Lindsay McCarthy

Mondays 12pm until 8pm

Tuesdays 12pm until 8pm

Wednesdays 9am until 6pm

My diary is accessible through https://www.therapylifestyleclinic.co.uk/

I am a qualified Humanistic Psychotherapist. I offer one-to-one counselling for adults who may be living with trauma related issues, grief, depression, or difficult life experiences.

Together with earning a First-Class Honours Degree in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Humanistic Approaches) from the University of Derby, I have built my experience through volunteering with the Samaritans and the NHS (Ashgate Hospice). I am now an affiliated member with The Therapy & Lifestyle Clinic, based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. 

My own journey through loss and healing has become a source of strength, which allows me to bring both professional skill and heartfelt understanding to my work.

My work draws on a blend of Humanistic therapies—Existential, Gestalt, Person-Centred, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and Transactional Analysis—brought together in a gentle, collaborative way to suit each individual.

My ideal clients are people who have lived with emotional or mental health challenges and are ready to find a gentler way forward. They may feel weighed down by the past, unsure how it has shaped their choices, yet hopeful for something different. What they long for is understanding, compassion, and a safe space to be heard without judgement. Their goals are often to accept their past with kindness, reconnect with what matters most, and create a more present, fulfilling, and balanced life.

By offering a safe space to talk and be heard, I support clients in finding greater peace and confidence. Together, we gently move from feeling stuck in the past toward looking ahead, using simple coping tools like journaling, grounding, mindful breathing, and other calming practices.

If you’re carrying the weight of past struggles or finding it hard to face the present, you don’t have to go through it alone. Together we can create a safe, supportive space where you feel truly heard and understood, and begin to gently move toward healing, self-acceptance, and a more hopeful future.

At the heart of my practice is the belief that everyone deserves a safe, understanding space to be heard. 

I can offer either online therapy or welcome my clients to a calm, non-judgemental environment where they can feel supported to explore their challenges at their own pace. With empathy, presence, and genuine care, I help people to reconnect with themselves and move toward a more fulfilling life.

My clients have often struggled to share and understand long-term emotional issues. Appreciating how this affects mental health, I provide an empathic, non-judgement space to explore their emotions at their own pace. My clients are welcome to continue with therapy ongoing, or to choose a time scale to which they would like to reach a solution to their situation. 

Through our journey together we can considering safe coping strategies, such as free writing, grounding and breathing techniques, mindfulness and journaling, finding the best way forward to create inner peace and positivity toward a better future.

I offer a free 15 minute consultation either by telephone, online or face to face in the Therapy & Lifestyle Clinic, Chesterfield. This can offer my clients to consider whether or not Humanistic therapy will work for them.  

After the free 15 minute consultation all future sessions will be for 50 minutes at £55 per session. 

Should the client choose to continue with therapy, we will book a suitable 50 minute appointment time to enable us to carryout a full assessment and establish the best approach for future sessions. 

Clients are welcome to carryout therapy online, which will be via the "Telehealth" system.  This is purely a video link and the client is not required to have any high tech equipment, just either a mobile phone or laptop which will enable them to open the link and continue with a session.  

Clients are also welcome to join me face to face at the comfortable, calming Therapy & Lifestyle Clinic in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. 

Payment for sessions are required on the day of therapy, either by bank transfer, cash or card machine. 

My cancellation policy requires 48 hours notice. Should cancellation be made within 48 hours of therapy the client will be charged in full.