Lisa Anderson , BACP

Lisa Anderson is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She works with people experiencing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, ADHD, relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, anger, self-esteem difficulties and life changes. Lisa also lists additional focus areas such as attachment concerns, codependency and isolation.

Her sessions use a person-centred stance that keeps the client’s experience central. She listens without judgement and reflects feelings plainly. Lisa often brings mindfulness and attention to bodily sensations into the work, helping people notice how thoughts and sensations link to moods and behaviour.

She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas alongside attachment-based thinking to help clients notice what matters to them and what gets in the way of acting on those values. Emotion-focused elements are used when relationships and closeness are the focus of a conversation. Sessions can include practices to steady attention and name felt experience.

Lisa describes a polyvagal-informed approach in her practice, which means she pays attention to nervous-system responses like tension, dissociation or heightened alertness and how those affect feeling and relating. She guides people to recognise those patterns and to experiment with small shifts in posture, breath and attention to reduce reactivity.

Her background includes many years of personal exploration in meditation, mindfulness and somatic work, and she brings that lived learning into practical exercises rather than abstract theory. If someone wants to work on boundaries, people-pleasing or recovering a sense of self after heavy caring roles, she offers a straightforward, real-world style of support.

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