Lucy Bello, BACP

Lucy Bello is a counsellor with five years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief, low self-esteem and motivation problems. She approaches sessions with the view that each person knows their own story and brings strengths to build on.

Lucy focuses on practical ways to address everyday thoughts and habits that keep people stuck. She helps clients notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small changes that feel manageable. Conversations are paced to suit the person and aimed at giving tools to cope with life changes and emotional challenges.

Her practice includes work around intimacy, parenting strain, career stress and compassion fatigue. She also supports clients dealing with trauma and abuse, anger, ADHD-related concerns, and a range of family or origin issues. Lucy pays attention to how attachment patterns and past relationships shape present choices.

Therapeutic influences in her work include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based and Client-Centred approaches. These approaches are used to help people build values-led goals, shift repetitive thoughts, and increase emotional awareness. Sessions emphasise simple, usable strategies rather than complex theory.

Lucy is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She offers sessions in English and works from the United Kingdom. To start, people are invited to use the site matching process to connect and schedule according to availability.

How therapy approaches translate to online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps in that direction, even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It suits issues like anxiety, low motivation and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small experiments or practical exercises, which can help with stress, anxiety and repetitive thinking patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional reactions, which is useful for intimacy, relationship concerns and family of origin issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and day-to-day challenges and will collaborate on which methods to try first. This is an ongoing conversation, so approaches can be adjusted as therapy progresses.

If you are thinking about online sessions, confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit conversations into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins around work or caring commitments. It can also make some practical exercises easier to use between meetings. Registered or accredited professionals can guide you on how to adapt approaches like ACT and CBT to online formats and help plan steps that work with your routine.