Lydia Freeman

Lydia Freeman is a female therapist based in the United Kingdom who recognises that looking for the right therapist and starting therapy is a significant step. She honours the courage involved in making time for oneself and in prioritising emotional wellbeing.

She believes that people from many backgrounds can benefit from therapy. Taking time to attend to feelings, experiences and overall wellbeing can lead to greater self-understanding, improved resilience during difficult periods, and movement towards a more fulfilling life even amid a busy schedule.

With five years of experience, Lydia brings a naturally creative curiosity into the therapy room to help clients express and process emotions, gain insight, and develop new coping strategies. Trained in humanistic approaches, she views each person as a unique individual with potential, and tends to approach difficulties from the perspective of what has happened to someone rather than what is wrong with them.

She recognises the lasting impact of trauma and stressful experiences that can leave people feeling unsafe or vulnerable, and works to restore a sense of safety, trust and security in relationship. Lydia integrates other ways of working, including unconscious process, human development and attachment perspectives, which can offer further understanding while strengthening the therapeutic relationship. She offers a compassionate, non-judgemental and honest space - a place to explore, celebrate and value each person’s experiences.

Lydia supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, grief, trauma and abuse, family and parenting concerns, self-esteem and career issues, and provides LGBT and gay-affirming support. Therapy with her is a place to speak about things that may be difficult to share elsewhere, to work on healing from trauma, to improve relationships including the relationship with oneself, and to build a life that feels more aligned with one’s true self.

She is a registered member of the BACP and follows their ethical framework for professional practice. Lydia maintains an ongoing programme of professional development to keep her skills and knowledge current.

She has a particular interest in supporting people navigating purity culture, religious trauma, and the deconstruction of faith from high-demand religions, and understands how societal expectations and religious teachings can shape identity, sexuality, relationships and self-worth. In therapy she can explore evolving beliefs and values with compassion, help address shame, confusion, frustration or grief that may arise, support clients to reclaim autonomy and self-trust, encourage the embodiment of the belief that they are inherently good, and honour the often painful, liberating and messy process of deconstruction without pressure to reconstruct unless the client chooses to.

She invites you to get in touch to explore whether she could be the right therapist for you. It is an honour to walk alongside the individuals who invite her into their journeys.