Lindsay Westwood , BACP

Lindsay Westwood is a counsellor with a Masters degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a background in psychology, creative practices and tattoos. She trained in the Person-Centred Relational Model of therapy - a client-centered approach that prioritises the therapeutic relationship and supports individuals to explore the challenges life presents. Lindsay is accountable to the BACP Ethical Framework; the BACP is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and provides professional standards for practice.

With six years of clinical practice and more than 2,000 hours of counselling experience, Lindsay has worked closely with young people and families and developed a flexible style that responds to individual needs. Although initially trained as a person-centred practitioner, her work has become more eclectic over time, drawing on a range of learning to tailor interventions to the presenting issue. Her specialist experience includes grief and bereavement during the pandemic, the effects of adverse childhood experiences, anger, sexual abuse, stress and anxiety, the impact of substance misuse in families, and online sexual risk.

Lindsay offers inner child workshops that invite play and reconnection alongside mindfulness practice groups that teach breath-based exercises to support body and mind. She places empathy, integrity, honesty and safety at the forefront of her work and believes that people carry their own capacity for growth and self-understanding. Through a genuine therapeutic connection she supports clients to bring unconscious patterns into awareness, set achievable goals and learn practical coping strategies.

Warm and nonjudgmental, Lindsay aims to create a relaxed counselling relationship where clients can explore past, present and future concerns, gain clarity in decision making, rebuild trust in themselves and feel empowered to move forward. She accepts clients in the United Kingdom and works with a broad range of presenting concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and family issues, ADHD, addictions and mood difficulties.