Michael Leunig, BACP

Michael Leunig is a BACP counsellor and psychotherapist with six years' experience based in the United Kingdom. He lists stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, depression, addictions, family and grief among the concerns he addresses. Michael also notes work around career changes, coping with life transitions and coaching in his practice.

He grew up in Germany and moved frequently as a child, an experience he says influenced his interest in therapy. He trained at Salford University in counselling and psychotherapy and later studied clinical hypnotherapy. Michael has worked with the mental health charity Mind and with emergency services through a Blue Lights scheme supporting police, firefighters and ICU nurses.

His background includes delivering mindfulness training and teaching clinical hypnotherapy courses. He reports using an integrative approach that draws on Client-Centred methods, mindfulness, hypnotherapy and solution-focused techniques among other practices. Michael says he emphasises practical steps to help people move forward from things that feel stuck, such as grief, childhood trauma or separation.

Michael has experience in NHS surgeries across the north of England, using solution-focused work with patients, and he currently practises privately. He also describes roles as a mind coach for a rugby team and teaching mindfulness to other therapists. He works in English and German.

He asks people to consider what they want to change and offers collaboration to find the best way forward. To begin, readers are invited to use the service's matching process to book an initial session and discuss goals and practical steps.

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