About Sarah
Sarah Leppard is a counsellor with five years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She focuses on helping people with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and career worries.
She also supports those facing grief, trauma, relationship strain and changes in life circumstances. Sarah shapes sessions around each person’s needs and uses plain language rather than jargon. Conversations are practical and down to earth.
How Sarah works
She aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity and compassion while offering steady support. Her work draws on client-centred ideas that place the person at the heart of the conversation. Narrative approaches help people reframe difficult stories about themselves and their lives.
She also uses psychodynamic thinking to notice patterns that repeat and solution-focused techniques to build small, manageable steps forward. People come to Sarah for many concerns including compassion fatigue, addictions, sleep or eating problems, anger, depression and ADHD. She also addresses more specific areas such as blended family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and fertility or fatherhood worries.
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and create clearer options for moving on. Sarah offers different session formats to suit varied needs, including video calls, phone work, live chat and text-based messaging. International clients can work with her in English.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
Sarah lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Sarah works with
The areas below are the ones Sarah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
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
Approaches that shape online therapy sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person and their experience. The therapist offers empathic listening and helps people find their own answers, which is useful for low self-esteem, anxiety and life changes.Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from problems by reworking the stories they tell about their lives. This approach can help with grief, family problems and feelings of emptiness by highlighting strengths and alternative perspectives.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the person’s needs, goals and preferences and suggest ways of working together. Sessions may combine ideas from different approaches depending on what seems most helpful.
Online therapy brings practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions suit people with limited bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work across distance.
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