Leonard Blake
Practical therapy that focuses on meaning and change
About Leonard
Leonard Blake helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression and relationship difficulties. He is also experienced with trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, eating concerns and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Leonard works with a broad range of challenges including ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, career strain and coping with life changes.
Leonard uses straightforward talking therapy. He starts from an existential viewpoint that looks at a person’s world and meaning.
Background and approach
From there he draws on attachment-based and client-centred ways of working to build a trusting conversation. He also uses cognitive behavioural ideas and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy when practical skills are useful. Sessions focus on what feels most urgent.
Conversations are down-to-earth and aim to make small, manageable changes. Leonard helps people spot patterns, try different responses and build everyday coping strategies. He also offers coaching-style support where clients want clearer goals and action plans.
Leonard has five years of practice experience and has worked with both national agencies and personal clients. His certificate with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy is listed as BACP. That registration reflects his professional membership.
People can expect a calm, exploratory approach rather than a one-size-fits-all method. Leonard tailors each session to the person in front of him and adjusts pace according to need.
What Leonard works with
How Leonard works
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Sessions & fees
How Leonard’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and reactions. Online sessions using this approach look at patterns in close relationships and aim to build safer ways of relating and expressing needs. Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work and values empathic listening and acceptance. In remote sessions this means conversations that follow what matters most to the client and move at their pace. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses clear steps to change unhelpful patterns. Remotely, CBT often includes simple exercises, homework tasks and skill practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before. That makes the process collaborative, with room to try different methods and adjust the plan as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be useful if internet bandwidth is limited or when a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter updates, written reflection or when someone prefers not to use video. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different schedules.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
