Leigh Cooper, BACP

Leigh Cooper is a person-centred counsellor based in the United Kingdom who brings seven years of clinical experience supporting people through a wide range of life difficulties. She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, grief, career challenges, self-esteem struggles, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Her practice also attends to specific areas such as abandonment and attachment issues, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, commitment and control issues, feelings of emptiness, fatherhood concerns, forgiveness, and guilt and shame.

Her interest in counselling grew from her own experience with therapy, which highlighted the value of genuine acceptance, empathy, and a consistent supportive space. That personal journey informed her decision to train professionally and to focus on creating a warm, respectful, and sometimes challenging environment where clients can explore the matters that feel most important to them. Leigh describes counselling as a collaborative relationship in which listening without judgement helps people make sense of feelings and find ways forward.

Leigh holds a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling awarded by CPCAB, and she is an accredited member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She maintains ongoing professional development and has completed training including autism and ADHD awareness, work with sexual violence, psychosexual therapy introduction, and modules addressing personality disorder and relationship work. She provides both short-term and long-term therapy and has extensive experience supporting people affected by addiction, self-harm, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

Leigh aims to offer each person a supportive space to explore feelings and make changes at their own pace. She is not currently accepting clients.