Lesley Palm, BACP

Lesley Palm is a counsellor who offers a calm, person-led way of working. She welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction or big life changes and helps them move at a pace that feels right. Lesley holds BACP accreditation, which is shown as BACP, and brings four years of practice to her work.

She focuses on building a trusting relationship first. Sessions often begin with simple conversations about what is hardest right now and what the client hopes to change. Lesley uses life coaching and mindfulness skills alongside talking therapy to help people notice patterns and make small shifts.

Practical tools are mixed with reflective listening. That might include learning grounding exercises, spotting unhelpful thinking, or using motivational questions to find reasons to change. She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship difficulties, parenting strain, career worries and issues linked to identity such as LGBT concerns.

Lesley has experience supporting those facing addiction, obsessions and process-related problems like gambling or pornography. She also helps people struggling with anger, low self-esteem, depression and ADHD-related challenges. Later sessions can focus on planning next steps, relapse prevention or finding meaning after loss.

Sessions are available by video or phone and Lesley accepts international clients. She describes her role as walking alongside someone while they make changes, not directing them. The work aims to be steady, practical and rooted in what the person wants to achieve.

How her approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on a warm, non-judgemental relationship and follows what the person wants to talk about. It helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to clarify what matters to them.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and managing urges linked to addictions.

Motivational Interviewing uses curious, goal-focused questions to help people find their own reasons to change. It is often used when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about altering a habit.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lesley will discuss different ways of working and decide together which methods suit the client’s needs, goals and preferences. That collaboration guides how sessions are planned and what tools are introduced.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client keep visual contact for fuller interaction. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in without being on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide a way to share thoughts between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when in-person meetings are difficult.