About Michael
Michael Leunig is a counsellor and psychotherapist with six years of professional experience. He holds BACP membership and speaks both English and German. Michael draws on his own life experiences and professional path to help people who feel stuck, whether that's from grief, trauma, relationship breakdowns, or long-standing low mood.
He uses straightforward conversation and practical strategies in sessions. Michael encourages clients to notice small shifts and build on them.
Background and approach
He believes people often already hold the answers they need, and his role is to help bring those into focus. Michael trained at university in counselling and psychotherapy and later specialised in clinical hypnotherapy and mindfulness work. He has worked with the mental health charity Mind and has experience supporting emergency services staff through workplace schemes.
He has also worked within NHS surgeries using solution-focused methods. In practice he combines client-centred listening with targeted techniques from mindfulness and hypnotherapy. Sessions aim to reduce anxiety, manage mood, tackle phobias and panic, and address stress related to caregiving, work or life transitions.
He also supports people dealing with addictions, anger, and issues around self-esteem. Michael currently works in independent practice and has run courses for other professionals on mindfulness and hypnotherapy. He prefers a collaborative approach, setting clear, realistic steps with each person he meets.
If someone wants practical help to move forward, he offers calm, direct support to find workable next steps.
How Michael's approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building a supportive relationship. The therapist offers empathic presence and helps people talk through worries, making room for their own solutions. This approach suits issues like low self-esteem, grief and general anxiety.Mindfulness Therapy involves guided attention to the present moment and simple exercises to reduce reactivity. It can help with stress, panic, chronic pain and seasonal low mood by teaching small daily practices to manage difficult thoughts and feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michael will explore your goals, preferences and how you respond to different techniques, and then suggest a combined plan. Decisions are made together so the method fits your needs and life circumstances.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter real-time check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or travel and let you try different formats to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, German
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