Leonard Blake

Leonard Blake is a counsellor with five years' experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. He also supports those dealing with trauma, addiction, grief, intimacy concerns and self‑esteem problems. Leonard works in English and accepts clients from the United Kingdom and internationally.

He uses a practical, conversational style in sessions. He starts by getting to know how someone sees their world. That helps identify small changes that make daily life easier. He offers an existential starting point and works with counselling and psychoanalytic ideas to find what fits each person.

Leonard draws on several approaches depending on need. He uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. He applies cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try out different behaviours. Emotion-focused and dialectical ideas are available when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships are central.

Clients can expect a calm, exploratory process that balances listening with practical steps. Leonard aims to help people notice recurring patterns and practise alternatives between sessions. He talks things through plainly and helps set manageable goals.

His background includes work with national agencies and private practice clients. He holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. Leonard combines that experience with a straightforward, person-focused way of working to support change.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Leonard draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current reactions and patterns. This can help when people repeat difficult relational habits or feel stuck in their responses to others.

He also uses client‑centred ideas, which focus on listening and reflecting so clients can find their own solutions at their own pace. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used too, which involve spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavioural experiments to see different results.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Leonard will discuss these options with each person and decide together which ideas to use based on needs, goals and personal preference. The work is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the specific formats offered before booking, as the biography does not list them. Many people find online therapy helpful for fitting sessions into busy lives, reducing travel time, and making it easier to schedule around work or childcare. Some approaches, such as cognitive behavioural work or attachment conversations, translate well to remote formats and allow practice tasks between sessions to be reviewed during meetings.