Lucy Middleton, NCPS

Lucy Middleton is a registered integrative therapist based in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience. She works from an integrative framework, selecting methods to suit each individual's needs - for example using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and challenge unhelpful thoughts and teach practical self-help strategies, while at other times offering a more open, exploratory approach that supports reflection and meaning-making.

Her counselling work has included time at a women's charity serving an area of low socioeconomic status, where many women faced limited access to financial, educational, social, and health resources and carried the impact of difficult childhoods and ongoing trauma. That experience involved supporting people through complex barriers so they could process past and present traumas and move toward greater empowerment.

Lucy currently works with the NHS Talking Therapies and maintains a private practice, contracting out to the platform as part of that work. Over the course of her career she has supported people with grief, depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, sexual abuse, parenting and relationship difficulties, and issues related to substance use, among other concerns.

She holds the NCPS credential, a professional counselling qualification, and practises in a person-centred way that prioritises the person's own agenda and perspective. Lucy believes that individuals are the experts on their own lives and that their existing strengths can be mobilised to address what feels challenging. She offers supportive, nonjudgmental collaboration to help clients take steps toward a more fulfilling life.