About Leanne
Leanne Kernohan is a counsellor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and the fallout from trauma and addiction. She approaches sessions with a straightforward, supportive style that aims to make the first steps less daunting. Leanne invites people to use their own strengths while trying out new ways of coping.
She works from the view that each person knows their story best. Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what feels achievable.
Background and approach
Practical tools and simple conversations are used to make progress feel real and manageable. Her work draws on several established approaches, including cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance-based work. These methods help people notice unhelpful thought patterns, try different actions, and rebuild a steadier daily routine.
Attachment-informed thinking is also part of her practice when relationships and connection are central concerns. Leanne holds BACP registration, which is noted as her listed credential. She has four years of professional experience in clinical and counselling settings across the United Kingdom.
That experience includes supporting people with low mood, sleeping problems, relationship and intimacy issues, and difficulties around parenting and career change. People who choose Leanne often want a practical, down-to-earth space to talk through immediate pressures and longer term worries. She aims to help people set realistic goals and build clear steps towards them.
Work can include short-term problem solving or a longer dialogue about life change and recovery.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, low mood and motivation by teaching flexible ways to respond rather than trying to avoid feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small changes in behaviour to reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood. It is useful for day-to-day coping and building routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships affect how people connect and trust others; it can be helpful when relationship or intimacy issues are part of the difficulty.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences and the problems they want to address. Sessions often blend talking, short exercises and practical tasks agreed between therapist and client.
Online work can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or messaging can allow shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and reach help despite distance or schedule challenges.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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