About Leanne
Leanne Walker uses a person-centred approach to help clients talk through stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She is a BACP counsellor with 12 years of professional experience in the UK. Leanne keeps sessions straightforward and practical so people can start making small changes quickly.
She creates a calm space where people can share thoughts and feelings without fear of being judged. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on building confidence and motivation for daily life.
How Leanne works
Leanne combines client-centred listening with cognitive behavioural techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of thinking. She also draws on attachment ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Mindfulness skills and existential reflection are used when clients want to explore meaning, values and direction.
Typical concerns she supports include anxiety, depression, stress, coping with life changes, self-esteem, ADHD and addictions. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, sleep and eating issues, parenting strain, career matters and anger. Additional interests include attachment issues, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress and chronic health challenges.
Sessions can focus on practical coping skills, problem solving, and gentle exploration of painful memories. People leave with clear next steps to try between meetings. Leanne aims to work at a pace set by the person in front of her and to make therapy feel useful and understandable.
Leanne lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Leanne works with
The areas below are the ones Leanne selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- 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
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use discussion and reflective exercises to help people notice recurring relationship styles and try new ways of relating. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person in front of the counsellor. It involves active listening and supporting clients to find their own answers rather than giving advice. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The counsellor will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Decisions are revisited as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and use visual materials during sessions. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, shorter reflections or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments while maintaining a steady course of support.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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