Lydia Freeman

• Stress and anxiety
• Trauma and abuse
• Parenting support

About Lydia

Lydia Freeman works with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and other life changes using a client-centred approach that focuses on the person’s experience and choices. She is a BACP member and has five years of experience working with people on issues such as depression, bipolar, ADHD, parenting and LGBT concerns.

Lydia uses a humanistic outlook in sessions. She focuses on what has happened to someone rather than what is wrong with them. Conversations are aimed at helping people express feelings, gain insight and find practical ways to cope with difficult situations.

She pays attention to attachment and developmental patterns and how these shape relationships today. This can help when someone wants to understand long-standing relational responses or the effects of past hurt and abuse.

Lydia also works with people facing faith-related issues, including purity culture and religious trauma. She supports exploration of changing beliefs, the emotions that follow, and rebuilding a sense of personal autonomy when faith has been a central part of identity.

Practical concerns such as career strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness, blended family challenges and separation are included in her work. Sessions can look at coping strategies, managing feelings and rebuilding self-worth after loss or major change.

Therapy with Lydia centres on a respectful relationship and steady, honest conversation. She keeps her professional skills up to date and follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework.

How Lydia uses client-centred practice in online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in the room, prioritising their perspective and choices. It involves open conversation, reflective listening and supporting people to make their own sense of things; this approach can help with anxiety, depression, relationship patterns and life changes.

Lydia also draws on attachment-oriented thinking, which looks at how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and behaviour. Working this way can be useful for people who want to understand repeated relational difficulties or the effects of past hurt.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lydia will discuss goals and preferences at the start and adapt how sessions proceed based on what helps the individual most. This is a collaborative process rather than a fixed prescription.

Practical benefits of online counselling include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Online work can make it easier to schedule regular sessions around employment, caregiving or healthcare demands. Confirm the current session formats before booking so you know which options are available for appointments.

Topics Lydia lists

• Stress and anxiety
• LGBT
• Grief
• Coping with life changes
• Family conflicts
• Trauma and abuse
• Parenting issues
• Self-esteem
• Career difficulties
• Bipolar disorder
• Depression
• ADHD
• Attachment issues
• Blended family issues
• Cancer
• Caregiver issues and stress
• Chronic pain, illness, and disability
• Divorce and separation
• Guilt and shame
• Isolation and loneliness
• Life purpose
• Self-love
• Sexuality
• Women's issues

Ways of working

• Client-Centred Therapy

Questions about Lydia

Does she work with anxiety?

Yes. Anxiety and stress are listed areas she helps people with using client-centred methods.

What kind of counselling does she offer?

She practises Client-Centred Therapy, a humanistic approach that focuses on the person’s own experience and choices in the room.

How much experience does she have?

She has five years of experience working with people on issues including depression, bipolar and trauma.

Is she registered with a professional body in the UK?

Yes. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, recorded as BACP.

Can I have sessions in another language?

Sessions are offered in English only.

Can people outside the UK work with her?

International clients are not currently accepted; she works with people in the United Kingdom.

How are sessions arranged and paid for?

Cost varies with location, and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Select the Talk to a counsellor online button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.