About Leanne
Leanne McCann is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship difficulties. She also offers support around trauma, addiction, parenting pressures and issues with intimacy and self-esteem. Leanne uses a calm, down-to-earth manner to make conversations feel manageable even when problems seem big.
Leanne practices in a way that keeps the person at the centre. She listens first, and then uses practical tools alongside reflective conversation.
Background and approach
Sessions can include simple exercises to notice bodily signals, moments to rethink unhelpful thoughts, and space to understand attachment and relationship patterns. Her background includes five years working in counselling and psychotherapy settings. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which are listed as part of her professional details.
That experience informs how she balances practical strategies with a gentle, person-centred presence. Clients can expect straightforward language and short, practical steps between sessions when useful. Leanne aims to help people build clearer ways of coping with day-to-day challenges and stronger awareness of what their bodies and thoughts are signalling.
She works with a wide range of concerns including eating and sleeping difficulties, chronic pain or illness impacts, communication problems, and issues tied to adoption, ageing and caregiving. For people wanting guided exploration and tangible skills, her sessions mix talking, noticing bodily responses, and practical coping techniques. Leanne is based in the United Kingdom and runs sessions in English.
She accepts international clients and offers online formats suited to different needs.
How somatic and mindful approaches work online
Leanne draws on Somatic-informed work and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice how their body and thoughts interact. Somatic-informed practice pays attention to bodily sensations and uses gentle noticing exercises to reduce tension and overwhelm, which can help with anxiety, trauma responses and chronic stress. ACT focuses on values and committed action, helping people accept difficult feelings while making small changes that match what matters to them.Finding the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will look at presenting concerns, personal goals and preferences together. That shared decision making determines whether to emphasise bodily awareness, values-led actions, cognitive work, or a mix of techniques over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, to continue work when travel is difficult, and to try shorter or more flexible session styles. Practically, different formats allow the same kinds of reflective conversation, guided noticing and homework supports to be adapted to what works best for each person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior 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
- Licensed
- Languages
- English