Lesley Papper
Warm, practical therapy for lifes challenges
About Lesley
Lesley Papper is a psychotherapeutic counsellor and a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). She brings nine years of clinical experience and offers sessions in English to people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Lesley aims to help with common difficulties such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, eating concerns, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.
Her style is warm and accepting. She creates a calm space where people can talk about what matters to them.
Background and approach
Lesley works at a pace that suits each person and focuses on practical ways to manage symptoms while also looking at deeper patterns. Lesley uses a mix of approaches to meet different needs.
She may use cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build flexibility, and psychodynamic thinking to look at how past experiences affect present feelings. Sessions can be short-term or longer-term depending on goals. She often helps people make sense of how coping strategies developed and how they now get in the way.
That can include support with parenting stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, trauma and abuse, or difficulties linked to neurodiversity and hidden disabilities. Lesley encourages self-care and self-acceptance as starting points for change. Therapy with Lesley focuses on building resilience, clearer routines, and practical steps towards a more manageable life.
People are invited to explore their experience and work collaboratively on what will help them feel steadier and more hopeful.
What Lesley works with
How Lesley works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Lesley commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and stress. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical techniques to reduce unhelpful patterns, often helpful for low mood, anxiety and sleep problems.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. Lesley discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and collaborates with each person to find what fits best. That might mean combining elements from different approaches as needs change over time.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people see and hear each other for fuller conversations, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving and day-to-day life while keeping the focus on making steady progress.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- 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 counselling
- 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
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
