Lynfa Wharam, NCPS

Lynfa Wharam is a psychotherapeutic counsellor and hypnotherapist registered with NCPS in the United Kingdom, with seven years' experience working directly with clients. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem, depression, addictions, family and blended family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, eating concerns, parenting and career difficulties. Lynfa also lists ADHD, coaching and a range of attachment and relationship concerns among her focus areas.

Lynfa adopts an integrative style. She mixes person-centred listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioural approaches and mindfulness. She also uses hypnotherapy and draws on Jungian ideas when these approaches fit a person's needs. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused when needed, or exploratory when people want to understand patterns in their relationships.

Her background includes two decades working in international law firms in London and Essex before moving into counselling. That earlier career shaped her practical mindset and experience of high-pressure environments. During the pandemic she volunteered providing mental health support to NHS workers and care-home staff through Project5.

People who contact Lynfa can expect direct, straightforward conversation about difficult topics such as intimacy, commitment, communication problems, blended household stress, grief and recovery after abuse. She offers individual work and has also worked with people around sexual health and relationship difficulties.

Sessions aim to identify immediate coping strategies and longer-term changes to patterns of thinking and behaviour. Clients explore attachment and abandonment concerns, control and commitment issues, or practical parenting and co-parenting challenges. The approach balances short-term tools with deeper exploration of personal history.