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Leah Murphy, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 21 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseGriefDepression
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Leah Murphy helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports those facing depression, low self-esteem, anger, eating or sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, career challenges, and challenges linked to ADHD and bipolar conditions. Leah uses plain language and a steady approach so people know what to expect from sessions.
She creates a calm space where clients can speak openly about thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Leah listens without judgement and focuses on what matters most to each person. She encourages practical steps as well as reflection so change can start between sessions. Leah draws on client-centred work to keep the person's experience central.
She also uses cognitive behavioural approaches to help identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. For people affected by strong emotions or intense reactions she adds dialectical behaviour ideas and trauma-focused tools when needed. With 21 years of experience she has supported many people through big life changes, loss, and complex stress.
Her British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy registration is noted as BACP. This reflects her ongoing professional practice in the United Kingdom. Sessions can focus on short-term goals like managing panic, or longer work such as processing trauma or rebuilding self-esteem.
Leah aims to make the process clear and practical, so people leave each session with something useful to try. She works with English-speaking clients and accepts international clients. People interested in starting are invited to take the first step and begin a simple matching and booking process.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Leah combines client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy to help people make practical changes. Client-centred therapy means the person’s experience guides the work and sessions focus on what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and teaches skills to reduce anxiety and manage mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process and is decided together. Leah will talk through goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then choose or adapt methods to fit each person's needs. This collaborative approach means techniques can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give choice and flexibility. Video calls work well for face-to-face style conversations, phone sessions suit quieter audio check-ins or lower bandwidth, chat can be used for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing short contact between live sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and access support from different locations.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
Contacting Leah
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