Lucy Day Therapy in Oakley opens to help adults and children with their struggles

A psychotherapist has started a new village practice to help adults and children deal with a number of issues.

Lucy Day opened her Oakley practice, offering compassionate, evidence-based support for adults and children facing challenges such as anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, PTSD, relationship issues, phobias and bereavement.

Already working as a specialist children’s practitioner for the Matthew Project, a substance misuse charity in Norwich, the mother-of-two has now trained as a human givens psychotherapist.

“I wanted to go into private practice myself as I feel therapy and counselling is unregulated and it was important to me that there was some substance in what was going on locally with mental health,” said the 35-year-old.

“I wanted to be able to offer a therapeutic service that was going to be a solution-based option and was going to give people back their lives.”

The human givens model works on the premise that every person is born with a set of emotional needs and, when these are not met, people’s behaviour changes.

“When those needs are not met we know about it very quickly and often people will try to fill those gaps with something that is not good for us,” she said.

“There are a lot of mental health issues that can come off the back of those needs not being met and we use a positive structure to set goals to meet those needs in a more healthy way.”

Mrs Day is no stranger to mental health after suffering anxiety and depression in her late 20s.

“I had an ectopic pregnancy and became anxious very quickly,” said Mrs Day.

“Once I realised over time that my brain was being irrational in trying to protect me, I went out to find out why I felt like that and what could I do about it. That was the start of my journey into mental health.

“I hope that, through my experience, I can help others.”

To find out more, go to lucydaytherapy.co.uk.