About Leah
Leah Murphy is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress, anxiety and relationship worries. She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, grief, depression and issues around identity and intimacy. She gently encourages people who feel unsure about therapy and aims to make the first step easier to take.
Leah offers a calm, non-judgemental space for clients to talk about what is most pressing in their lives.
Background and approach
She listens first and works with each person to set clear, practical goals. Her style is direct but empathic, and she uses straightforward tools to help people cope day to day. Over 21 years in practice have given Leah broad experience with common concerns such as sleep and eating problems, anger, low self-esteem, and challenges at work.
She also addresses more complex needs like bipolar disorder, ADHD and co-morbid conditions, and supports people facing long-term illness or caregiving stress. Leah draws on several recognised therapy approaches to match the work to each person’s needs. She integrates practical skills for managing emotions with trauma-focused methods when past events are central to distress.
The emphasis is on usable strategies clients can try between sessions. Sessions are conducted in English and Leah accepts international clients. She aims to make therapy accessible by offering different formats and by helping people find a pace that suits their life.
How Leah’s approaches work online
Leah draws on client-centred work and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to shape online sessions. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on creating an accepting space where the client’s concerns lead the conversation and the counsellor reflects and clarifies. It helps people feel heard and understood when they want to talk through emotions or relationship issues. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, sleep and mood difficulties because it teaches step-by-step strategies to test and shift unhelpful thoughts.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Leah will work collaboratively to decide which methods to use based on a person’s needs, goals and preferences. She adapts the mix of listening, skills practice and trauma-focused work as the sessions progress so the plan stays relevant.
Online work is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and text-based options let people check in between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and let people try different ways of connecting to find what works best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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