Lesley Parfitt

Lesley Parfitt is a psychotherapeutic counsellor and psychotherapist who focuses on eating and food-related issues alongside stress and anxiety. She holds NCPS and brings five years of clinical practice in the United Kingdom. Lesley describes her work as depth oriented while drawing on a range of approaches to fit individual needs.

Her practice combines psychodynamic thinking with humanistic and Jungian ideas. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques where they help people change unhelpful patterns. Sessions often explore early attachments and current relationships to understand how they shape feelings about food, body image and control.

Lesley uses creative and body-aware methods when appropriate, including hypnotherapy and breathwork-informed practices. She also integrates somatic experiencing and Gestalt ideas to help people notice the body sensations that accompany stress or trauma. This can be useful for those dealing with panic, post-traumatic stress or ongoing anxiety.

She supports people working through guilt, shame, self-esteem and life purpose concerns. Lesley mentions work around divorce, forgiveness and the emotional fallout of major life changes. Her approach aims to help people understand patterns and make changes that feel manageable in day-to-day life.

Outside of one-to-one therapy she runs women’s circles and offers yoga and breathwork facilitation geared towards trauma and menopause. Prospective clients can expect a collaborative conversation about goals, practical steps and which combination of methods might suit them best.

How Lesley adapts therapeutic approaches to online work

Lesley draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach helps people understand why they respond to stress or intimacy in certain ways and is often used with relationship, attachment and self-esteem concerns.

She also uses client-centred principles, offering a non-judgemental space where the person's experience guides the session. This helps when someone needs to talk through feelings about eating, guilt or life purpose at their own pace.

Finding the best approach is treated as a collaborative process. Lesley will talk with each person about their difficulties, goals and what feels helpful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan over time so the work matches preferences and real-life demands.

Please confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy around busy days, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also make it simpler to continue therapeutic momentum while travelling or living abroad, and it lets the focus remain on practical tools, breathwork and conversational depth without requiring extra commitments.