About me
I am Lucy (she/her) and I am an Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist and Counsellor based in Bristol.
I have worked for over two decades in the Public Service, working in both international development and education. I undertook a Masters in Post Conflict Recovery and have lived internationally.
Core to my career has been the importance of human connection and it is this, plus my own life experience that drew me to psychotherapy as a route to healing and transformation.
People I work with
I believe that each individual is gifted – gifted with their own unique potential – and that the quest of our lives is to re-connect and stay in connection with our own truth, our own unique gift, our own vital spark with which we were born.
Through living we often become disconnected from this spark. Surviving in the face of what life throws at us, shapes who we are and how we show up. I believe in the transformative role therapy can play in coming back to ourselves, in deepening self-understanding, increasing awareness and creating meaningful change in our lives as we spiral back towards whole-ness.
I have experience in working with those who have experienced trauma and in working with abuse. I have also worked particularly in the area of finding voice and agency, reclaiming one’s story and in identity and motherhood.
Qualifications and memberships
I am a fully qualified and accredited Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist & Counsellor, a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP) which is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority. I work in accordance with their ethical guidelines and codes of practice.
I completed my Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapy (level 7) at the CCPE (Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy Education).
Training to be a therapist should be rigorous and I am proud to have undergone a 5 year training within which I attended 160 hours of personal therapy, undertook 550 hours of one-to-one client work. The additional lectures, supervision, residentials, process work and supervision enabled a rich, diverse and deep learning.
I have a Masters in Post Conflict Recovery and through my experience and work in this area I have experience of living and working in conflict and with transcultural issues.
I am continually engaged in deepening my knowledge to enrich my practice and I attend regular professional supervision.
I have worked at Womenkind Bristol and Bristol MIND.
I hold professional liability insurance with Balens Insurance and an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service).
I am also registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which ensures that I comply with GDPR and data protection laws, safeguarding the confidentiality and privacy of all client information.