- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Leanne
Leanne McCann offers sensitive, practical support for parents feeling stressed, anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck. She presents a calm, non-judgemental manner and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, grief, relationship strains and parenting concerns. Leanne aims to make the first steps manageable and clear for people who are unsure where to begin.
Her approach centres on a person-centred way of working that values how each person sees their situation. She combines this with cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot unhelpful thinking and build different habits.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas are used to help people notice difficult feelings and act in line with their deeper values. Sessions are conversational and practical. Leanne listens first, then offers tools and small experiments to try between sessions.
She emphasises building self-awareness and clearer communication rather than quick fixes. Over time this helps people make steady changes that fit their lives. Leanne holds BACP and NCPS credentials and has five years of clinical experience.
She practises in the United Kingdom and offers support to people who need help with coping, confidence, intimacy-related worries, eating or sleeping problems, and addiction concerns. Her style is compassionate and straightforward. People can expect gentle challenge alongside practical strategies.
Where useful, she draws on ideas from attachment work and dialectical behaviour therapy to steady intense emotions and improve relationships. If someone wants to start, Leanne supports them to set clear goals and take small steps forward. She also offers supervision for trainee and qualified therapists alongside her one-to-one work.
What Leanne works with
Everything Leanne lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Leanne helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Leanne lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Leanne’s approaches translate to online therapy
Leanne uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in ways that work well online. ACT helps people notice unhelpful reactions and commit to actions that match their values, which can be practised between sessions. CBT focuses on spotting thinking patterns and trying small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or eating habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leanne treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help clients choose methods that fit their goals and lifestyle. She adjusts techniques based on progress and preference, so the plan can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options let people fit sessions around work, childcare and daily life while still accessing skilled registered or accredited professionals and therapists.
Questions people ask about Leanne
What kinds of concerns does Leanne help with?
She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and relationship strains, plus parenting-related worries and issues around sleep, eating and addiction.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and non-judgemental and focused on practical steps. Sessions mix listening with tools and experiments to try between meetings.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
Leanne has five years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns and also provides clinical supervision for trainee and qualified therapists.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds BACP and NCPS credentials and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international work are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
People can meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what suits them best.
How does pricing work for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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