Lucia Fleet, BACP

Lucia Fleet is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and issues around intimacy. She also supports people dealing with addiction, grief, sleep and eating problems, parenting stresses, anger, career pressures, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD and life changes. Lucia works with clients on practical patterns that get in the way and on building self-compassion. Lucia is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has three years of experience working across different settings, including involvement in a gambling addiction service within the NHS. Her work often combines listening closely with exploring life patterns and practical changes. Her style adapts to the person in front of her. Some people want a more analytical pace to identify repeating patterns. Others prefer to move slowly and focus on emotions and healing. Many clients find a mixture of both approaches helpful. Lucia describes therapy as a collaborative process. She does not position herself as having all the answers and treats clients as experts in their own lives. Together she and the client look at what is and isn’t working, and try out new ways of responding to old problems. In initial sessions she aims to learn about the client and for the client to decide whether the working relationship feels right. She works during UK daytime hours and often sees international clients whose local evenings may coincide with her daytime schedule.

How client-centred work translates to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, understanding and reflecting what the person is feeling. It helps people who are struggling with self-esteem, relationship worries, grief and emotional pain by giving space to be heard and to make choices at their own pace. Lucia also draws on psychodynamic ideas when appropriate, which look at recurring life patterns and where they might have come from. This can help people who want to understand why they repeat certain behaviours or get stuck in similar relationship problems. Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and try different ways of working until something fits. That conversation is part of the therapy, and adjustments are made as needs change. Many people find online sessions easier to fit into busy lives, especially when daytime appointments are needed. Online work can reduce travel time and make it simpler to keep regular appointments. If you need to check which session types are offered by this therapist, confirm current options before booking so you know how appointments will be arranged.