Lyn Hemeury

Lyn is a BACP-accredited Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor and co-founder of White Lodge Therapy, with over thirteen years of professional experience supporting adults, couples, children, young people and families.

At the heart of Lyn’s work is an understanding that difficult and painful experiences can affect how we see ourselves, relate to others and navigate our lives. She has a particular interest in supporting people experiencing anxiety, grief and bereavement, traumatic or distressing life experiences, relationship difficulties and attachment-related concerns. This may include loss and significant life changes, difficulties within intimate or family relationships, experiences from childhood that continue to affect life in the present, or patterns in relationships that can feel difficult to understand or change.

Lyn offers a compassionate, relational and non-judgemental space in which clients can explore what has happened to them, how they are feeling and the impact their experiences may be having on their relationships, emotional wellbeing and sense of self. Therapy provides an opportunity to make sense of difficult experiences at a pace that feels manageable, developing greater self-understanding and finding ways of moving forward that feel meaningful to the individual.

Therapeutic approach

Lyn works integratively, drawing upon psychodynamic, person-centred and CBT-informed approaches, alongside EMDR, attachment-focused work, solution-focused strategies and creative therapeutic approaches when working with children and young people.

Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, Lyn adapts therapy according to the individual, their circumstances and what they hope to gain from counselling. Her work pays particular attention to relationships and attachment, including how earlier experiences and relationships may influence present-day feelings, behaviours and ways of relating to others.

Her specialist areas of interest include:

• Grief, bereavement and loss
• Trauma and distressing or adverse life experiences
• Relationship, couple and family difficulties
• Attachment and relational patterns
• Anxiety and emotional overwhelm
• Low mood and depression
• Low self-esteem and difficulties with self-worth
• Anger and emotional dysregulation
• Self-harm and suicidal thoughts
• Workplace stress and significant life changes

Her aim is not simply to focus on symptoms, but to understand the person and their experiences as a whole. Counselling can offer clients the opportunity to explore thoughts and feelings safely and confidentially, gain insight into recurring patterns, develop greater emotional awareness and discover ways of responding to themselves and others differently.

Clinical experience

Lyn has worked across NHS, crisis, community, EAP, Private Medical Insurance and private-practice settings. Her professional background includes significant experience within NHS children and adolescent mental health services and crisis services, where she has undertaken specialist crisis assessments, brief therapeutic interventions and multidisciplinary care planning with young people experiencing acute emotional distress.

She has also held senior clinical and managerial roles, leading and supporting teams, contributing to service development and maintaining a strong focus on safe, ethical and person-centred care.

Clinical supervision

Alongside her therapeutic practice, Lyn is an experienced Clinical Supervisor. Her approach to supervision is reflective and relational, informed by the Seven-Eyed Model of supervision.

She supports counsellors and therapists in exploring their clinical work from different perspectives, including the therapeutic relationship, client process, practitioner responses and the wider context surrounding the work. Her aim is to provide a supportive but thoughtful supervisory space that encourages professional development, greater clinical awareness and safe, ethical practice.

White Lodge Therapy

As co-founder and Practice Manager of White Lodge Therapy, Lyn is involved in both the clinical and operational development of the service. She supports the therapy team and is committed to maintaining an accessible, ethical and client-centred practice.

Central to her work is creating an environment in which people experiencing loss, trauma, emotional distress or relationship difficulties can feel heard, understood and accepted without judgement.

Professional membership

Lyn is an Accredited Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works as an independent practitioner. She is committed to practising in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework.

Her BACP registration is held on a register accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.