Online Therapy for Leeds - Counselling for Childhood Trauma, Relationship Difficulties and Anxiety
Leeds has no shortage of therapists.
A quick search returns hundreds of options — large practices, NHS referral pathways, low-cost charitable services, directories full of names and qualifications.
So the question is not whether you can find a therapist in Leeds.
It is whether you can find the right one.
You are in the right place.
What makes finding the right therapist difficult is not the number of options. It is that most therapy listings look the same: Confidential, non-judgmental, safe space, person-centred.
You have no real way of knowing, from a profile or a paragraph, how the person behind it will actually help — or whether you will spend months in sessions that feel like talking into a sympathetic void, leaving each week with exactly what you arrived with, just slightly more articulated.
I work differently.
I am warm — and I am active. I listen carefully, and then I do something with what I hear. I bring my own observations into the room. I ask the questions that are worth asking, not just the comfortable ones. I notice connections between things you have said, patterns across your story, feelings that are present but unnamed. I offer those observations — not as pronouncements, but as things worth exploring together.
My aim is that you leave every session with something real. Not just the relief of having been heard — though that matters — but a new way of seeing something, a connection you had not made, a question that shifts something. Something that did not exist when you sat down.
I specialise in depth work with adults navigating the long reach of early experience — childhood trauma, relational patterns that keep repeating, chronic anxiety, people-pleasing, attachment difficulties, and the complicated weight of difficult family dynamics. If you are looking for a therapist who will genuinely engage with the roots of what you are carrying — not just help you manage the surface of it — read on.
Why Online Therapy Works Well for Leeds
Leeds is a busy city. Commuting to a therapy appointment — finding parking, navigating traffic, arriving frazzled, leaving with forty-five minutes until the next thing — is not the ideal context for deep, unhurried therapeutic work.
Online therapy removes that entirely. You connect from wherever feels most private and comfortable — your home, your car before the school run, a quiet room at work. You do not lose the travel time. You do not carry the logistics. You simply show up.
And the quality of the work is not diminished by being online. The relational depth, the warmth, the attunement — none of that depends on being in the same room. Many clients find online therapy easier to settle into precisely because they are already in a space that feels familiar and safe.
Evening appointments are available — which matters if you work full-time, have children, or simply cannot fit daytime sessions around your life.
What I Specialise In
I work in depth with adults navigating:
Childhood trauma and its long-term effects — including the kind that does not look dramatic from the outside. Emotional neglect, conditional love, difficult family environments, growing up managing everyone else's feelings at the expense of your own. If your childhood seemed fine but something has always felt quietly wrong, this is often where the work begins.
Relational patterns — the relationship dynamics that keep repeating across different people and different contexts. The same anxiety, the same dynamic, the same ending — with someone new. Understanding where these patterns formed, and what it would take to relate differently, is some of the most meaningful work there is.
Attachment issues in relationships — anxious attachment, avoidant patterns, the push-pull of disorganised attachment. Understanding your attachment style is not about being labelled — it is about finally having a map for something that has felt like a mystery.
People-pleasing and low self-esteem — the exhaustion of putting everyone else first, of managing the room, of not quite knowing who you are when you stop performing. Usually rooted in early experience, and rarely addressed by surface-level techniques.
Anxiety rooted in childhood — chronic, unexplained anxiety that has been there as long as you can remember. Often connected to what was learned, very early, about whether the world is safe and whether other people can be relied upon.
Difficult family dynamics — the complicated love of families that are painful to navigate, or estranging yourself from, or trying to break the cycle with your own children.
How I Work
I am a BACP registered relational integrative therapist — which means I draw on a range of approaches rather than applying a single fixed method. Person-centred therapy, psychodynamic thinking, attachment theory, and trauma-informed practice all inform how I work, shaped entirely around the individual in front of me.
I am warm. I am also direct. I am not a therapist who simply reflects your words back at you and waits. My aim is that you leave every session with something real — a new way of seeing something, a connection you had not made before, a question worth sitting with.
This is not a tick-box process or a fixed programme. It is a relationship — built around you, at your pace, in service of where you want to go.
I also offer the Rewind Trauma Technique — a specialist trauma intervention that can bring significant relief in trauma and PTSD symptoms in one to three sessions, without requiring you to describe or relive the traumatic experience in detail. This is particularly useful for people who have tried talking therapies without resolution, or who simply do not want to go back through what happened in order to move forward from it.
Who I Work With
I work with adults only — eighteen and over, anywhere in the UK via online therapy.
My clients are often people who have thought about therapy for a long time before reaching out. People who are high-functioning and capable on the surface, and who carry something quietly underneath that logic and willpower have not been able to shift. People who have maybe tried therapy before and found it did not quite get to the root of it.
They are not in acute crisis. They are in a persistent, draining relationship with something — anxiety, patterns, self-doubt, the weight of their history — and they are ready to actually understand it rather than just manage it.
If that sounds like you, we are probably a good fit.
About Me
I am Mina Murat Baldwin — a BACP registered integrative psychotherapist based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, offering online therapy to adults across the UK including Leeds, Bradford, York, Wakefield and the wider West and North Yorkshire area.
I trained at Leeds Beckett University and hold an MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology alongside my Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy. Before private practice I worked in the NHS as a Senior Practitioner in Talking Therapies services and delivered CBT based sessions. I also have published peer-reviewed academic research on childhood maltreatment and its long-term effects, and another research on autism.
I understand the issues I work with at a research level, a clinical level, and a deeply human level. That combination is what I bring to every session.
Fees and Availability
Online therapy sessions are £70 for a 50-minute session, payable by bank transfer in advance.
The Rewind Trauma therapy sessions are also available at £95 per 50-minute session -lease get in touch to discuss more.
Evening appointments are available on weekdays. I would suggest a free 15-minute consultation call before booking — it is a chance to talk, ask anything you need to, and get a sense of whether working together feels right.
Ready to Get Started?
If you are based in Leeds and looking for online therapy that goes beyond symptom management — that works with where things actually come from — I would encourage you to get in touch. If you have questions first, you are welcome to email me directly at mail@counsellingwithmina.com