EMBARK
Counselling & Coaching with Lucy
This is your journey of self discovery
The Embark Way
You are a living, breathing ‘human becoming’, evolving and discovering your way through life. Sometimes you fly, sometimes you get stuck. Along the way, you may slip sideways or fall backwards.
Every journey of self-discovery begins with one simple step. However daunting that first step may seem, Lucy from Embark Counselling & Coaching will support and guide you from start to finish.
Counselling is to have someone walking side-by-side with you, learning from your past to put you on the right path and navigating the hazards to give you strength and courage to continue your onward journey.
Coaching is to look boldly into the future and design a fulfilling life you can aspire to. A meaningful life that has its foundations in your unique strengths and core values.
Lucy mainly uses the powerful IFS (Internal Family System) model of Therapy, helping you to identify all of the many parts within your internal system and also helping you to become more self-led.
Are you ready to Embark on your journey of self-discovery?
Who You’ll See
Lucy Parker
Embark Founder, Lucy Parker, is a trained and qualified counsellor, psychotherapist, coach, yoga teacher, meditation teacher and breath-work facilitator. She is passionate about IFS (Internal Family Systems) and aims to support you to deeply honour your own internal system in order to better understand both your internal as well as external dynamics.
A widow, wife, sister and mother, she describes herself as a “living breathing human becoming - embarking on my own journey many years ago and continuing to bear witness to the adventure.”
Lucy began working privately with clients in 2010 as a yoga, breath-work and meditation teacher. In 2023 she qualified as a BACP registered counsellor, coach and psychotherapist. Working therapeutically with hundreds of clients over the years has taught her one key thing:
“We are all ultimately searching for health, to feel truly whole.”
Level 1 IFS Therapist through IFS UK, Bristol 2024
Registered through the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists)
Level 7 Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Coaching, University of East London, 2021 - 2023
Bereavement Counselling, St Raphael’s Hospice, 2022 - 2023
Yoga Teacher Training through Yoga Campus, London in 2009 - 2011
Cost & Booking
When you’re ready to take the first step, here’s how to book:
Click here to use our user-friendly online booking system. Once your request has been submitted, you will receive an email or text message to confirm your session.
You can also email Lucy directly via this link - Counselling Enquiry and she will respond to your enquiry with an email or text message.
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Book a FREE, informal
15-minute call
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Counselling - 60 minutes £68
Coaching - 90 minutes £100
FAQs
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This is a hard one to answer and will depend on many factors. However, you will always be in the driving seat and we can discuss together how many sessions you may need.
We might start with a course of six sessions before a review, when a second course of six might be agreed.
We will regularly review progress - the changes or benefits noticed - and the best next steps for you.
For some therapy is quite quick , six to eight sessions, and for others it can be a long and fruitful commitment to self development and an investment in your own growth, understanding and acceptance.
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Many people worry that the issue they present in therapy is not worthy of counselling. This is never the case and it is not even necessary to have a specific issue.
Some come to counselling to better understand themselves and others wish to explore their current behaviours, beliefs and self limiting or critical inner voices.
Whatever your reason for exploring counselling I assure you it’s valid and you’ll be greeted with curiosity, compassion and care.
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Embark sessions embrace both counselling & coaching modalities and practices.
My training and experience in both counselling and coaching allow you to:
Build strong foundations of understanding your past drivers, impressions and experiences that have shaped your present as well as start to build a new vision for your future with your values, goals and aims firmly in your sight.
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IFS (Internal Family Systems) is a transformative tool of therapy that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self.
We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us.
Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.
I am IFS Trained to Level 1 and have already signed up for Level 2!
Read more in my Blog - Discover IFS.
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Yes! If it’s easier for you to meet online, that can be arranged via Zoom.
For online sessions, please ensure you have a good internet connection and that you are somewhere private and comfortable where you can feel relaxed and know you can’t be overheard.
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Embark counselling sessions are £68 per hour [60 minutes].
You can pay weekly or in sets in advance. All payment methods are available.
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Normally not. However, for your safety, you will be asked to complete an assessment form before any work is begun and this will include questions about your medical history.
Remember I, like most counsellors and psychotherapists, are not medically trained and so cannot, and certainly should not, offer any medical advice.
Should your form reveal anything that might raise a question or concern you’ll be asked to have a conversation with your GP before starting therapy.
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Yes, I offer a first session for this very reason. To check you're completely comfortable with the connection between you and I and the relationship we can co-create.
After this first session, you are free to choose your preferred next step. You'll be in charge and you decide.
