Lisa Badman-Dunphy, BACP

Lisa Badman-Dunphy is a BACP psychotherapeutic counsellor with a background spanning over 20 years working across the NHS and care sectors. She draws on that experience to help people facing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and big life transitions. Lisa offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about what matters to them and begin to make sense of difficult feelings.

Her work is rooted in Psychodynamic Therapy, which looks at how past experiences influence present thoughts and behaviour. Sessions focus on uncovering patterns that maintain worry, low mood or relationship problems. Lisa aims to help people notice these patterns and make different choices in daily life.

She works one-to-one and provides sessions online and by phone, usually meeting once a week. Therapy can be short term to address a specific issue, or open-ended if deeper work is needed. Practical arrangements, including session rhythm and length, are agreed together.

Lisa emphasises empathy, openness and respect in every session. She supports people dealing with grief, trauma, body image and sexual expression concerns, including kink and non-mainstream relationships. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative, helping people feel heard while they try out new ways of coping.

People come to Lisa to explore relationships, parenting pressures, career strain, chronic health or caregiving stress, and the impact of early family dynamics. She encourages curiosity about feelings and gentle steps towards change.

Psychodynamic approaches and online counselling

Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how early experiences and unconscious patterns shape current feelings and actions. It helps when worries, relationship problems or repeating life patterns feel hard to shift by willpower alone. By talking through these patterns, people often gain more choice over how they respond.

Lisa uses this approach to help people understand the roots of anxiety, low mood, intimacy issues and the effects of past trauma. The work is conversational and reflective rather than directive, with the therapist and client deciding together what to focus on and how long to work for.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Lisa will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs, goals and preferences. That might mean focusing on a specific problem for a short period, or opening up longer-term exploration of relationship and family dynamics.

The biography notes she offers one-to-one sessions online and by phone. Confirm the current session formats and scheduling before booking. Online and phone sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, allow quick check-ins during a lunch break, or remove travel time so sessions feel more manageable.