Leanne Bartrip, BACP

Leanne Bartrip is a BACP counsellor with over ten years' experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, trauma and life transitions. She uses a mixture of approaches so each session fits the person in front of her. Leanne aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk through difficult feelings and make practical changes.

Leanne trained in psychotherapy and is completing a Master’s in Psychology, which informs her thoughtful, evidence-aware practice. Her work draws on client-centred ways of working alongside cognitive behavioural techniques to help people spot unhelpful patterns and try different responses.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-based ideas and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when these fit a person's goals. This flexible, pluralistic stance means Leanne adapts her style depending on whether someone needs short-term coping strategies or longer-term exploration.

Across her career she has supported people with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, addictions and issues around self-esteem and body image. Leanne has experience with trauma and abuse, as well as work-related compassion fatigue and caregiver stress.

Leanne currently works within the NHS and has provided counselling in a range of community settings. She offers collaborative, practical work that helps people build resilience and clearer ways to manage everyday life and relationships.

Approaches that shape online therapy

Leanne frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then focus on actions that match their values. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical experiments to change day-to-day reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leanne will talk through aims, try different ways of working and agree what feels most helpful based on a person’s needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative decision-making helps tailor sessions so therapy fits the individual rather than fitting the person to a single method.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm which formats the therapist currently offers before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins around a work break, or avoiding the need to be on camera if someone prefers a phone conversation. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, behavioural experiments and reflective tasks so they work well at a distance, and Leanne will explain practical arrangements when you arrange a first meeting.