Lisa Howarth, BACP

Lisa Howarth is a counsellor who offers online support for anxiety, low self-worth, grief and relationship difficulties. She works with people facing trauma, shame, sexual abuse recovery and life transitions. Lisa also helps with issues around identity, intimacy and neurodivergence.

Her manner is warm and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her. Lisa aims to build trust and self-compassion while helping clients notice and change unhelpful patterns.

Lisa uses a person-centred approach that keeps the client's experience at the centre of the work. She brings trauma-focused and somatic ideas when painful experiences are stored in the body. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is offered to help with thinking patterns that increase anxiety and low mood.

She describes herself as neurodiversity-aware and is an LGBTQIA+ ally. That means she pays attention to how identity and difference can shape someone's struggles and strengths. She also helps people talk about boundaries, desire, pleasure and intimacy in ways that feel manageable.

Lisa holds BACP, which denotes registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She has seven years' clinical experience working with a range of concerns. People who want to start simply click the service's Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to arrange sessions.

How Lisa's approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's own priorities and pace, offering space to be heard and understood and helping people build self-compassion and clearer boundaries. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical steps to reduce anxiety or low mood. Trauma-Focused and somatic ideas help when past hurts are held in the body, using gentle techniques to notice sensations and manage distress.

Finding the right way of working is a shared process. The therapist will discuss options with each person and decide together which approach or combination fits best, based on needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative start helps make sessions feel relevant from the first meetings.

Confirm the exact online session options before booking, as the biography does not list formats. Online work can make therapy easier to fit into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to continue care when circumstances change, while the therapist and client adjust the approach to suit practical needs and goals.