David Lean

Welcome, and thank-you for taking the time to look at my profile.

A qualified and  experienced counsellor, who has also lived through a wide range of personal difficult life events, which I believe supports my client work, and allows greater understanding through-out our sessions together.  These include, family bereavement, redundancy, divorce, starting over and building a new life during your 40s, workplace bullying and childhood abuse, which have all significantly impacted greatly on my own life, affecting confidence, self esteem, trust and loss for many years.

As a friendly, dedicated and experienced professional, I will always ensure you feel welcome, safe and valued during our sessions together.

I offer face to face sessions from my rooms in Lea, Preston. Please note that I only work with clients over 18 years of age.

I currently have availability to take on new clients between 5.15pm & 8.00pm Monday to Friday.  I also have availability on Saturday mornings, 9.00am-1.00pm. 

Please note sessions are £50.

A professional counsellor who also has over 41 years of forward facing community work experience, with the last 6 years supporting clients one to one with mental health, anxiety and well-being concerns, on a daily basis.

During our sessions I will help you to explore your own feelings, emotions, beliefs, behaviours and views, so that you can become more self-aware and achieve greater independence, through talking, focus, challenge and reflection.

I will encourage you to bring your concerns to the sessions, the direction is led by you, at your pace. 

I will treat you as the expert, as nobody else understands exactly what it is like to be you.

I will not judge you under any circumstances. My commitment to you is that I will show empathy and remain real and honest whist sharing your journey with you.

We will develop a trusting relationship, which will allow you to open up in a therapeutic environment where you will feel safe to explore whatever you feel you wish to bring to each session.

I completely understand how difficult it is to first identify then open up to a complete stranger. I provide a warm, friendly and professional service within a safe space to assist you with this process.

Who is David?

A caring and dedicated, qualified counsellor with over 41 years of professional work life experience.

I have valuable experience of counselling work at Trust House Lancashire, a rape, sexual assault and abuse centre, supporting both male and female clients through a range of sexual trauma issues, suffered either as adults or during childhood. 

I also bring experience of counselling adults with a multitude of life issues in the Blackpool area, which affected Individuals mental well-being.

My professional experience has been served working within Fylde for two local community charities, and more recently as a social prescriber, all roles that are customer facing, through-out this period I gained vast and valuable experience of developing relationships while supporting adults through difficult personal situations. 

I have worked in a professional capacity with the National Police Chiefs Council, the NSPCC,as recently as the Summer of 2024, and have also spoken publicly both in England and Internationally around the subject area of child abuse.

During our first session together, I will create a warm and friendly environment to enhance our work. 

We will discuss and complete our contract, then complete an assessment together, of your current thoughts and feelings. 

I will encouraging you to ask questions, to help you to feel more at ease before progressing with our future sessions together.