Charlotte Lucas
Gentle, practical support for life changes
About Charlotte
Charlotte Lucas is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of clinical experience. She holds NCPS and works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. Charlotte also supports those dealing with relationship strain, self-esteem difficulties, grief, trauma and parenting challenges.
Her background includes roles across support and charity services where she offered practical help and therapeutic conversations. She uses a blended, integrative style and draws on several therapeutic approaches to suit each person.
Background and approach
Sessions are shaped around what a person needs in the moment rather than a fixed formula. Charlotte favours a client-centred way of working that treats people as the experts in their own lives. She offers steady listening, empathy and respect while helping clients notice patterns and consider new options.
Practical tasks and short exercises may be introduced between sessions when useful. She also uses elements of cognitive behavioural work to spot unhelpful thoughts and Mindfulness to help with grounding and present-moment focus. Motivational Interviewing techniques support people who want to make changes but feel stuck or unsure where to begin.
Charlotte aims to make sessions straightforward and down to earth. She helps people break big problems into smaller steps. The pace and focus are agreed together so the work fits daily life and current goals.
What Charlotte works with
How Charlotte works
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Sessions & fees
How Charlotte's approaches work online
Charlotte draws on client-centred therapy to create a respectful and listening space where the person's priorities lead the work. This approach focuses on empathy and collaboration and helps people feel heard while they identify what matters most.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT offers practical ways to test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioural experiments that can reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Charlotte will work together with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and day-to-day life. That collaborative planning means the work can change as needs shift.
Online formats help make that collaboration easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls recreate a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep the work going alongside other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
