Leanne Bartrip, BACP

Leanne Bartrip is a BACP counsellor with ten years' experience supporting people through common and complex emotional difficulties. She offers a warm, person-centred way of working and adapts sessions to each person’s needs. Lea aims to help people feel understood and to build practical skills they can use outside the room.

Lea trained in psychotherapy and is completing a Master’s in Psychology, which informs her reflective approach. She draws on several ways of working rather than using a single method, so sessions are shaped around the individual rather than a fixed formula.

Her practice covers a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem problems and addictions. She also supports people with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strains, eating and sleeping difficulties, bipolar disorder, ADHD and career challenges.

Additional areas of focus include abandonment and attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, autism and Asperger Syndrome, blended family and communication problems, chronic illness and caregiver stress, and coping after natural or human-caused disasters. Lea has experience in both community and NHS settings, working with people from varied backgrounds.

Her style is collaborative and calm. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness, reduce distressing patterns and help people make changes that fit their life. Outside work she enjoys time with her dog and simple pleasures like a good book or motorsports.

How Leanne’s approaches translate to online support

Lea uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) among other approaches. ACT focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and on clarifying personal values to guide change. CBT works on spotting unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and testing practical alternatives to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right fit is part of the therapeutic process. Lea works collaboratively with each person to choose which methods feel useful. She will check in about goals, preferences and what helps most as sessions progress so the approach can be adjusted together.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm the available options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel by removing commute time and offering flexible scheduling. It also allows for shorter check-ins when a brief update feels more helpful than a full session. Many people find that working this way helps them practise strategies in their everyday settings and carry changes into daily life.