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Leanne McCann, BACP, NCPS
- Credentials
- BACP, NCPS
- Experience
- 5 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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Leanne McCann helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression and relationship problems. She works with issues such as trauma and abuse, addictions, intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. Leanne is based in the United Kingdom and has five years of practice experience.
She holds BACP and NCPS credentials. Leanne offers a straightforward, warm approach. She creates a calm space to talk about what feels hard.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on making small, manageable changes that fit daily life. Her background is integrative with a person-centred core. That means conversations start from the person in front of her, with other methods brought in as useful.
She commonly uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Leanne also draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values, and attachment-informed thinking to understand relationship patterns. Dialectical and emotion-focused strategies are added when emotional regulation or intense feelings are present.
She has worked across a range of topics including parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image and communication problems. Leanne also supports people around adoption and foster care issues, ageing concerns, chronic illness and issues connected to kink and alternative sexual culture. The style is conversational and practical.
People can expect clear explanations, gentle challenge and steps to try between sessions. If someone wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions when suitable.
How Leanne's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy
Leanne commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while taking action that matches what matters to you, which can help with anxiety, low mood and problems with motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people change repeating interaction styles that cause distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to understand your goals and preferences, and then tailor methods that suit you. That might mean trying one approach for a while and adapting if something else seems more helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help fit therapy around work, caregiving and other commitments, and make it possible to access registered or accredited professionals regardless of location.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
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