Leanne Glennon, BACP

Leanne Glennon is a BACP counsellor with 17 years of experience. She focuses on thoughts and everyday habits while helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief and parenting challenges. She aims to build a trusting relationship and works without judgement to support people through difficult times.

Her practice emphasises getting to know each person and the issues they want to work on. Leanne blends elements from trauma-focused work, trauma-informed care, TF-CBT and CBT with creative and emotion-focused techniques. She aims to match these methods to each person’s needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.

Leanne has significant experience supporting people who have experienced sexual abuse, complex bereavement and domestic abuse. She often uses a three-phase framework for trauma recovery that includes safety and stabilisation, remembrance and processing, and reconnection and integration. She explains how the brain and nervous system respond to trauma as part of that work.

She also has experience with self-harm and researched therapists’ experiences of working with self-harm for her MSc thesis. That background informs how she approaches risk and recovery discussions in sessions.

Throughout therapy Leanne treats the person as the expert in their own life. She works collaboratively to build insight, identify practical steps, and strengthen everyday habits that make life more manageable. Her style is supportive and frank, aiming to help people make steady changes at their own pace.

How trauma-focused and cognitive approaches work online

Leanne uses trauma-focused ideas alongside cognitive approaches to help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Trauma-focused work looks at how specific events have affected the brain and nervous system and follows phases such as stabilisation, processing and reconnection. Cognitive approaches like CBT help identify daily thinking patterns and build new, healthier routines and coping steps.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then suggest techniques to try. They adjust methods over time so the work fits the person rather than forcing a fixed plan.

Confirm which online session formats are offered before booking, as the biography does not specify formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins between face-to-face appointments, or help someone attend when their schedule varies. Therapists and registered or accredited professionals often find online sessions effective for talking therapies and skills-based work when they are matched to the person’s needs and circumstances.