About Lesley
Lesley Nance is a counsellor who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression and relationship struggles. She supports those facing life changes, people worried about self-esteem, and individuals dealing with family-related pressures. Lesley’s first aim is to make each person feel heard and understood.
She draws on a blend of talking therapies and body-focused work. That may include mindfulness practices, hypnotherapy, and solution-focused tools to build practical skills. For trauma-related issues she offers EMDR, which can help shift stuck emotional responses when talking alone feels insufficient.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to the client’s needs. Lesley combines gentle challenge with encouragement and practical exercises you can use between meetings. The approach is warm and structured rather than purely abstract or purely directive.
Lesley holds NCPS as a credential and brings nine years of experience to her practice in the United Kingdom. She frames change as a step-by-step process and aims for lasting, manageable shifts rather than quick fixes. Work with Lesley tends to focus on reviewing unhelpful patterns, strengthening coping strategies, and restoring a sense of calm and confidence.
Conversations cover thoughts, feelings and bodily responses, and often include simple practices to try at home. She encourages collaboration so clients feel involved in setting goals and choosing methods that suit them.
How Lesley’s approaches work in online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s experience. The therapist listens without judgement and helps the client find their own solutions; this method helps with anxiety, low mood and relationship worries by prioritising the client’s perspective and choices.EMDR, which Lesley offers for trauma-related symptoms, uses guided eye movements or similar bilateral stimulation alongside memory processing. It is aimed at reducing the intensity of distressing memories and stuck emotional responses that talking alone may not shift.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lesley will talk through options and test what fits the client’s needs, goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative, and methods can be adjusted as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when they prefer visual contact, while phone sessions require less bandwidth and can suit those who do not want to be on camera. Live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for short check-ins, ongoing reflection, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, and they let registered or accredited professionals provide consistent support across distances.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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