Lisa Fairclough
Helping people find steady ways forward
About Lisa
Lisa Fairclough brings a decade of counselling experience in the United Kingdom. She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about difficult feelings and take steps towards change. Her approach is straightforward and patient, aimed at helping clients find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Over ten years she has supported people dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, trauma and abuse, and addiction concerns.
Background and approach
Other areas she attends to include parenting pressures, career stress and compassion fatigue. Her work covers a range of focus areas such as attachment and abandonment wounds, codependency, control and commitment issues, and problems linked to separation or infidelity. Lisa also helps people facing loneliness, guilt and shame, and those managing bipolar symptoms or major life changes.
Lisa uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centred Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy alongside Motivational Interviewing and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She adapts these methods to each person’s needs and goals. Conversations are practical and paced to suit what the client can manage.
Sessions are offered in English and carried out online by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session. The therapist aims to support each person with clear steps and steady encouragement.
What Lisa works with
How Lisa works
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Sessions & fees
Therapies that suit online work and real life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and offering a non-judgemental space where clients lead the conversation, which helps when people need to talk through relationships, grief or feelings of emptiness. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build steadier moments during stress or after trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss these methods with each person and choose what fits best together with their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and techniques can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility - video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distances, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the therapeutic focus.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
