- Years in practice
- 5
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Self esteem
- Focus
- Career difficulties
About Sarah
Sarah Leppard is a counsellor in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She uses a respectful and compassionate approach to help people facing anxiety, low self-esteem, loss, career challenges and big life changes. She writes to people who are ready to take a step towards feeling better and finding clearer direction.
Sarah focuses on practical conversations that match each person’s needs. She adapts sessions to the concerns brought in, whether that is stress, grief, parenting pressures or problems with motivation and confidence.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at building understanding and small, doable changes rather than quick fixes. Her work draws on client-centred ideas that put the person’s experience at the heart of therapy. Narrative techniques are used to help people reframe difficult stories and spot different ways of living.
Psychodynamic thinking can surface patterns from the past that still affect day-to-day choices. People often come for help with relationships, family-related worries, trauma, eating and sleeping problems, or addiction-related concerns. Sarah also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver strain, fertility stress and bereavement.
She addresses anger, feelings of emptiness, and challenges linked to ADHD. Conversations are personalised and paced to what each person needs. Sarah aims to create a calm space for honest talk and practical planning.
She encourages clients to test changes between sessions and bring back what helps or what doesn’t.
What Sarah works with
Everything Sarah lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sarah helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Depression
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sarah lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s own perspective at the centre of the work. The counsellor listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, which helps with issues like low self-esteem, relationship concerns and parenting pressures.Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from difficult problems by looking at the stories they tell about their lives. Rewriting or reframing those stories can reduce shame and open up new choices for coping with grief, addiction or career setbacks.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and then try different approaches together. That collaborative stance means the style can change as progress is made or as priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited mobility. Video calls give a face-to-face feel, phone sessions require less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging suits shorter check-ins or days when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity and fit sessions around work, childcare or medical appointments.
Questions people ask about Sarah
What issues does this counsellor help with?
Areas commonly addressed include stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, career difficulties, grief, trauma and parenting concerns. The list also includes eating and sleeping problems, addictions and relationship or family-related worries.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Sessions are person-focused and practical. Conversations centre on a client’s experience, reworking unhelpful stories and spotting recurring patterns to make small changes.
What background and experience does the counsellor have?
She has five years of professional experience working with a broad range of emotional and life problems, including caregiver stress, chronic illness, fertility issues and bereavement.
What credentials and location are listed?
Sarah holds BACP as a credential and practises in the United Kingdom.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Clients may meet by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging according to preference.
How do fees and subscriptions work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with this counsellor?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
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