Dr. Lucy Flitton
Practical support for anxiety and life transitions
BACP, NCPS United Kingdom
- Experience
- 17 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Lucy
Dr Lucy Flitton offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxious thoughts, low mood or repeating relationship patterns. She speaks plainly with clients who want more clarity, steadiness and practical ways to cope.
Background and approach
Lucy writes in a warm, direct way and aims to help people take the first step toward change. With 17 years of experience, she draws on a mix of psychological ideas to match each person's needs.
Her approach centres on listening, helping people make sense of patterns, and teaching skills they can use day to day. Sessions can include talking through difficult memories, developing new habits, and practising ways to manage strong emotions.
Lucy works with issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief and problems with sleep and self-esteem. She also supports people coping with parenting challenges, career strain, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and life transitions.
Additional areas of focus include ADHD, body image, chronic illness, and communication difficulties. Her methods combine well-known psychological approaches with attention to how feelings show up in the body and how language shapes experience.
This means sessions often mix practical exercises, reflective conversation and brief experiential work to build resilience and reduce reactivity. Lucy is registered with BACP and NCPS and practices from the United Kingdom.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. She aims to help people feel steadier, set clearer boundaries and reconnect with a sense of purpose.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small, practical steps so people can act in ways that matter to them even when emotions feel loud. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses short exercises to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how past relationships shape current responses and helps people build new ways of relating to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with the client and decide together which methods suit the person's needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative decision is reviewed as therapy progresses to make sure the approach stays useful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits such as fitting sessions around work or family life, using a phone when bandwidth is low, or choosing text-based messaging for brief check-ins between calls. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be easier when not on camera, and messaging provides ongoing contact and quick tools between meetings. Many registered or accredited professionals use these formats to make therapy more flexible and accessible for busy lives.
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Experience
17+ years
Registered with
BACP, NCPS
Languages
English