Natalie Leslie, BACP

Natalie Leslie is a BACP counsellor who works in a person-centred way to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief and life changes. She uses straightforward language and a calm approach to help people feel heard and understood. Her style aims to make it easier to talk about painful feelings and take small steps towards change.

She focuses on depression, coping with loss, parenting strains, relationship and family concerns, and issues such as low self-esteem and anger. Natalie also supports people facing chronic illness, cancer, fertility and end-of-life matters, and the loneliness that can come with major life transitions. She aims to match practical help to each person’s situation.

Natalie draws on person-centred work alongside emotionally focused methods to help people name and sit with intense feelings. That combination can be useful when anxiety or low mood feels overwhelming and when grief needs space to be processed. Her approach tends to emphasise listening, reflection and emotional connection rather than giving formulas or homework.

With three years of counselling experience, Natalie has worked in NHS talking therapies environments as well as in other settings. Her background includes work with people dealing with chronic pain, midlife change, caregiving stress and compassion fatigue. She uses that practical experience to offer grounded conversations.

People who choose her often want a respectful, non-judgemental space to explore what matters most. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then arrange sessions according to the therapist’s scheduling process.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on providing a warm, accepting atmosphere where the person’s own goals guide the work. It helps with low mood, stress, parenting strains and the emotional impact of health problems by offering steady, empathic listening. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people tune into feelings and the patterns behind them, which can be useful for grief, relationship pain and emotional overwhelm.

Finding the right approach is part of the first conversations. The therapist will work together with each person to decide whether a person-centred emphasis, more emotionally focused sessions, or a blend suits the presenting needs and goals. That decision is reviewed as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant.

Please confirm the available session formats before booking as they are not specified here. Online therapy can make fitting sessions into a busy life easier by reducing travel time and allowing appointments around work or caregiving. It also offers practical flexibility such as shorter check-ins or sessions without video when that better fits someone’s day or bandwidth. Registered or accredited professionals can help tailor the pace and length of sessions to match what works best for the individual.