Lindsay Westwood, BACP

Lindsay Westwood is a counsellor registered with the BACP and has six years' clinical experience. She holds a Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and draws on a background in psychology and creative practice. Lindsay lists a wide range of concerns she helps people with, including stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and parenting challenges.

She trained in the Person Centred Relational model and practises largely from a client-centred approach. Lindsay says she listens without judging and works with each person's own understanding to help bring hidden patterns into view. Sessions typically involve talking things through, setting small goals and learning practical coping strategies.

Lindsay has accumulated over 2,000 hours of counselling work and has worked closely with young people and their wider networks in previous roles. During the pandemic she focused on grief and loss, offering psychoeducation alongside emotional support to help people process complicated bereavement experiences.

Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, the effects of adverse childhood experiences, substance misuse in families and online sexual risk. She also notes experience with issues such as eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, ADHD and bipolar difficulties.

Alongside one-to-one work Lindsay runs inner child workshops and mindfulness practice groups that bring simple breath-based exercises and playful practices into routine life. She keeps developing professionally and adapts her practice to the needs that clients bring.

How Lindsay uses client-centred work online