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Find a UK-accredited therapist who understands your language, culture, faith or lived experience. Begin with a private video consultation, in your own time.Choose a UK-accredited therapist who fits your language, culture and lived experience.
Therapy alongside free wellbeing tools you can use any time.
An all-in-one therapy platform
Not just an average platform. We include free wellbeing tools you can use any time.
Therapy that understands where you come from.
Find a UK-accredited therapist who understands your language, culture and lived experience, with free wellbeing tools you can use anytime.
Accredited therapists
Registered with BACP, UKCP, HCPC, BPS, NCS or BABCP. We check their registration and professional indemnity insurance before they see clients.
Registered with the ICO
Registration ZC127317. Your data is handled under UK GDPR.
Therapy in your language
Filter by language, including BSL, plus cultural background and faith.
You choose your therapist
Browse, filter and pick. You are never assigned to someone.
No account needed to search or filter our therapists. Take your time.
Talk to Lumi, our AI companion, plus every wellbeing tool. No cost at all.
Journal, mood tracking, Quiet Room, Calm Canvas and more, all in your account.
Send your location to someone you trust, in a tap, if you ever need to.
A gentler way to begin.
We built Lumina to give you control, choice, and transparency from the moment you arrive.
Browse free
Search and filter without an account.
Accredited only
Recognised UK bodies, verified.
Your language
Filter by language, culture and faith.
Free wellbeing
Lumi and self-guided tools included.
Whatever brought you here, it is reason enough.
People come to Lumina Care Therapy for all sorts of reasons, some clear and some hard to put into words. You do not have to have it all figured out before you start.
Tell us a little about what you are looking for and we will help you find the right place to begin.
Find someone who fits, your way.
Answer a few questions and we will suggest therapists who match, or browse everyone and decide for yourself. Either way, you can look before you sign up.
Take the matching quiz
Four short questions about what matters to you. We'll show you therapists who match.
- 1What is mainly on your mind
- 2Any approach you'd like to try
- 3Any language preference
- 4When you are usually free
Browse all therapists
See everyone. Filter by specialism, language, cultural background, faith and approach, and read each therapist in their own words.
Therapist biographies are provided for informational purposes only. Selecting a therapist does not guarantee specific outcomes. Therapists operate independently and are responsible for their professional conduct and clinical decisions.
More than a booking page.
Your account is where everything lives: your sessions, your therapist, your notes to yourself, and the tools you can use whenever you need them.
Five simple steps,
and you are in control of
every one of them.
- 1
Find someone who fits
Take the matching quiz or browse our accredited therapists. You can do both without an account.
- 2
Create your account
A few details so we can keep your records safe and support you properly. Free, and no card needed.
- 3
Book an initial consultation
Your first meeting with the therapist you chose. Some therapists offer this free, and you will always see the price on their profile before you book.
- 4
Meet by secure video
Join from your phone, tablet or laptop. There is a waiting room where you can check your camera and microphone first.
- 5
Decide together what happens next
If it feels right, your therapist sends you their rate for ongoing sessions and you book when you are ready. If it does not, you are not committed to anything.
What happens in your first session
Your first session is a conversation, not an interview. Nobody expects you to arrive with the right words, and you will never be asked to go further than you want to.
Initial consultations are usually 60 minutes. Your therapist's profile shows their length and fee before you book.
You meet your therapist
You will join by secure video from wherever you are comfortable. There is a waiting room where you can check your camera and microphone first. The first few minutes are usually just saying hello.
You talk about what brought you here
Your therapist will ask what has been going on. You can say as much or as little as you want. If you do not know how to describe it, that is a completely normal place to start.
You think about what you would like to change
Not a life plan. Just a sense of what would be different if things were better. Some people arrive knowing exactly, and most do not.
Your therapist explains how they would work with you
They will talk about their approach, what sessions would look like, and roughly how many you might need. This is a good moment to ask them anything.
You decide what happens next, separately
You do not have to decide there and then, and attending a consultation does not commit you to anything. If you would like to continue, your therapist will send you their rate for ongoing sessions and you book when you are ready.
You can pause, change the subject, or end the session at any point. It is your session.
You will always know the
price before you book.
Lumina is not a subscription. Therapists set their own fees and you pay per session, so what you spend is up to you and the therapist you choose.
