About Lee
Lee Whelan is a counsellor who brings practical experience to his work. He holds BACP registration and draws on five years of direct counselling practice. He focuses on anxiety alongside other concerns and aims to help people make small, steady changes.
Lee listens first and asks simple questions to clarify what matters to the client. He uses everyday language in sessions and prefers clear, achievable goals. People can expect straightforward conversations about what feels difficult and what might help next.
Background and approach
His background includes work in substance abuse support, health education and the justice system. That range shaped a flexible way of responding to different problems. It also taught him to notice the small strengths people already have.
Lee uses a mix of approaches to match the person in front of him. He draws on attachment ideas to look at how past relationships affect current feelings. He also uses cognitive behavioural approaches to spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Lee helps people weigh options and try new ways of coping. He supports people dealing with stress, grief, relationship problems, addiction and life changes, among other concerns.
People who prefer clear conversation and a calm, grounded style may find his approach helpful. He works in English and offers online formats for people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
How Lee’s approaches translate to online therapy
Lee commonly blends attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current responses and can help when anxiety, bonding or trust issues cause distress. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and trying practical experiments to change them.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lee talks with each person about goals and preferences and then chooses methods together. That collaborative planning means the approach can shift as needs change during therapy.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging to make counselling flexible. Video sessions let people talk face to face from different locations. Phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, writing out thoughts, or when someone prefers not to use audio. These options help people keep therapy consistent around busy days and different schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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