Lindsay Westwood , BACP

Lindsay Westwood is a therapist with a Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a background in psychology and creative practices. She trained in the Person-Centred Relational Model, an approach that supports gentle exploration of life’s difficulties and helps people connect with their own internal resources. Lindsay is accountable to the BACP Ethical Framework - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy’s professional standard - and brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence to her work.

With six years of practice and more than 2,000 hours of counselling experience, she has worked closely with young people and families and has developed a flexible style that adapts to individual needs. Her experience covers grief, particularly through the pandemic, the effects of adverse childhood experiences, anger, sexual abuse, substance misuse in families, and online sexual risk. She draws on her training and ongoing professional development in trauma models and mindful awareness to support clients facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, addiction, ADHD, bereavement, and wider life transitions.

Lindsay offers group work such as inner child workshops that invite play and self-compassion and mindfulness practice groups that teach simple breath-based techniques. She aims to build a genuine therapeutic connection that encourages clients to gain clarity, set achievable goals, and access their own answers. Empathy, integrity, and honesty guide her practice as she supports people taking steps toward a more fulfilling life.

Person-Centred Care and Online Therapeutic Support

Lindsay primarily practises client-centred therapy, an approach that prioritises the client’s experience and fosters a warm, accepting environment where individuals can explore feelings, make sense of their experiences, and build self-trust. This way of working is helpful for stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and life transitions because it focuses on the client’s own goals rather than imposing external solutions.

She also draws on the Person-Centred Relational Model, which emphasises the therapeutic relationship as the vehicle for change and attends to how past attachments and relational patterns influence current difficulties. This approach can be particularly useful for people working with attachment-related issues, abandonment, or complex emotional reactions following trauma.

Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work itself. Lindsay collaborates with each person to identify what feels most helpful based on their needs, preferences, and goals, adjusting methods as the process unfolds.

Online therapy with Lindsay is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility and accessibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, maintain continuity during life changes, and choose the mode of communication that best supports the client’s comfort and engagement with the therapeutic process.