Sarah Leppard, BACP

Sarah Leppard is a counsellor with five years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Sarah aims to make the first steps towards change feel manageable and respectful. She focuses on stress, anxiety and low self-esteem, and on practical problems like career difficulties and coping with life changes. Sarah also helps people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns and relationship strain. She offers support for eating and sleeping difficulties, anger and depression, and for people exploring intimacy-related issues and ADHD. Her practice pays attention to family-related stresses, including blended family issues, fatherhood concerns and parenting strain, while also addressing problems tied to chronic illness, cancer, fertility and caregiver burden. She will also work with people facing separation, domestic violence, abandonment feelings, dissociation and deep guilt or shame. Sarah draws on client-centred, narrative, psychodynamic and solution-focused approaches. That means she listens closely, helps you make sense of your story, looks at patterns from the past, and also sets clear goals for change. Sessions are shaped around what each person finds most useful. People can expect a calm and respectful tone. Sarah tailors conversations to individual needs and preferences. She aims to support and empower people as they explore choices and build coping skills.

How Sarah's approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening with warmth and respect. The counsellor follows the person's lead, offering empathy and reflection so people feel understood and can find their own solutions. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems by looking at the stories they tell about their lives, which can be useful for anxiety, low self-esteem and relationship issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Sarah will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and then try methods that fit. That means sessions may draw on listening and reflection, story-based techniques or short-term goal work depending on what helps you most.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you keep visual contact and read expressions, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth or screen time is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit counselling around work, caring responsibilities and everyday life.