Gemma Lutwyche works with children, adults, couples, and families experiencing a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties. She supports clients with depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, anxiety, attachment and relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, and the emotional demands of pregnancy, birth, and the transition to family life. Her breadth of experience across the lifespan allows her to understand difficulties in context, including how individual wellbeing, relationships, family dynamics, and life-stage pressures can interact.

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Gemma is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of clinical experience. Since qualifying in 2001, she has worked with people of all ages across both NHS and private settings. Within the NHS, she held senior roles at Highly Specialist, Principal, and Consultant levels, managing teams of psychologists and providing supervision and training. This senior clinical background gives her strong experience in working with complexity, holding a clear overview of difficulties, and developing thoughtful, well-structured treatment plans.

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Gemma has specialist interests in mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder, trauma, attachment and relationship difficulties, and perinatal psychology. She has extensive experience supporting parents during pregnancy and the transition to family life, including the emotional pressures, identity shifts, relationship changes, and vulnerabilities that can arise during this period. Her work with couples and families is informed by this wider understanding of relationships, development, caregiving, and emotional patterns across time.

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Her therapeutic work is informed by a broad range of evidence-based approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion-Focused Therapy, Behavioural Activation, Exposure and Response Prevention, EMDR, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Exposure Therapy, Systemic Therapy, Couples Counselling, Life-Story Work, Reminiscence Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. She draws flexibly on these approaches to shape therapy around each client’s needs, goals, and circumstances.

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Gemma’s style is warm, clear, collaborative, and practical. She offers a discreet and carefully tailored approach for individuals, couples, and families who want therapy to be thoughtful, well-structured, and useful in everyday life. She helps clients clarify what they want to change, understand the patterns affecting their wellbeing or relationships, and develop more effective ways of coping, communicating, parenting, and responding to emotional challenges. Clients often value her ability to combine depth of understanding with clarity and direction, supporting greater resilience, stronger relationships, and meaningful change.