Lydia JenkinsBACP

Lydia Jenkins BACP is a counsellor who supports people through pregnancy and childbirth-related worries alongside a wide range of emotional challenges. She helps with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression. Lydia also works with grief, trauma, relationship concerns, intimacy questions and issues such as sleeping difficulties and anger. She aims to help people take a first step toward feeling steadier and more able to cope.

Lydia describes her practice as integrative. She draws from person-centred work and weaves in acceptance and commitment approaches, compassion-focused ideas and strength-based tools. That means sessions can involve both listening and practical exercises. Lydia helps people build coping strategies and tests what feels useful in day-to-day life.

Her style is warm and non-judgemental. She says clients remain in charge of the pace and direction of their sessions. Lydia keeps wellbeing central and invites people to bring whatever feels most pressing, whether that is trauma from the past or current overwhelm.

Lydia has five years of clinical experience and is a member of the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She provides work in English and accepts international clients, supporting people across different locations.

If someone is new to counselling, Lydia encourages a gentle first step. She will listen, outline possible ways to work together, and agree goals and practical steps at a comfortable pace.

How Lydia's approaches work in online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting swept away by them and to choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current reactions and connections. This can be helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment worries and relationship difficulties.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lydia aims to be collaborative and will discuss which methods feel most helpful based on someone’s goals and preferences. She will tailor the balance of listening and exercises so the process suits the person rather than forcing a single method.

Confirm the session formats before booking because the biography does not list them. Online therapy can make fitting sessions into a busy life easier, such as shorter check-ins during a work break or sessions that avoid travel time. It can also allow people to use mindfulness exercises and acceptance practices in their everyday settings, so homework and skills transfer naturally into routine life. Registered or accredited professionals can guide how best to use remote sessions to meet personal goals.