Lucas Whitworth
Lucas is a BACP accredited integrative therapist, working from existential and psychodynamic perspectives.
From Lucas:
The stories of our lives are present in how we are in the world. In therapy, we can find our voice, make those stories heard, and perhaps discover new ways of telling them.
I bring my natural curiosity to the work, as well as care and challenge. There is room for humour and wonder too.
I work with adults, with a particular focus on neurodivergence, including autism and ADHD. This includes people exploring or making sense of neurodivergence later in life. I have specific training in neuroaffirmative therapeutic practice.
Therapy can offer a calm centre in a world that can feel full of pressure to adapt or fit in. It can be a place to understand what actually works for you, where you can come as you are without an expectation to mask or perform.
I also see parents of neurodivergent children. In therapy, we can attend to your own experience as a parent, alongside the work of understanding and supporting your child.
I have experience working with men around sexuality, including questions of sexual identity, desire and sexual behaviour, and with those coming to a new understanding of their sexuality later in life.
Before training as a psychotherapist, I spent ten years working in the music industry, first as a touring musician and then within a record label. That experience informs my work with people across the creative industries, around creative blocks and the challenges of working as an artist.
Music has always been an important means of expression for me, and I maintain a belief in its extraordinary powers of communication and catharsis. When I began my own therapy, I discovered that it too had those powers, but also the possibility of making meaning through dialogue with another person.
Questions of meaning and purpose run through much of my work: how we have come to live as we do, what matters to us, and what we might be able to change.