About Leah
Leah Murphy helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma. She also supports concerns such as relationship and intimacy issues, grief and loss, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stress, ADHD, and career worries. Leah is a BACP counsellor with 21 years of experience and works with a wide range of emotional and practical problems.
Leah’s approach is straightforward and warm. She aims to create an open space where a person can say what they really think and feel without judgement.
How Leah works
Sessions focus on what matters now and on small steps that can make a difference between meetings. Leah uses well-known therapy approaches to match the person and the problem. She draws on client-centred ways of working to keep the conversation focused on the person’s own goals.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is used when unhelpful thoughts and patterns are getting in the way. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, helps people learn practical skills for emotional regulation and coping. When trauma or past abuse is central, Leah offers trauma-focused work to help process difficult memories and reduce their daily impact.
She works at a pace the person can handle and checks in about goals and progress as therapy continues. Leah offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
Leah lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Leah works with
The areas below are the ones Leah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Leah's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects their experience and helps them clarify goals and choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going and uses practical exercises to change patterns and reduce distress. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing painful memories and their effects, using paced work to reduce reactivity and improve daily coping.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leah will discuss options and decide together which methods suit a person's needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative process means approaches can be adapted over time based on what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face meetings, phone sessions can fit around busy days and use less bandwidth, live chat can be useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping the focus on progress and practical coping skills.
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