Lucy Clyde Psychotherapy
A confidential space to explore the thoughts, feelings and challenges in your life
Welcome, and thank you for visiting my website. My name is Lucy and I am a therapist providing both short- and long-term therapy in person and online in Kentish Town, London, NW5 2RD.
Therapy in a safe, comfortable and private setting
Life brings emotional challenges to all of us. But sometimes your emotions or experiences can begin to feel unbearable.
Feelings of anxiety, sadness, burnout, numbness or confusion, can stay for longer than you expect or come back again and again.
You might find yourself stuck in unhealthy patterns in situations or relationships, resorting to self-destructive behaviour, struggling with a major life change, grieving a loss, or simply feeling unlike yourself. If this sounds familiar, I understand how overwhelming it can feel; but there is a way through difficult times.
Therapy offers a calm, steady space to explore what is happening for you now, and to understand the deeper threads that have shaped your emotional world. With over twenty years of experience, I offer support that is exploratory, thoughtful, grounded and attuned.
These experiences often make more sense when we look at the bigger picture, your early relationships, the ways you think about yourself, and the environment you grew up in. Our earliest attachments shape how we connect, how we see ourselves, and how we cope when life becomes difficult. These patterns often resurface during times of transition or uncertainty.
If you are wondering whether therapy might help, we can arrange an initial consultation to begin to understand what is going on for you right now.
What issues can psychotherapy help with?
I have extensive experience of working with individuals who are living with a wide range of difficulties including:
- Relationships and sexuality
- Depression and anxiety
- Stress
- Living with autism or and ADHD
- Loss and bereavement
- Family difficulties
- Childhood and adult trauma
- Attachment
- Burnout
- Changes in life stage
- Abuse
My location
My North London practice is in the Borough of Camden, and situated at a fairly equal distance between Kentish Town and Tufnell Park tube stations. It is within easy reach of Central London, Kings Cross, Muswell Hill, Hampstead, Finchley, and is on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line. It a 7-10 minute walk to either Tufnell Park or Kentish Town, and also accessible by bus. There is paid parking nearby.
Fees
Please contact me for details about price.
My fee reflects:
- more than twenty years of clinical experience
- extensive postgraduate training
- specialism in attachment, trauma and neurodiversity
- a biopsychosocial understanding of emotional life
- a stable and consistent therapeutic relationship
- ongoing supervision and professional development
- careful clinical thinking outside the session
People who come to work with me are often looking for depth, and space to understand not only what they are feeling, but why. My fee supports the time, ongoing training and attention required for this kind of work.
Availability
To ensure that counselling or psychotherapy has the best chance of being helpful to you, it is essential that the framework within which the work takes place is set out before we start.
I am available on weekdays only, during standard working hours.
Sessions are 50 minutes, once a week, at a regular time agreed between us. If you should arrive late, the session will still finish at the end of the arranged 50 minutes. Once we start working together, your appointment will take place on the same time and day each week. I will always try and keep to that arrangement however it may be that we have to change your allocated appointment at some point during our work together. I will also try and be as flexible as possible should you need to occasionally move an appointment, or switch between online and in person meetings.
Payment is usually by electronic transfer. I will email you an invoice at the end of every month with my bank details. I ask that invoices are settled within a week of having been received. If your personal circumstances change, then we can discuss payment options. If an invoice isn't settled within six weeks then we may have to suspend sessions until the outstanding bill is paid in full.
I review my rates twice a year. It may be necessary to slightly increase your fee during the course of our work together to keep up with overheads.
If you are unable to attend a session please let me know at least 24 hours before. If it is possible to re-schedule the session for a time that is convenient for both of us, I will do my best to do so. If not, the fee for the missed session is payable. If, for some reason, I have to take an unscheduled break, you will not be charged.
I take approximately seven weeks holiday a year and will give you notice of my breaks at least one month in advance, you will not be charged for the times that I am away. Should you take a holiday outside of these times and it is possible to re-schedule the session/s for a time that is convenient for both of us, I am happy to do so. If not, the fee for your missed session/s is payable.
Ending a course of therapy abruptly can be harmful. Because of this, I ask for at least two weeks notice if you decide the time is right for you to end. If, for some reason, you decide to end suddenly, you may be charged for the following session.
I abide by the code of ethics of the UKCP and BACP.
The sessions are completely confidential, all notes are kept by hand.
However, If I believe someone is at risk of harming the self or others I reserve the right to break confidentiality in order to prevent harm. I would only do this in extreme circumstances and would try to discuss it first before taking any action.
From time to time I will discuss my work with a clinical supervisor, this is standard practice for psychotherapists at all levels of experience and helps me to work as well as I can with you (my supervision meetings are bound by the same code of ethics and confidentiality as I am).
During our first meeting, I will make a note of your contact details and I will hold them for the duration of our work together. For the first few sessions I will take handwritten notes, which help me to retain key information about your background and your reasons for seeking therapy at this time. Notes will not have your name on them and are stored securely and separately from your contact details.
Get in touch
If you would like to arrange an initial consultation or find out more about supervision, you are very welcome to get in touch.
We can meet in person in Kentish Town or online. I usually respond within a few days.
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