Lyndsey McCartney

Lyndsey McCartney is a counsellor with eight years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and focuses on bereavement, loss and related life changes. Lyndsey works with people's everyday struggles such as anxiety, depression and parenting stress. She aims to create a warm, respectful space where clients feel heard.

Her background combines several ways of working. Lyndsey uses client-centred listening so people set the pace and priorities. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to help spot unhelpful thinking patterns and to develop practical coping steps. Mindfulness tools are offered to help manage stress and bring attention back from overwhelming thoughts.

Lyndsey also brings psychodynamic thinking into sessions, looking at how past experiences shape present feelings and relationship patterns. Motivational interviewing techniques are used when people want help making changes, such as career shifts or breaking difficult cycles. Together these approaches allow sessions to be tailored to each person's needs.

People come to Lyndsey for a wide range of concerns including grief after a death or other losses, relationship strain, feelings of emptiness, anger, and challenges at work. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and issues around self-esteem and social anxiety. Women's issues are an additional area of focus noted in her work.

Her style is interactive and compassionate. Sessions mix listening, reflection and practical exercises. Lyndsey aims to help people find clearer thinking, steadier emotions and more workable day to day routines.

How counselling approaches shape online work

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship where the person sets the agenda. This approach helps when someone needs a safe space to talk through grief, relationship stress or confusion about life direction.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, addresses patterns of thought and behaviour. In practice this means identifying unhelpful thinking, testing those ideas and trying small, practical exercises to reduce anxiety or low mood.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working. That plan can be adjusted as you go, so sessions remain useful and relevant.

Confirm the exact online session options before you book, as formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life - for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins at a workplace break, or enabling sessions when childcare makes leaving home difficult. It can also let people try different ways of meeting without changing how the therapy itself is delivered.