggle with guilt, emptiness or major life changes by encouraging honest reflection about what matters most.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Matt will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt sessions so the approach matches the client's needs. That collaborative process helps people feel involved in decisions about their care.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and a conversational flow, phone sessions can be simpler when less bandwidth or no camera is preferred, chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or gradual written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life or when travel is difficult, while keeping continuity of care 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
