Lindsay Westwood, BACP

Lindsay Westwood is a counsellor with a BACP accreditation and six years of professional experience. She holds a Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and draws on a background in psychology and creative practices. Lindsay works with stress, anxiety, grief and a broad range of life challenges including anger and relationship concerns.

Lindsay uses a person-centred relational approach, also described as Client-Centred Therapy, which focuses on the client's own experience and resources. She makes space for people to talk through hard things and brings practical psychoeducation when helpful. Sessions often look at how past experiences shape current reactions and how to recognise repeating patterns.

Her experience includes more than 2,000 hours of counselling and work with young people and their families before moving to online practice. During the pandemic she supported people through grief and loss, and she has worked with the effects of adverse childhood experiences, sexual abuse, substance misuse in families, and anger-related difficulties.

She continues professional development in trauma models, mindful awareness, and configurations of self. Lindsay runs inner child workshops and mindfulness groups that bring breath-based practice and play into therapeutic work. These group options are offered alongside one-to-one counselling.

In sessions she listens, helps set realistic goals, and offers coping strategies people can use between meetings. Her approach is collaborative and centred on helping clients make clearer decisions and understand their own patterns.

How Client-Centred work adapts to online therapy