About Lesley
Lesley Papper is a counsellor with nine years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports those dealing with grief, relationship difficulties, addiction and eating concerns. Lesley works with issues such as sleep problems, low self-esteem, anger and career strain.
She brings a calm, accepting presence to sessions and encourages gentle self-care as a starting point. Her style is collaborative and practical. She aims to address immediate problems while also looking at longer-term patterns that keep people stuck.
Background and approach
Conversations may focus on current thoughts and behaviours as well as how past experiences shaped a person’s emotional responses. Lesley believes people can find healthier ways of coping and supports small, steady steps toward change. Lesley uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs, including cognitive and acceptance-based techniques alongside person-centred listening.
Therapy can be short term or longer term, depending on what someone wants to achieve. She works at a pace that feels manageable and follows the client’s agenda. In session, practical tools and reflection are balanced.
Clients may explore where difficulties began, try new ways of responding, and build routines to support wellbeing. Lesley encourages kindness to oneself and the steady building of resilience. She is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, works from the United Kingdom, and offers sessions in English.
Her approach aims to help people move from coping to living with more ease and purpose.
Approaches that translate well to online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them. It focuses on what matters to someone and on taking small actions that reflect their values, which can be helpful for anxiety and low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviours. It offers concrete exercises and coping tools that can be practised between sessions to reduce worry and improve sleep.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lesley will talk with clients about their goals, history and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. That plan can change as therapy progresses, and decisions are made together so clients feel involved in how they move forward.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read body language and have longer conversations. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief reflections, or people who find writing easier than speaking. These options make it easier to schedule consistent sessions around work, caregiving or travel, while keeping the focus on progress and practical support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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