About Lesley
Lesley Papper offers support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and addiction issues, and the fallout from trauma and abuse. She also helps with sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, parenting strain, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related difficulties.
Lesley works with people coping with life changes and with additional challenges such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image and communication problems. Lesley is a BACP member, which means she is registered with the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists.
How Lesley works
She brings nine years of experience and uses a mix of practical talking approaches. Sessions are calm and conversational. The focus is on what is useful to the person in front of her.
Her style is warm and accepting. Lesley invites people to look at how old coping habits developed and whether they still help now. She encourages self-acceptance and everyday self-care as a basis for change.
Work can include short-term problem solving or deeper reflection about patterns and past experiences. Lesley draws on a range of methods including acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive and solution-focused techniques, and psychodynamic ideas when helpful. Together with each person she sets priorities and works at a pace that feels manageable.
The goal is to build resilience and structure so changes can last. Sessions are available online in formats that suit different needs. Lesley supports people who are navigating adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment themes, neurodiversity, ageing concerns, cancer and chronic pain, and those coping after natural or human-caused disasters.
Lesley lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Lesley works with
The areas below are the ones Lesley selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Lesley’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps towards those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings arise. It suits people dealing with anxiety, depression and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, sleep issues, low mood and anger. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions and offers a non-judgemental space to be heard, which can help with grief, self-esteem and relationship concerns.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Lesley will discuss options during early sessions and agree a plan with the person based on their goals and preferences. She aims to be collaborative and will adapt methods as needs change over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around daily commitments and varying energy levels.
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