Leah Murphy
Practical, empathic counselling for everyday struggles
About Leah
Leah Murphy helps people deal with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. She also supports issues around intimacy, self-esteem, parenting, career changes, ADHD and bipolar. Leah is a BACP counsellor with 21 years of experience and works with clients from the United Kingdom and beyond.
Leah keeps sessions straightforward and calm. She encourages people to say what they need in their own words and listens without judgement.
Background and approach
The first meeting focuses on what feels most urgent and on small steps that can help right away. Her approach combines person-centred care with tools from cognitive behavioural methods and dialectical behaviour strategies. That mix aims to make feelings easier to manage and daily routines less overwhelming.
Leah also uses trauma-focused work when past experiences are blocking progress. In practical terms Leah offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options let people pick what fits their day and energy level.
International clients who speak English can connect from other countries. Leah draws on two decades of practice across a range of concerns, including eating and sleeping problems, anger, body image, chronic health challenges and caregiving stress. She pays attention to how life events and relationships shape current struggles.
Sessions are used to try out new ways of coping and to build on strengths. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability. Leah aims to make each step clear so people can focus on the work that matters to them.
What Leah works with
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Sessions & fees
How Leah’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on giving the person space to describe what matters most. The therapist listens closely and helps people feel heard while they work out their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical tools for managing anxiety, low mood and unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Leah will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then tailor methods to match each person's needs. That collaborative process helps make sessions feel relevant and focused.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing reflections and people who prefer typing to speaking. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit into busy lives.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
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 counselling
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
