Lixson Cyriac, BACP

Lixson Cyriac is a qualified psychodynamic counsellor and psychotherapist based in London. He trained at Birkbeck College (University of London) and the University of East London, and has spent several years working with a respected counselling foundation that is accredited by the BACP as a counselling service and assessor.

He is a member of the counselling team at HCC in Marylebone and has experience offering student counselling at Birkbeck College, Westminster University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. His work draws on a psychodynamic approach rooted in the psychoanalytic tradition, placing attention on how past experiences may relate to present difficulties and how many of our coping patterns remain outside conscious awareness.

Alongside psychodynamic practice, he has training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques and holds accreditation with the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT). He tends to work collaboratively with clients to decide which approach is likely to be most effective for the issue at hand and the likely duration of counselling sessions.

Therapy with him is described as a reflective, non-judgmental space to explore past and present experiences, identify fears and mood differences, and consider how earlier ways of coping may no longer serve current needs. Outside his counselling practice, he has extensive experience providing pastoral and spiritual care across settings such as hospitals, care homes, schools and services supporting the homeless, and he is able to include such concerns in therapeutic work when clients wish to do so.

He has worked with services accredited by the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a principal UK professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists - and holds accreditation with APT, the Association for Psychological Therapies, for CBT-related training. He can be contacted by telephone or email for questions or further information.