Forest Lane Counselling
Welcome to Forest Lane
Counselling
Lucy and Andy have spent their careers supporting others in the pursuit of happier and healthier lives. This has seen them working in mental health services, with young adults with learning disabilities, with children and with families in education, and in therapeutic arts.
Over time the desire to offer the most fruitful, the most helpful therapeutic relationship to others led to them training as person-centred counsellors. Their work is now based on the premise that at times all people need a space that is safe, where they can be met and heard with understanding and acceptance.
This safe space reliably creates the conditions for growth and change.
Lucy Thompson
Individual and Relationship Counsellor
I work with individuals and couples, having further trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. I also have significant experience and training in relation to bereavement and loss, having worked for a national bereavement charity for many
years. Loss is something that touches all of us at times, but how we experience it is unique to all of us too.
I am a Certified Adoption Counsellor, able to support you
however adoption may have affected you in your life. I have experience of being a carer, and often work with those impacted by caring, and have a particular
recognition for this often undervalued role.
Andy Whitehouse
Individual Counsellor, Supervisor and Lecturer
I work with individuals, often those seeking an understanding of, and ways of living more successfully with, their neurodivergence. I have many years of experience as a
mental health professional prior to becoming a counsellor, working with those experiencing anxiety, depression and distress rooted in trauma.
I am also a clinical supervisor and teach person-centred counselling at the internationally recognised Metanoia Institute.