Lea Kendall, NCPS

Lea Kendall works from a client-centred approach that puts the person at the heart of each session. She combines practical tools with reflective conversation to help people untangle anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and life changes. Lea’s style aims to be warm and calm while helping people make small, steady shifts.

Lea has 12 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns including depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people with parenting strains, sleeping problems, career questions and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.

Her practice uses elements of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, mindfulness and solution-focused ways of working alongside a client-centred foundation. Sessions typically balance talking, practical exercises and simple mindfulness techniques so people can try things between meetings. Lea explains approaches in plain language and sets goals together with each person.

She works online from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. Lea holds the NCPS credential and draws on over a decade of direct experience to support people through transitions and recovery. Her manner is steady and collaborative, aiming to make therapy feel manageable for people under strain.

Lea encourages a paced approach to change, focusing on what feels doable now. She helps people notice patterns, build coping skills and reconnect with a sense of purpose and direction.

How Lea’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the centre of each session, so online meetings focus on listening, understanding and following what matters most to the client. This approach helps with issues such as low self-esteem, grief and life transitions by building a trusting working relationship.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Online CBT can include short worksheets, behavioural experiments and homework to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and manage mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and shift difficult emotions and patterns, which is useful for relationship and intimacy-related struggles and for processing trauma.

Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt sessions over time. This is a collaborative process and changes can be made as needs evolve.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and some exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflection and short updates. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and fit around work, caregiving and day-to-day life.