Sarah Leppard
Supportive BACP counsellor focused on practical change
About Sarah
Sarah Leppard is a BACP-registered counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She offers calm, non-judgemental support for people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and life changes. Sarah aims to make each conversation practical and straightforward so clients can start feeling better sooner.
Her style is warm and person-focused. She listens to what matters to the individual and tailors the conversation to fit their situation.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping skills, spotting unhelpful patterns, and setting small, achievable goals. Sarah draws on client-centred and narrative approaches to help people untangle painful stories about themselves. She also uses psychodynamic ideas to look at repeating patterns that cause distress.
Where useful, she brings solution-focused techniques to create clear, short-term plans for change. She works with a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, depression, ADHD, parenting strain, and chronic illness or pain. Additional focuses include blended family issues, fertility and fatherhood concerns, guilt and shame, and compassion fatigue.
People can expect a collaborative, paced approach. Sarah helps clients identify priorities and practical next steps. Her aim is to support people as they rebuild confidence, manage symptoms, and move towards goals that matter to them.
What Sarah works with
How Sarah works
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Sessions & fees
How Sarah’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in the room. The therapist listens with empathy and helps clients find their own solutions, which is useful for issues like low self-esteem and life changes.Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from the problems they face by looking at the stories they tell about their lives. This approach can be effective for grief, identity issues and feelings of emptiness.
Psychodynamic ideas look at repeating patterns and past experiences that shape current feelings and reactions, helping people understand why certain situations trigger them. This can help with relationship patterns, anger and long-standing emotional difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Sarah will work together with each person to choose methods that suit their goals, needs and preferences. That collaborative process means plans can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow a face-to-face feel for deeper conversations, phone sessions can fit into a work break or be used when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around 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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
