Hi, it is good to meet you.
My name is Lucia. I am a credentialed therapist in the UK with 4 years of professional work experience in a wide range of settings and with a range of clients.
I have experience in helping clients with many issues, in particular, childhood trauma, addiction, gambling, sex addiction, ADHD, domestic abuse and depression and anxiety. I also work for the NHS in their gambling addiction service.
I will work with you where you are at and go at the pace that you want. Some people want to work very fast and deeply and explore patterns in their life that are holding them back. They appreciate my analytical way of working. Others want to work more slowly and focus on their emotions and pain and they appreciate my empathy and ability to really listen and understand what they are going through. Sometimes people need a mixture of both approaches.
I don't belive that I have all the answers. I am a professional but you are the expert on your life and I trust you to know what is right for you (even if you don't trust yourself yet). I work with you, collaboratively, to unpick what is and isn't working in your life and to help you enjoy your life more, to change distructive patterns and to learn to accept and forgive yourself.
I believe that a lot of our pain comes from not liking ourselves and not accepting who we are. A core part of our work together is to learn to appreciate and value your worth and strengths as an indivdual. Life is so much better when we understand ourself and have compassion for ourself, no matter what we have done.
I follow different psychological approaches depending on what feels appropriate at the time, including psychodynamic, person centred and TA.
Our first few sessions will all be about getting know each other and for me to learn about you, and for you to decide if you would like to work with me. It is very important that you feel comfortable and safe with the therapist you work with, so please do take your time to find the right person for you and use the initial sessions to make that decision and to check that you feel comfortable.
Therapy doesn’t cure everything and doesn’t have all the answers but it can really help and be a very powerful tool. Often it can be life changing. By providing a non judgemental space for clients my aim is that they become more aware of the things in their lives that are holding them back and can make positive changes in their lives.
Taking the first step to see a therapist and to explore our lives in more depth takes courage. I am here to support you in that process.
Please note I only work during the day and not evenings (UK time GMT) or weekends (however I do often work with international clients and because of the time difference it is often evenings for them).
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Family conflicts, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Sleeping disorders, Parenting issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption and foster care, Attachment issues, Autism and Asperger Syndrome, Avoidant personality, Blended family issues, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Dependent personality, Dissociation, Divorce and separation, Domestic violence, Eating and food-related issues, Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Immigration issues, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality disorders, Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships, Postpartum depression, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Prejudice and discrimination, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young adult issues
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy
BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP #397419
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Lucia Fleet. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
Lucia has been like a family to me for more than a year now.
Written on Jul 02, 2025 after therapy with Lucia for 1 year on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, bipolar disorder,
Working with Lucia has been an incredible experience. She is supportive, empathetic, understanding and incredibly kind. Thank you Lucia!
Written on Mar 12, 2025 after therapy with Lucia for 1 year on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, sleeping disorders, self esteem, career difficulties, and adhd
Lucia is a wonderful therapist, I totally recommend her !
Written on Aug 13, 2024 after therapy with Lucia for 5 months on issues concerning family conflicts, eating disorders, self esteem, and coping with life changes
She made me feel so comfortable from the getgo that I was able to pour out my emotions and feelings to her. She's a great listener and gives great advice! Very thankful I got paired up with her. <3
Written on Jul 31, 2024 after therapy with Lucia for 2 weeks on issues concerning relationship issues, trauma and abuse, and self esteem
Lucia has been paramount in helping me understand myself. My path here and now my path to the future. Lucia regularly checks in with me, reviews my rationale and offers guidance and a kind and accepting ear. Lucia is very good at opening a topic and then allowing me to problem solve and work through it, it's very clever! I can sense the shift in my thoughts and feelings. I cannot thank Lucia and the betterhelp class mentors enough. It's seems so obvious when you get through the smoke and mirrors of your mind, but without support - actually making the change would have been impossible! I'm still finding my feet, but truly have found compassion for myself, I am building my resilience and habits daily. Long may it continue. Bless Lucia and this service without it, I don't think I would ever have seen the point in anything again.
Written on Jul 10, 2024 after therapy with Lucia for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, self esteem, career difficulties, and coaching
Lucia is wondrful to talk to and has a very good grasp of what actually matters and is also very intuitive . She expresses herself well and propagates a great discussion naturally with the abiltity to ask good questions to tackle the issues at hand
Written on Jun 24, 2024 after therapy with Lucia for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, sleeping disorders, anger management, and adhd