About Lesley
Lesley Parfitt is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with five years' experience and the NCPS credential. She blends several approaches to suit each person's needs and focuses on eating issues alongside stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. Her work is grounded in depth-oriented therapy while remaining practical and down to earth.
Lesley aims to create a calm and steady space where people can talk about what feels hard. She listens with attention and uses different ways of working to match the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to each individual's comfort and readiness. Her background spans client-centred and existential approaches alongside cognitive behavioural methods. Somatic ideas also inform her practice, so attention to bodily experience is included when helpful.
This mix allows Lesley to address mood difficulties, panic, trauma and issues around self-esteem and body image. Practical supports include tools to manage anxiety and to work with difficult thoughts and behaviours. She also brings an interest in attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current struggles.
Work can include exploring control issues, guilt and shame, and moving towards more self-compassion. Lesley works with clients online and offers a flexible, collaborative way of working. She encourages people to raise any questions about approach or pace so therapy can be shaped around their goals and life circumstances.
How approach and online therapy work together
Lesley draws from Somatic-informed practice, Attachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy to shape online work. Somatic-informed ideas invite attention to bodily sensations and how the body holds stress, which can help with trauma, anxiety and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can be useful for relationship strains and trust issues. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre, offering a non-judgemental space that supports self-exploration and personal growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lesley collaborates with each person to decide which methods to try and adjusts the mix as therapy progresses. That means goals, preferences and how someone responds guide the choices rather than a fixed set of interventions.
Online therapy provides practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue support when travel or location would otherwise be a barrier. Lesley uses the different formats to offer paced conversations, short check-ins or deeper sessions depending on what a person needs at the time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English