Every therapist shows their fee
Each therapist profile shows what they charge for an initial consultation. Some offer this free, and you will see which before you book anything.
Ongoing sessions are agreed with your therapist
After your consultation, if you both want to continue, your therapist sends you their rate for ongoing sessions. You agree it directly with them before booking anything further.
No subscription, no lock-in
There is no monthly plan and nothing to cancel. You book and pay for sessions one at a time, and you can stop whenever you like.
Change of plan? That is fine
Cancel more than 48 hours before your session for a full refund. Between 24 and 48 hours you will get 50%. Under 24 hours, sessions are non-refundable. Payments are handled by Stripe, so we never see or store your card details.
Payments are processed securely by Stripe. We never save your card details.
Therapy for one, two, or the whole family
Whether you are working through something on your own, with a partner, or as a family, you can find a therapist qualified for that kind of work.
Individual therapy
For you, on your own.
Most people start here. You and your therapist meet one to one and work at your own pace on whatever you have brought, whether that is anxiety, low mood, trauma, work stress, grief, identity, or something you cannot quite name yet.
Sessions are typically 50 minutes.
Couples therapy
For you and your partner.
You attend together. A couples therapist helps you both be heard, and works with the patterns between you rather than taking sides. People come for communication, trust, life transitions, parenting, intimacy, or a decision that has been hard to make together.
Sessions are typically 60 minutes.
Only therapists with verified relationship-therapy accreditation can offer couples sessions on Lumina.
Family therapy
For families and the people in them.
Family sessions bring together whoever is involved, whether that is parents, children, siblings or a wider household. The focus is on how you relate to each other rather than one person being the problem.
Sessions are typically 60 or 90 minutes.
Family therapists on Lumina hold verified family-therapy accreditation and a verified DBS check.
Therapy is one hour a week.
Lumina is there for the rest.
Every account includes a set of tools you can use whenever you need them, with no therapist required and no extra cost. Some people use them daily, some only on hard nights. Both are fine.
Quiet Room
A calm, full-screen space with ambient sound and gentle visuals, from rain and ocean to fire, forest or a night sky. Set a timer and let the room hold you for a while.
Your journal
A private notebook that is genuinely yours. Write, draw, note how you are feeling. Keep entries to yourself, or share a specific one with your therapist. You choose, entry by entry.
Calm Canvas
Colouring, for adults, without the noise. Soft palettes, simple sheets, and nothing to get right.
Track & Reflect
Log your mood, sleep and movement in under a minute. Over a few weeks you start to see patterns you would never have noticed.
Moments
Short guided pauses for grounding, gratitude or a quick reset. Three steps, about two minutes each.
Resources
Practical guides on grounding, breathing, anxiety, low mood and sleep, written to be read when you are not at your best.
Lumi, your AI companion
Somewhere to put your thoughts between sessions, whenever you need it. Lumi is non-diagnostic, and is never a replacement for human care. We do not store your Lumi conversations, and they are never used to train AI models.
What we do,
and what we do not.
Your wellbeing and safety come first. Every therapist is checked before they see a client, your safety plan is written in your own words, and crisis numbers are never more than a tap away.
Therapists we have checked
Every therapist on Lumina is registered with a recognised UK body. Before they can see a client, we confirm their registration is current and that they hold professional indemnity insurance. Therapists offering family therapy also hold a verified DBS check.
A safety plan that is yours
In your account you can write your own safety plan: the signs you notice when things are getting harder, what helps, what you can do, and where you feel safe. It is there when you need it, written by you, in your words.
People you trust, one step away
You can add up to three trusted contacts. Lumina prepares a message with your location, and you send it yourself, from your own phone, to whoever you choose.
Crisis support, clearly signposted
Lumina is not a crisis service and we will not pretend otherwise. What we do is make sure the right numbers are never more than a tap away, wherever you are in the app.
If you need someone tonight
Samaritans, free, any time: 116 123.
Lumina Care Therapy is not an emergency service and messages are not monitored in real time.
If you are in immediate danger, call 999.
Everything you might want
to know before you begin.
Take the first step,
whenever you are ready.
Look around as long as you like. Browse therapists, take the quiz, read how it works. When you are ready, creating an account takes a couple of minutes and costs nothing.
Free to create
No card required
You choose
Never assigned a therapist
Culturally inclusive
Care that understands you
Free cancellation
48 hours or more before your session