Lucy Middleton, NCPS

Lucy Middleton is a registered integrative therapist based in the United Kingdom with six years of professional experience and the NCPS credential, a professional registration that reflects recognised training and practice in counselling and psychotherapy. She blends several therapeutic methods to match the needs of each person she works with, using cognitive behavioural techniques when structured strategies and practical tools are helpful, and offering a more open, reflective space when clients need to explore and make sense of past experiences.

Her practice has included work at a women’s charity serving an area with limited socioeconomic resources, where many women faced barriers to education, health and social support and arrived with complex histories of childhood adversity and ongoing trauma. That role involved supporting clients to process past and present harms, to build resilience and to move toward greater empowerment and agency.

Lucy currently divides her time between NHS Talking Therapies and private practice, where she also contracts to provide online services. Across these settings she has supported people through grief, depression, anxiety, childhood traumas, sexual abuse, parenting and relationship difficulties, and issues related to substance use in themselves or a loved one. As a client-centered practitioner she places the client’s agenda at the centre of the work, listens without judgement and treats each person as the expert on their own life. She aims to collaborate with clients to identify strengths and practical steps toward a fuller, more satisfying life.