Lesley Parfitt

Lesley Parfitt is a psychotherapeutic counsellor and psychotherapist registered with NCPS and has five years' clinical experience in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, eating concerns and self-esteem issues. Lesley also lists life purpose among her focus areas and helps people who are questioning direction after a big change.

Lesley draws on several therapeutic traditions rather than a single model. Her practice often uses attachment-based thinking to understand how early bonds affect present relationships. She also uses client-centred ideas to keep the conversation grounded in the person's own priorities. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when a person and Lesley want practical tools for managing thoughts and feelings.

Sessions tend to be depth oriented while remaining flexible. That means she pays attention to patterns that repeat across relationships and to feelings that sit beneath day-to-day worries. At the same time, she will offer practical steps and coping strategies when they help in the moment.

People typically come to Lesley for help with body image, control issues, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports those working on self-love, forgiveness and mood difficulties. Her combination of approaches is meant to match the work to the person rather than force a single method.

Lesley works in English and accepts international clients. Her practice also mentions hypnotherapy and existential and Jungian ideas as part of the wider toolkit she may draw on to support people exploring what matters next.

How Lesley applies therapeutic approaches online

Lesley commonly uses attachment-based ideas and client-centred methods in her work. Attachment-based work looks at early relationship patterns and shows how they can shape current interactions and emotional responses. Client-centred work focuses on the person's priorities and pace, placing their experience at the centre of each session.

She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques when a clearer plan or skill-building is needed. CBT offers practical strategies to identify and adjust unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, which can help with anxiety, panic and mood concerns. These approaches can be combined to address both deeper relational patterns and immediate coping needs.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Lesley will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, and then adapt the approach collaboratively. That way the method evolves from the client's needs rather than being imposed.

The biography does not specify session formats, so confirm the current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life, reduce travel and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a person's schedule. They also allow people who live further away to work with a therapist practising in the United Kingdom or with international clients.