Lily Llewellyn, BACP

Lily Llewellyn is a UK-based counsellor with five years of professional experience who works with adults and young people to address a wide range of emotional and relational challenges. She draws on person-centred principles to create a calm, respectful space where clients can explore stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and family issues, LGBT-related concerns, intimacy difficulties, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stresses, and other life changes. Her practice also supports people facing trauma, addiction, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and career or self-esteem struggles.

Trained in person-centred approaches, Lily holds a BACP accreditation - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and has completed postgraduate qualifications including a PGDip and an ongoing MSc in Person-Centred Counselling at Aberdeen University. She also has Level 1 to 4 counselling skills accreditation from COSCA and an MA in Anthropology, background that informs her curiosity about how people develop and relate. Since 2022 she has worked in specialist roles such as a Children and Young People specialism at Aberdeen, volunteer counsellor positions with ChildLine and The Bounds in Aberdeen, a school counsellor role, and a private practice in which she offers ongoing therapeutic support.

Before training as a counsellor Lily taught English and spent time travelling in Europe, experiences that exposed her to different cultures and ways of living and shaped her listening skills. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process - helping clients gain understanding and more agency over their emotions and choices - and aims to foster a sense of safety in which people can reconnect with what matters to them.

How Lily's Approaches Work in Online Therapy

Lily uses person-centred work to place the client's experience at the heart of therapy - this approach focuses on listening deeply, offering empathy, and helping people find their own solutions, which can be helpful for anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship issues, and life transitions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people map and shift patterns in close relationships by naming emotions and restructuring interactional cycles, making it useful for couples work and attachment concerns. Existential therapy explores meaning, choice, and responsibility, helping clients navigate feelings of emptiness, life changes, and questions about purpose.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative part of Lily's work. She will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and together the client and therapist will try methods that fit the individual's needs, adapting as therapy progresses.

Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it possible to access consistent support from wherever the client is located. These options offer flexibility for scheduling around work, family, or other commitments and allow registered professionals to maintain continuity of care even when in-person meetings are not possible.