- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Lucy
Dr Lucy Flitton works with parents and individuals who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or repeating relationship patterns. She speaks plainly and helps people name what feels difficult. Reaching out is framed as a practical first step toward more clarity and calm.
Lucy has 17 years of professional experience and practises from a client-centred stance. She draws on psychological ideas about development and health to make sense of problems.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters to the person and on skills that can be used between meetings. Her background includes study and practice across trauma-related approaches and somatic ideas that look at how emotions show up in the body. She also uses Attachment-based thinking to understand close relationships and CBT-style tools to manage distressing thoughts and behaviours.
Work with Lucy often includes examining how language and inner parts shape experience, and thinking about life challenges both personally and in a wider social context. This helps parents and individuals handle grief, sleep problems, addictive behaviours, ADHD-related issues and parenting stress with clearer strategies.
Sessions aim to build practical skills - emotion regulation, boundary-setting and paced exposure to difficult feelings - as well as helping people reconnect with purpose and agency. Many clients go on to feel steadier, more confident and kinder towards themselves after a period of work.
Lucy accepts international clients and runs sessions in English by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. She combines clinical ideas with straightforward coaching to help people manage the real tasks of daily family life.
What Lucy works with
Everything Lucy lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lucy helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lucy lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Lucy commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without fighting them, and then take small steps that align with their values; it can help with anxiety, low mood and parenting stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, which can be useful for intimacy or family-related strains.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, daily pressures and preferences, and then choose methods together. That collaborative decision means techniques can be adapted as work progresses and new needs emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video calls are useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions suit people who need less bandwidth or a simple check-in. Live chat and text are helpful for short updates, exercises between sessions or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to schedule around school runs, work breaks or caregiving duties.
Questions people ask about Lucy
What kinds of concerns does this counsellor address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and addictions, plus parenting-related stress and relationship or intimacy issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
The style is client-centred and practical, mixing talk-based reflection with tools you can use between sessions.
How much professional experience does she have?
She has 17 years of professional experience working in psychological and therapeutic roles.
What credentials and country does she work from?
She is listed with BACP and NCPS and practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported and can she work internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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