About Leanne
Leanne McCann is a counsellor who supports people working through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, and a wide range of life changes. She also helps with addiction, sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem and career questions. Leanne lists phobias among her areas of focus as well.
She offers a warm, non-judgemental style and aims to make the first steps feel manageable. Her approach is person-centred at its core.
Background and approach
That means conversations start with what matters to the individual. She listens without judgement and reflects back what she hears so feelings and goals become clearer. Leanne blends practical methods into that person-centred space.
She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behavioural patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help people notice values and move towards them even when things feel hard. Attachment-based ideas are used when relationship patterns or past caregiving experiences are important.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills can be introduced to support emotional regulation and distress tolerance when needed. She adapts techniques to suit each person’s pace and needs. Leanne holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has five years’ experience.
She works with adults and offers sessions online by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. The tone of her practice is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at helping people make steady progress.
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Leanne commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then take actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try alternative ways of responding. CBT is often helpful for phobias, worries, sleep problems and behavioural change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leanne will talk through goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods in a collaborative way. Clients and therapist decide together which tools to try and when to change direction.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more accessible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or hands-free check-ins. Live chat and messaging can work for shorter check-ins, writing through feelings, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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