About Lucy
Dr Lucy Flitton offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, low mood or repeating relationship patterns. She writes plainly and helps people find clearer choices when life feels stuck. If you are facing grief, work or family stress, sleep problems, or big life changes, she aims to help you feel steadier and more able to cope.
Dr Flitton combines talking with awareness of the body, so sessions look at both thoughts and physical reactions.
Background and approach
She uses Somatic approaches alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. This mix helps people notice how feelings show up in the body, name unhelpful patterns, and try small experiments in day-to-day life. Her background spans psychology and trauma-focused work over 17 years.
She draws on attachment ideas to understand relationship patterns and on developmental and health psychology to see problems in context. Those influences shape how she works rather than a single fixed method. In practical terms, Dr Flitton helps clients learn tools for emotion regulation, boundary-setting and coping with distress.
Sessions include reflective conversation, grounding and body-based noticing, and simple behavioural steps to test new ways of responding. Many people work towards clearer values, more confidence and better sleep. She offers online formats that suit busy lives, and works with English-speaking people based in the United Kingdom and internationally.
The first step is a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the platform.
How her approaches work online
Somatic work focuses on sensing the body and noticing how emotions show up physically. It can help when anxiety, sleep problems or trauma create tightness, racing heart, or shutdown by offering simple exercises to feel more grounded and aware.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small committed steps in that direction. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and for getting unstuck when values and actions feel out of sync.
Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationship patterns shape trust, boundaries and communication now. These perspectives support work on repeating relationship patterns, intimacy concerns and family dynamics.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to try methods that suit their needs, goals and comfort. If something doesn’t fit, adjustments are made together so therapy feels useful.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging - make it easier to fit therapy around family, work and travel. They allow regular check-ins, quick access to tools between sessions and flexibility in how people want to connect.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English