Lushea Taylor

Person Centred Counsellor

Lushea Taylor is the Founder of Lushea Counselling Care Therapy, a specialist counselling service dedicated to supporting individuals experiencing hoarding behaviours and associated emotional and mental health challenges. A qualified, registered, and accredited counsellor with the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), Lushea works primarily from a person-centred approach, offering a compassionate, empathic, and non-judgemental therapeutic environment where clients can explore their experiences at their own pace.

For over three years, Lushea has specialised in supporting individuals living with clutter difficulties and hoarding-related behaviours. Her work recognises that hoarding is rarely just about possessions alone. Often rooted in deeper emotional experiences such as trauma, anxiety, attachment difficulties, grief, depression, low self-worth, and relationship struggles, Lushea’s approach focuses on understanding the individual beyond the visible environment.

Through culturally competent and accessible therapy, Lushea aims to create emotionally safe spaces where clients feel genuinely heard, accepted, and respected. Rather than focusing solely on clearing clutter, therapy explores the emotional meanings attached to possessions, identity, relationships, and lived experiences that may contribute to overwhelm, shame, isolation, and disconnection.

What makes Lushea’s work particularly meaningful is the personal journey that led her into counselling. Before training as a counsellor, she was herself a client, working through the emotional impact of growing up in a home affected by severe clutter that was not created by herself but by a parental figure. Living within an environment of stress, loneliness, sadness, and emotional suffocation deeply shaped her understanding of the psychological impact clutter can have on individuals and families. " Now that I 'am able to look back into my child hood experiences, and understand even further background to various dysfunctions in my own family- it all makes sense where compassion meets recovery & why it may seem to others inside the family Im the odd one out, more so because she found her voice".

Year 2020, March, COVID lockdown is where her experience of living in a building up and eventually living in a hoarding environment whilst in the last year of University really took a huge mental health turn. Many emotional events made up the word ' Stress'. But the results of stress lead to deep sadness, emotionally drained, feeling iscolated,sleepless nights, low moods and unmotivated it was a hurdle just to inform University of my struggles- pride and always used to not tell " your family business to strangers" but it needed to be done as exams and last assignments were at its peak.
 
Therapy became a turning point in her life, helping her process difficult experiences whilst discovering a sense of healing, freedom, and purpose. Witnessing denial from her parental figure within the family home and carrying emotional burdens she did not create, inspired Lushea to support others facing similar struggles with compassion and without judgement. Building upon her Bachelors Science Degree Honours) ( In Psychology) and Teaching and Learning in Education qualfications -Evening classes ( whilst working full time) combined with placements working from level 3 to Level 6 in Psychotherapy Counselling was my calling of doing what she does now.

Today, Lushea continues to advocate for greater understanding of hoarding behaviours, early intervention, and accessible person-centred mental health support within communities. Furthermore, " I do believe empowering, one step at a time can lead to lasting change for the soul".