Dr. Lucy Flitton, BACP, NCPS
17 years in practice
Dr Lucy Flitton helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, repeated relationship patterns, or big life changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 54436 · expires March 2026
- NCPS
- NCS23-02776 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 17
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Lucy
Dr Lucy Flitton helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood, repeated relationship patterns, or big life changes. She introduces straightforward ways to bring more calm and clarity. Her tone is practical and compassionate for people who are worried and looking for help.
She draws on 17 years of clinical experience in the United Kingdom and works from a client-centred perspective. Sessions focus on what is happening now, how past experiences shape the present, and what small, concrete changes might help day to day.
Background and approach
Conversations cover emotions, behaviour, relationships and practical coping strategies. Lucy uses a range of approaches to suit each person’s needs. She commonly uses Systemic ideas to look at how relationships and wider systems influence difficulties.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to help people notice patterns and try new ways of relating to thoughts and feelings. Her work often looks at how emotions show up in the body and how language shapes experience. She brings together developmental and health psychology perspectives to make sense of problems in life context.
Practical tools include grounding, behavioural experiments and work on boundaries and communication. People come to her for stress, anxiety, trauma-related problems, addictions, sleep or eating difficulties, parenting and family questions, and issues around identity and relationships. The focus is on helping people feel steadier, make clearer choices and regain a sense of agency.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lucy lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lucy names
- Systemic Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Systemic ideas look at how relationships and social roles shape difficulties, helping people spot patterns that keep problems cycling and identify small changes that shift those patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on making space for difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match your values; it often uses short exercises to practise new ways of responding. Attachment-Based work explores how early relationship templates influence current bonds and trust, and it helps people try different ways of connecting that feel safer and more effective.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss what matters to the client, try different strategies, and agree on a plan that fits their goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps decide which approaches to use and how to adapt them for each person.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflections, or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does this therapist help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting and family questions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, bipolar and ADHD among other concerns.
What is the therapist's general approach in sessions?
Work is client-centred and practical, focusing on how current patterns form and what small changes help. Systemic, ACT and attachment-informed ideas are used to explore relationships, thoughts and feelings.
How much clinical experience does the therapist have?
The therapist has 17 years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom across a range of presenting problems.
What credentials and professional registrations are held?
She is listed with BACP and NCPS as supplied in the profile details.
Which languages are supported and can international clients be seen?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available online?
Sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How are fees and costs handled?
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