Lucy Hopkins-Munn

Adult Children of Alcoholics

Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling – 3 and a half years experience.

Hi I’m Lucy 🙂 I’m a therapist based in Bristol.

With talking therapy and practical tools, I can help you with the following:

• Attachment styles
• Abandonment wounds
• Low self-esteem
• Relationship issues and break-ups
• Being in and staying in unhealthy relationships
• Lack of focus and direction in life
• Relationship anxiety
• Feelings of intense highs and lows
• Fear and anxiety in work
• Fear and anxiety in social settings
• Lack of trust in own thoughts, feelings and decisions
• University stress and experiences
• Shame and guilt about prior actions and behaviour

I also specialise in working with Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACoA) – helping ACoA learn to trust themselves, let people in without fear, and stop carrying a weight that was never theirs to hold.

Being an adult child of an alcoholic can feel like or mean:

• Feeling guilty about everything and anything
• You struggle with confrontation or authority figures
• Overthinking a lot of different scenarios and catastrophising
• Suppressing memories or emotions but knowing you should talk about them
• Being incredibly confused about loving someone that’s hurt you so much
• Having a very different experience/reaction to your sibling/siblings
• Being estranged
• Feeling like estrangement would be the best thing for you but you are worried, scared or it is not an option
• Struggle with self-worth because you have been abandoned (literally or figuratively) by your parent
• Anyone that lies to you is the worst thing they could ever do
• Trying so hard not to be like that parent that you’ve become anxious and a perfectionist
• You had to look after yourself a lot so you have become hyper-independent and struggle to say you need others or let others in
• You’ve walked on eggshells for years

(For info – my Instagram page is about working with ACoA, as opposed to general therapy, as I am creating a community there for other ACoA :)).

By listening, learning about and understanding you I help guide you and gently challenge you.
We work on how you think and feel, and develop an awareness of this and how it impacts daily life.

I then help you build trust in yourself and help with practical tools/ideas to make changes you may want to make.

Process:
1. Book a free 15 minute introductory call or email me to book a session
2. Book 30 minutes (£30), 50 minutes (£50) or 75 minutes (£70).

I understand that it can feel daunting and vulnerable to start therapy. With this in mind, I aim to create an environment that feels calm and gentle. I am also here to challenge and encourage, in a safe way, when it feels right to do so.

Search Lucy’s Therapy Room Counselling Bristol to read my Google Reviews.