Leanne McCann
Supportive integrative counsellor focused on everyday struggles
About Leanne
Leanne McCann helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship problems. She also supports people facing trauma, addiction, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, low self-esteem and career or life transitions. Leanne is based in the United Kingdom and works in English.
Leanne presents as an integrative counsellor with a person-centred core. That means sessions focus on the person's experience and priorities. She creates a warm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through painful memories, patterns of thinking, or confusing feelings.
Background and approach
She draws on several practical approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy techniques. These methods are used to notice thoughts and feelings, improve communication, and build coping skills. The work often includes short exercises and reflections between sessions.
Her background lists five years of practice and professional recognition as BACP and NCPS. Leanne also has experience supporting people with specific concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, chronic illness, body image, codependency and sexual diversity issues including BDSM and kink culture. Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different needs.
International clients are accepted and Leanne offers a collaborative, steady approach to help people take the next step forward.
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Sessions & fees
How Leanne’s approaches work online
Leanne uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on values and small, practical steps to move toward a life that matters to the person. Attachment-Based ideas look at how early relationships affect current patterns. This approach can help people understand closeness, trust and how they react in relationships. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers tools to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural experiments to change routines and mood.Deciding which approach to use is part of the therapy. Leanne works collaboratively to choose methods that match the person’s goals, needs and preferences. She will discuss options and adapt techniques as the work progresses so the plan stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can be useful for brief updates, reflective notes or people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical tools and steady progress.
| 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
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
