Lesley Nance, NCPS

Lesley Nance helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, relationship strain and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with family tensions and specific concerns like abandonment, body image and caregiver stress. Lesley introduces practical steps so clients can begin to feel different quickly. Her approach is warm and grounded, with a focus on workable change.

Lesley is listed with NCPS, which is noted after her name. She brings nine years of direct experience to sessions. Her style blends talk-based work with body-focused and expressive methods so people can find what fits them.

She uses a range of approaches including client-centred listening, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, hypnotherapy, mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. EMDR is offered for people who have stuck reactions to past events and want another route to relief. Mindfulness and hypnotherapy are used to calm racing thoughts and build new ways of responding.

Sessions are paced to each person. Lesley combines gentle challenge with practical tools for managing emotions and improving communication. She helps people notice patterns, try out different responses and build steady change over time.

The work aims to reconnect people with their own resilience. Lesley offers a structured, compassionate space where clients can talk, practise new skills and take manageable steps toward feeling more in control and more hopeful.

How Lesley’s approaches translate to online therapy

Lesley draws on client-centred work, EMDR and mindfulness to help people process strong emotions and build new ways of coping. Client-centred therapy focuses on active listening and reflecting so a person feels heard and can find their own solutions; it helps with relationship strain, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. EMDR is a method that can help people who have stuck reactions to past events by working with eye movements or other bilateral stimulation to reduce emotional charge. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to calm racing thoughts and improve emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lesley will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and will suggest which methods to try first. The choice is collaborative and can change as the work progresses.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and interactive exercises, phone work can be handy when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging allows ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and distance from practitioners, while keeping the focus on practical progress.