Counsellor profile
Dr. Lara James, NCPS
United Kingdom
Counsellor - relationships and anxiety
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- Credentials
- NCPS
- Registration
- NCPS, United Kingdom / NCS23-03884
- Experience
- 3 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- United Kingdom
About
- Person-centred approach
- Psychodynamic elements
- Cognitive-behavioural tools
About Lara
Dr. Lara James is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and three years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, codependency, low self-esteem, grief, addiction concerns and changes in life circumstances. She also supports people dealing with sleep or eating issues, intimacy struggles, anger, career pressures and ADHD-related challenges.
Her approach is integrative. She starts from a person-centred, humanistic stance and may draw on psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural ideas when useful. Sessions are conversational but can also include practical activities and creative tasks when that helps a person say or do what words alone do not capture.
In practice she focuses on practical steps as well as making space to understand patterns. That can mean working on boundary-setting and people-pleasing cycles, noticing how past loss or abandonment affects current relationships, and building small habits for better sleep, mood and concentration. She uses methods that suit the person rather than a single fixed model.
Clients can expect a straightforward, task-orientated style alongside reflective conversation. The work often involves looking at relationship patterns, communication, and coping strategies for stress or addictive behaviours. She aims to help people get clearer about what they want and the next realistic steps they can try.
To begin, prospective clients follow the site steps to match and arrange a first session. Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and online work
She draws on person-centred methods that focus on what matters to the individual, helping people clarify goals and feel heard. This approach is useful for issues like relationship patterns, low self-esteem and codependency where understanding personal values helps guide change.She also uses cognitive-behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping habits. These practical steps can support anxiety, sleep problems, mood difficulties and addictive behaviours by teaching specific tools to try between sessions.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options, try methods, and agree collaboratively which techniques suit the client's goals and preferences. That means revisiting plans if something does not fit and combining approaches when helpful.
The biography does not list specific online formats. Please confirm which session formats are currently offered before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Some formats also make it simpler to have sessions when concentration or mobility is limited. Registered professionals and therapists can adapt techniques so they work well over distance while focusing on the practical changes a person wants to make.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Does she help with people-pleasing and boundary issues?
Yes. She works with patterns of putting others first and helps people practise saying no and setting limits.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses an integrative, person-centred stance combined with psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural ideas. Sessions may include creative exercises as well as talking.
How much experience does she have?
She has three years of clinical experience working with adults on issues such as trauma, anxiety, codependency and mood problems.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She is based in the United Kingdom and is registered with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, NCPS.
Can I work with her in a language other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats does she use?
The biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I get started with a first session?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule an initial session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are not safe at home, use the crisis and helpline numbers.