Sarah Lacey
Practical counselling for stress and grief
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About Sarah
Sarah Lacey is a counsellor with more than two decades of experience in the UK. She holds BACP accreditation and uses practical approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, low mood and grief. She focuses on short-term work and offers support around self-esteem, work-related stress and compassion fatigue.
Sarah believes people know their own stories and brings that belief into sessions. She helps people notice their strengths and uses straightforward strategies to reach goals.
Background and approach
Sessions include talking through current problems and learning tools to manage anxiety and low mood. Her background includes long experience working with adults across common mental health concerns. That practical history shapes a direct, down-to-earth approach in the counselling room.
Sarah aims to make sessions clear and focused so people can take steps between meetings. She offers short-term therapy options and runs daytime appointments on Mondays and Tuesdays. If a client arrives late, she will wait up to 10 minutes before suggesting a reschedule to ensure useful time for the work.
Sarah uses techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to tailor the work. Her goal is to combine listening with hands-on strategies people can use right away.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 22
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 21222
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Sarah's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Sarah works with
Everything Sarah lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Coaching
Approaches Sarah lists
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How Sarah works online
Client-Centred Therapy centres on listening and understanding. The aim is to offer a steady space where people can talk things through and feel heard while they work out what they want to change.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy identifies unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and teaches practical techniques to change them. It often helps with anxiety, work-related stress and depressive symptoms by offering tools people can use between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. That may mean blending techniques and checking progress as you go.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, for example by removing travel time and allowing appointments during a lunch break or a shorter check-in when time is tight. The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so please confirm current options before booking. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, homework and conversational work so therapy fits everyday life without requiring particular equipment.
Questions and answers
What sort of issues can be brought to sessions?
Sarah works with stress, anxiety, self-esteem difficulties, depression, compassion fatigue, relationship concerns and grief. Coaching around life changes is also offered.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
The approach is practical and collaborative, combining listening with concrete strategies. Techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy are used as appropriate.
How much experience does she have?
She has 22 years of professional experience working in the UK with common mental health concerns. That background informs a straightforward counselling style.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is accredited with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and practises in the United Kingdom.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or from abroad?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
Which session formats are available?
The biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options with the service before booking.
How are costs handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
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