About Leonard
Leonard Blake helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression and trauma. He supports people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain and career stress. He also works with issues such as ADHD, eating and body image struggles, anger, self-esteem, bipolar mood challenges and coping with life changes.
Leonard takes a practical and exploratory approach in sessions. He starts from an existential viewpoint to understand a person’s world and values.
How Leonard works
From there he uses talking, reflection and tailored techniques to help people find clearer direction and stronger coping skills. His counselling style is warm and collaborative. He listens for patterns in relationships and feeling states and helps people test small changes between sessions.
Clients can expect straightforward feedback and tools they can try in day-to-day life. Over five years in independent practice, Leonard has worked with people referred from national agencies as well as personal clients. He holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP in his credentials.
When someone first meets him, Leonard focuses on building an understanding of the problem and what the person wants to change. He adapts methods from attachment-based work, client-centred counselling, cognitive behavioural techniques, dialectical behaviour ideas and emotionally-focused work to suit each person’s needs.
Leonard lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Leonard works with
The areas below are the ones Leonard selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how past and current relationships shape feelings and expectations. In online sessions this helps people understand patterns in close relationships and practice new ways of connecting or setting boundaries. Client-centred counselling places the person’s experience at the heart of the work. It uses listening, reflection and empathy to help people make sense of choices and find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, past attempts and preferences and then agree a way forward together. That might mean using attachment ideas alongside cognitive techniques for practical change, or spending more time on emotionally-focused work to process grief or trauma.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people read facial cues and use shared exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick reflections, ongoing support between sessions or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caring commitments and different time zones while still working with registered or accredited professionals and therapists.
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