Michael Leunig
Helping people become unstuck and move forward
About Michael
Michael Leunig is a counsellor and psychotherapist with six years of clinical experience. He holds a BACP credential and speaks English and German. He draws on his own life story to connect with people who feel stuck and wants to help them move forward.
Michael works in practical, down-to-earth ways. He listens and helps clients find their own answers. He uses mindfulness, hypnotherapy and solution-focused methods alongside a client-centred stance.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce stress, anxiety, depression and anger, and to address grief, addictions, and life changes. He trained at university in counselling and psychotherapy and later studied clinical hypnotherapy. He has taught mindfulness and hypnotherapy courses and has experience working with a mental health charity.
That work included supporting staff in emergency response roles and working in NHS surgeries across the north of England. Michael supports people dealing with relationship breakdown, attachment and communication difficulties, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and work or career concerns. He also focuses on panic, phobias, post-traumatic stress, process addictions, and issues linked to prejudice and discrimination.
In sessions he keeps language simple and practical. He helps clients develop tools they can use between appointments, such as mindfulness practices, brief solution-focused tasks, and guided hypnotherapy exercises when appropriate. The aim is to help people manage symptoms and build clearer ways forward.
Michael offers sessions online and accepts international clients. He aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where each person’s experience guides the work together.
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online work
Client-centred therapy focuses on the person and their feelings. The counsellor offers a supportive presence, listens carefully and helps the client find their own solutions. This approach is helpful for low mood, self-esteem issues, grief and many life changes.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and anxiety. It helps people notice unhelpful patterns and develop calmer responses to difficult thoughts and feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Michael will discuss options and decide together which methods suit a person’s goals and preferences. That means adapting techniques to how someone prefers to work and what feels most useful in the moment.
Online therapy offers practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat or text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, processing between sessions, or for people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make therapy more flexible and easier to schedule around daily life.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, German
