Leanne McCann, BACP, NCPS

Leanne McCann offers support for stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions and intimacy-related concerns. She also helps with sleeping and eating problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career questions and coping with life changes. Leanne’s name appears here because she greets people with a calm, steady manner and a clear focus on practical steps.

Leanne works in an integrative way with a Person-Centred core. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people act in line with their values. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy techniques and attachment-based thinking are used when emotional regulation or relationship patterns are the focus.

Her style is straightforward and warm. Sessions aim to make difficult feelings easier to talk about and to build skills you can use outside the room. Leanne also uses narrative and solution-focused ideas to help people see their problems in new ways and find small, manageable changes.

Leanne has five years of experience supporting people through loss, trauma, identity questions and complex emotional issues. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which are listed as supplied. She works with adults and also has experience with children and young people according to her background.

To begin, readers are encouraged to use the site process to match with her and schedule a first session. The approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

Approaches to online work and how they help

Leanne uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can reduce avoidance and increase meaningful living. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at how early relationships shape current patterns and to develop new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and try methods that fit your situation. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as you learn what helps most.

The original biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, cut travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a schedule. It can also make some therapy tools easier to practise between sessions, since notes and exercises can be shared and reviewed during follow-up conversations.