Lea Kendall, NCPS

Lea Kendall is a counsellor with the NCPS credential and 12 years of clinical experience based in the United Kingdom. She creates a calm, collaborative space where people can talk through what feels stuck and begin to make changes. Lea aims to be warm and down-to-earth in sessions, helping clients feel less overwhelmed and more able to act.

Lea uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs rather than one fixed method. She draws on client-centred listening to build trust, cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful patterns, and mindfulness practices to slow things down. Sessions may include coaching-style tasks and practical self-awareness exercises to carry work beyond the session.

Her main focus areas include stress, anxiety, low self‑esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. Lea also supports people facing relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, addiction, sleeping problems, career stresses, and compassion fatigue. She lists midlife crisis and life purpose among the topics she helps people work through.

Lea has experience supporting people with ADHD and those navigating hormonal or identity shifts, including peri‑menopause and parenting pressures. She values working with neurodiverse clients and aims to adapt methods to suit different thinking styles and needs.

Outside therapy, Lea is involved in nature education and family life, and she often brings simple nature‑based or creative practices into sessions when they feel helpful. To start, clients are invited to complete the local platform’s matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How Lea’s approaches translate to online work

Lea combines client‑centred listening with cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness practices. Client‑centred therapy focuses on hearing a person fully and shaping sessions around their priorities, which helps people feel understood and more willing to try new steps. Cognitive behavioural approaches look at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and offer practical experiments to break unhelpful cycles. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve sleep and emotional steadiness.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Lea will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and try methods that suit their situation. Together they adjust the work over time so it stays useful and relevant.

The practical benefits of online counselling include fitting sessions into a busy week and keeping continuity while living in different places, since Lea accepts international clients. Online work can make it easier to try short check‑ins, experiment with mindfulness between meetings, or use coaching tasks that fit around parenting or work. Confirm the specific session options available before booking so arrangements match your routine and needs.