Lucy Vega

I am currently not offering any more office based therapy sessions until next summer. I am offering online sessions, local home visits at my discretion, and Walk and Talk therapy outside at local venues. 

Life can be so hard, and sometimes the ups and downs we experience are overwhelming, and we don't know how to manage what we are going through. I cannot take away or change anybody's difficult life circumstances, but we can work together to try and find a way to increase your own capacity to cope when life gets tough. I offer a range of different counselling approaches.

These include but are not limited to, traditional Person-Centred counselling, where you will be offered a safe space to bring whatever you would like to in a non-judgmental environment and really feel heard and seen; Walk and Talk therapy, where we go outside and allow nature to play a part in the therapeutic relationship, with the knowledge that being in nature helps to restore our physical and mental wellbeing; Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) where we can work together to build your tolerance and capacity to hold difficult emotional feelings and thoughts; Creative counselling, where you can use paint, pencils, stones, sand, figures, cards, music, movement, in any way that we feel together would be beneficial for you to draw upon creativity as a tool for mindfulness and exploration.

We will always go at your own pace, whatever type of counselling you receive, and some people like to try a bit of everything and see what suits them best. Please get in touch if you have any questions at all and we can arrange an initial session should you wish to proceed. 

I am a fully qualified counsellor, and work as a school and college counsellor for 11-19 year olds, as well as working privately with adults and children aged 11+.

I work with a wide range of issues, but I work with the person rather than labelling issues,  as we are all complex beings. If there are times where somebody needs specific, specialist support, I will happily signpost them to somebody who specialises in the area they are needing help with.

I am currently studying a Masters in Psychotherapy with a special focus on Creative Counselling and Wild Therapy. I do not believe anybody needs 'fixing' or that I am the expert. I believe that life is really difficult, and people need some support to live in it well and to increase their capacity to hold difficult thoughts and feelings. I also believe that so many of us have lost connection to ourselves, to others and to the world around us, and I would love to help people find more meaning and value to their lives.  

Some people find phone calls challenging, so please feel free to contact me via email and then we can message to arrange the initial session if this feels more comfortable to you.

If you decide to go ahead we will complete a counselling agreement and I can answer any questions you may have about me or the way I work. Our first session will be an information gathering session where I can gain an understanding of you and your needs, and we can work out the best way to go forwards from there.