Mr.
Leigh Manning
MA MBACP
Online psychotherapist offering individual & couples counselling & psychotherapy across the UK
am a fully qualified UK BACP registered psychotherapist, educated to MA level. Originally based in Nottingham, I now work exclusively online, seeing clients across the UK and internationally. I have over 18 years experience working with a range of problems in living including abandonment, addiction, anxiety, bereavement, depression, complex trauma, PTSD, relationship problems, and victims/perpetrators of abuse. I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.
Availability confirmed 6 days ago
About me and my practice
believe that our deepest yearnings are to grow and to form nurturing relationships. However, life is hard, and these natural tendencies can become compromised or inhibited through difficult experiences. We can even lose sight of them altogether and arrive at a profound sense of self-estrangement. When this happens life can feel at its most difficult. Nonetheless we try to keep going, somehow managing to meet all the external demands placed upon us, all the while feeling worse. The confidence that we need to stop, set boundaries, and make necessary changes eludes us. This way of trying to cope is understandable but seldom effective.
All human life takes place in the context of relationships (even when we're alone, we have relationships with others in our minds). Thus, as we can lose ourselves through difficult or abusive relationships, so we can find ourselves again through more accepting and nurturing ones. It has been my experience that the therapeutic relationship can facilitate lasting change and growth. It does so by offering a client certain conditions - empathy, acceptance, and genuineness. These conditions are essential to therapy, as it is through them that a person begins to feel safe enough to explore difficult thoughts, feelings and memories that may hitherto have been denied or suppressed.
As things currently stand in the UK and elsewhere, clients seeking help from a GP or Psychiatrist for mental health difficulties are likely to be diagnosed with a psychological disorder. I have worked with clients with an array of clinical diagnoses, including Depression, Anxiety Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Such terms mean different things to different people. It is my own view that these labels denote highly complex and practiced ways of relating to the self and others - ways of being that are always, on some level, rooted in the perceived need to defend or protect the self.
Qualifications
MA (Distinction) in Person-Centred & Experiential Counselling & Psychotherapy - University of Nottingham
BA (1st Class Honours) in Counselling & Philosophy - Newman University, Birmingham
Grad. Cert. in Integrative Psychotherapy - Newman University, Birmingham
Professional Membership
MBACP
Professional Register
British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Verified by Counsellingo on Sunday, 15 February 2026
Fees
50 minute Zoom session (Individual) - £60
50 minute Zoom session (couples) - £80
Therapeutic Approach
Humanistic, Person-centred, Existential, Psychodynamic
Video Platforms
Zoom
Area
Nottingham
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