Lucy Beresford is a well-known Psychotherapist who has helped thousands of patients suffering from mental illnesses. As she has gone through it herself, being a therapist is not just a job for her, it goes far beyond helping people overcome and ease up their suffering.
The founder of an award-winning Kindness Club, Lucy runs a famous phone-in show on LBC Radio week in and week out about Relationships. As a psychodynamic psychotherapist, she helps her patients with one-on-one therapy sessions, on a weekly basis.
Author of the international best seller, Lucy has devoted her life to empowering, inspiring, and encouraging people to manifest the life they love. Although Lucy looks like she’s in her good forties, she is now 58 years old. Most of her admirers and followers are now concerned about her health.
Does Lucy Beresford Have An Illness?
As of now, Lucy Beresford doesn’t have any illness, and she is leading a healthy lifestyle. However, she’s mentioned multiple times in her confrontation with Express UK, that she has suffered from depression in the past, like twenty-some years ago.
Having gone through all that she’s been through, has helped her as a psychotherapist to look past mental blocks and help her patients break them down.
Lucy relates to her patient on a deeper level. With her authentic, powerful, and succinct speaking ability, she can help a person change their mindset or at least the perception of their reality, and how they can help themselves foster and nurture it over time. Her perceptive analysis of matters like mental health, relationships, dating, depression, and addictions is quite something.
In one of her statements in 2017, she talked about her rough childhood and relationships, and how it had affected her life for a long period. It was hard for her to come to terms with it. Lucy couldn’t wrestle with her tightly-coiled emotions that remained unresolved most of her life. Those issues manifested as disappointment and sadness.
She further spoke that she had a bad relationship with someone and she felt the need to phone a friend which she did, it changed everything going forward. Her friend put her up with a therapist and she spent most of her time dealing with depression.
Depression To Becoming UKCP Registered Psychotherapist
Having spent so much time with her therapist, Lucy began developing an interest in the field of Psychology, eventually being passionate enough that she left her finance job and decided to pursue masters in Psychotherapy. She earned her Psychotherapy degree from City University.
To further enhance her knowledge, Lucy attended Regents College’s School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology where she pursued an advanced diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy. Lucy became a UKCP registered Psychotherapist. In addition, she studied English Literature at the University of Durham. Lucy now has over two decades of clinical experience
Lucy Beresford Is A Novelist
Lucy regularly shares her expertise in the media and different publications including The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan, Stella, Metro, and such. She aims to reach as many people as possible to demystify therapy and psychology. She believes that with her authentic approach to mental health, she can help forge authentic relationships among people.
Born on 9 October 1964, Lucy has four novels to her name. Lucy published her first book “Something I’m Not” which was published by Duckworth in 2008. Quartet Books published her second novel, Hungry For Love in 2015 and McGraw-Hill published Lucy’s non-fiction book, “Happy Relationships: at home, work and play” which is translated into Portuguese, Chinese, and Brazilian.
As a psychotherapist, broadcaster, writer, publisher, radio show host, life coach, and TEDx speaker, Lucy Beresford has a net worth of a whopping $1.5 million. Putting aside all her accomplishments and endeavors, her health at the age of 58 seems to be just fine. You can’t look at her and say she is over 50. Lucy eats healthy and looks younger. Lucy Beresford’s first TEDx talk on the topic ‘Infidelity: to stay or go…?” on August 25 four years ago, now has 2.6 million views on Youtube.