Lisa Howarth, BACP
Practical, body-aware counselling for life challenges
About Lisa
Lisa Howarth is a counsellor who works with people facing stress, anxiety, low self-worth and relationship concerns. She supports those dealing with grief, trauma, addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, and people managing life changes or compassion fatigue. Lisa also helps with intimacy-related issues and questions around identity and sexuality.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what is happening in the moment and on practical ways to feel steadier.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns such as people-pleasing, self-blame or emotional disconnection, and helps people notice how these show up in everyday life. Lisa uses somatic approaches alongside client-centred methods to bring attention to bodily experience as well as thoughts and feelings. She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness to offer tools for managing anxiety and low mood.
Trauma-focused work is included when past events are affecting present wellbeing. She holds BACP which denotes membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Lisa has seven years of experience working with a wide range of concerns and life stages.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts people from the United Kingdom and internationally. Therapy is available online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How somatic and psychological approaches work online
Lisa blends somatic therapy with client-centred principles and cognitive behavioural techniques to address both body sensations and thought patterns. Somatic therapy helps people notice bodily cues and gentle movement or breath work to reduce tension and anxiety, which can be useful for stress, trauma responses and chronic pain. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and building trust so people feel heard and understood while they make sense of their experiences. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to recognise unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding to everyday challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs and preferences and agree together which methods to use. This collaborative process means techniques can be adapted over time as goals change.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, access support from home, and keep continuity when life is changing. The range of options lets people choose what feels most comfortable for talking and working through difficult issues.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English