MBACP Melania Leanza Counselling BN1

13/04/2026

I don’t just offer techniques—I offer presence.
Integrative counselling grounded in real human connection.
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11/04/2026

Every time you open the door to the therapy room, your inner child smiles and whispers, “Thank you for coming back for me.”

Each time you show up to therapy, you are choosing to return to the parts of yourself that were once overlooked, unheard, or left alone. The “inner child” represents those early emotional experiences—your needs, wounds, and longings that may not have been fully met or understood at the time.

Coming back “for them” is an act of repair.
It’s you, as the adult, offering presence, curiosity, and compassion where there may once have been absence or confusion.

Therapy isn’t just about solving problems.
It’s about building a relationship with yourself

And over time, that consistency matters.
Because what heals isn’t just insight… it’s the experience of being met, again and again.
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26/01/2026

About Me”

I am an integrative counsellor and couple therapist, offering a warm, reflective, and confidential space for individuals and couples to explore emotional difficulties, relationship challenges, trauma, and life transitions. My approach is relational, compassionate, and grounded in psychological theory, with attention to how experiences are held in both mind and body.

Alongside counselling, I am also a qualified therapeutic and somatic massage practitioner. Massage is offered as a separate service, supporting physical tension, stress, and nervous system regulation through skilled therapeutic touch.
As a qualified massage therapist, I provide somatic and therapeutic bodywork to support both, mind and body,

While these modalities are kept distinct in practice, they share a holistic philosophy: supporting reconnection, balance, and wellbeing at emotional, relational, and embodied levels.

This logo represents integration, safety, and growth—because healing happens when mind and body are invited into the same conversation.

01/01/2026

The New Year does not arrive all at once.
It unfolds.

First comes the quiet turning inward—the season of wisdom. A time marked by subtlety rather than force, where growth begins not by adding more, but by releasing what no longer fits. Old patterns soften and loosen their grip. Habits shaped by fear, hesitation, or obligation are gently laid down. This is not an ending, but a clearing—an intentional pause that creates space for what’s next.

From this foundation, a new energy rises.

2026 carries a different current. It moves with momentum. Where before there was reflection, now there is courage. Where there was observation, now there is action. This is a year that asks not for perfection, but for presence—for stepping forward even when the path is still forming beneath your feet.

Courage in this season is not loud or reckless. It is inspired. It is the willingness to trust what you’ve learned, to act on the wisdom already earned, and to move with purpose rather than urgency. Decisions become clearer. Energy aligns with intention. Forward motion feels less like force and more like flow.

This New Year invites a new perspective:
Release, then rise.
Reflect, then act.
Carry wisdom in one hand and courage in the other.

What begins now is not a rush toward the future, but a confident walk into it—grounded, awake, and ready.

31/12/2025

Discipline is self-love in action. It’s choosing long-term well-being over short-term comfort, even when it’s hard. Self-love gives you the reason; discipline turns it into consistent action through boundaries, structure, and self-respect. By showing up for yourself and aligning your choices with your highest values, you prove you are worthy of care.

19/01/2025

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Melania Leanza Counselling offers you the chance to explore your thoughts and feelings in a non-judgemental environment. The work is based on a therapeutic relationship and a nurturing approach which creates a strong foundation of mutual trust. Get in contact to discuss therapy and raise any of your...

02/01/2025

Today someone shared this with me

“Imagine if a shark bit you and instead of swimming to shore to save and heal yourself, you search for the shark to understand why it bit you or to tell him that you didn’t deserve it.”

Would you do it?
Probably not. However, many times, you get stuck in a situation where someone hurts you and you find it difficult to let go of the pain and the hanger. You fight to show who hurts you, that you did not deserve it.
Anger and hurt can cloud the right path to follow. You don’t have to explain anything to “the shark”, stop looking for it and heal yourself.

Counselling can help you to clean the path for you to walk in the right direction of self-healing.

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01/01/2025

I wish you the courage to betray everything that chains you to a life that doesn’t belong to you. Betrayal is not a vile act, but a sacred act when what you betray is a lie. You betray the fear that tells you who you have to be, you betray the expectations of those who have never really looked into your eyes, and you betray the script that they put in your hand without asking if it was yours.

I wish you to face your pain, because that is where you will find the keys to your freedom. Dig where it hurts the most, and you will discover that that pain is not your enemy, but a fierce and loving teacher.

I wish you would stop looking for confirmation, stop asking permission, stop waiting.

When everything else collapses, only your truth remains. Hold on to that, and let it guide you. It won’t be easy, but it will be true. And the truth, even when it’s scary, is the only path to freedom.

I wish you would never settle, never stop, never lower your gaze in front of your greatness. You are here to live, not to survive.
Time to go now.

2025 Happy New Cycle

03/07/2024

The relationship mind-body is a connection in which the mind influences the body, and the body influences the mind.

In fact, healthy thoughts may lead to the release of feel-good neurotransmitters - such as serotonin and dopamine; in the same way, when we experience either positive or negative physical sensations our mind can be affected by it. A simple example could be how a headache might affect our mood.
In fact, headache for example, could make you feel stressed . When faced with stressors, the brain perceives a threat and activates the fight-or-flight response.
Our body will respond with faster heartbeats, accelerated breathing, muscle tightening, and elevated cortisol levels. If stress is not dealt with, can result in chronic stress and may lead to physical issues such as digestive problems, fatigue, muscle aches and headaches, and high blood pressure.

Think of yourself as a whole; body and mind.
If the mind is healthy, the body will respond positively.

Simply verbalising your pain, can help you realise the stress.
Counselling can help you navigate through your experience with professional help.
Help your mind to help your body 🌺
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21/06/2024

“Hi, I wanted to tell you that I arrived.

The journey was difficult with many curves and steep climbs. I feared more than once that my heart would slide down some cliff.
But with sweaty hands and eyes always a little wet, I arrived.
I am in that place I told you about, the place where emotions spread when they come into contact with the air. A remote and far away place; luckily I told you everything before leaving, it would have hurt me to leave without telling you about my love.

Unfortunately, I must have lost something of myself during the journey because in this place where you are no longer there, it is difficult to breathe, I have the feeling that there is not enough oxygen to survive.
However, they warned me, that once there, I would have to get used to breathing again!
Now I understand what they meant.
I did this journey holding my breath, you cannot go from extreme love to this without holding your breath.

Okay, I have to go now.
I need to learn how to breathe again.”

-M.L.-
MBACP Melania Leanza Counselling BN1

12/06/2024

Your greatest victory is not having turned into the pain that was inflicted on you. 🌼🌻

-M. L. -

Melania Leanza Counselling BN1

Sometimes we get stuck in situations where we are not able to see our true selves anymore.

You are not your pain and anger. Do not turn into it.
Stay the beautiful person you are. 🌺

02/06/2024

Toxic behaviour can really confuse you and make you feel it’s your fault.

Gaslighting

Denying that something event took place, even if there is evidence to prove it. Lying and contradicting what the victim knows to be true. Making the victim feel like they are crazy or overreacting. Making the victim doubt their memory and perception.

Manipulation

Manipulation is the exercise of harmful influence over others. People who manipulate others attack their mental and emotional sides to get what they want. The person doing the manipulation, called the manipulator, seeks to create an imbalance of power.

Blaming

To blame someone for something is to hold them responsible for something negative that happened.
(Stop crying! Stop overreacting, you always do that!”) -no responsibility from the other side -

Counselling can support you to navigate through toxic and damaging relationships. Can help restore clarity, rebalance reality and find self-esteem and self-love back.
You are not the person you see in your toxic relationship. Get out. Find yourself.
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