Leoni Cachia
MSc, PgDip, PgCert, AFHEA, BA
Truth be told, Holistic Care is all about you, but I understand if you want to get to know me better. I’m Leoni, (she, her/ they, them) an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist with the BABCP, working in the NHS, skater by day and stargazer by night. I encompass a 10 year career in mental health and education, complimented by a background in visual communications. I also work as a Network CBT Therapist for OneBright Efficacy and I co-facilitate for the Community Trauma Conference UK, delivering annual events every October. Check out my credentials and affiliations below.
I founded Leoni Cachia Holistic Care in 2019 due to my existing skill set utilising CBT informed coaching and mentoring. Alongside my clinical role,
I worked as a wellbeing lead with a team of 80+ clinicians for 2 years and I supervised practitioners in training which led me to develop my coaching specialism in self-care. In 2020 I completed specialist training to improve my competency for supporting clients living with long-term health conditions and I currently provide psychotherapy for individuals living with functional and organic neurological disorders, long-term health conditions, developmental disorders (such as autism) and neurodiversity’s (like ADHD).
Time passes us by
regardless of what we do with it.
How do you want to spend yours?
Growing up working class, experiencing adversity and social inequality fuelled my curiosity for the psyche as well as my passion for self-development, psychotherapy and social justice work. I believe that access to holistic healing is a necessity. Prioritising self-care, particularly emotional health, spirituality and physical wellbeing are acts of trans-generational liberation and civil disobedience. My working style is integrative, informed by practice and evidence-based psychological underpinnings, particularly CBT, third-wave interventions such as ACT, DBT, community psychology, life coaching, Reiki and the intersections of nature, eco-therapy and spiritual practice.
Gaining self-insight through talk therapies, coaching and complimentary therapies have personally helped me overcome first-generational issues, make better investment decisions, confront and overcome ruptures in relationships, change and pivot careers, prosper through loss, navigate existential, systemic and spiritual challenges and it also inspired me to curate my own independent practice whilst prioritising self-care. I can truly say, I don’t allow anything to hold me back. Consciously shaping the life I want, living intentionally, in alignment with my values. If you’re interested in making similar gains, book your free consultation!
"It has been two months since I completed my coaching sessions and my life is hugely different since starting this journey. Coaching was hard some days and it led to a major personal life change which I never foresaw. I feel more confident, more free, more open to what life has to offer. I have more self-recognition and appreciation for what I bring to the table personally and professionally."
CREDENTIALS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: EMDR Academy – Part 1 Certified, Part 3 Pending
Adult Safeguarding Level 3: NHS England – 2024
Functional Neurological Disorder: St George’s University of London – 2024
Cognitive Behavioural Chairwork: Matthew Pugh & Tobyn Bell CBT Reach – 2024
Cognitive Behavioural Couples Therapy for Relationships: Prof. Don Baucom & Dr Melanie Fischer CBT Reach – 2024
Behavioural Therapy for Tics: BTTI Advanced Online Course – 2024
CBT with Autistic Clients Workshop: Dr Valerie Gaus & Dr Lawrence Fung BMH – 2023
The Essentials Workshop; Personal Family & Community Constellations: Sonya Welch-Moring Nafsiyat – 2023
Emotion regulation in Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression: Dr Peter Pearce BMH – 2023
LGBTQ+ affirmative based CBT: Prof. Steven Safren BMH – 2023
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Prof. Willem Kuyken BMH – 2023
CBT for Adult ADHD: Prof. J Russell Ramsay BMH – 2023
Time Limited Schema Therapy: Dr Helen Startup & Janis Briedis BMH – 2023
Functional Neurological Disorder Masterclass: UCLH NHNN – 2022
CBT Postgraduate Diploma & Highest CBT Achiever:
University of Hertfordshire – 2022
Mindfulness: British Mindfulness Academy – 2022
Food as Medicine; Nutrition Science: Monash University – 2021
Counselling Diploma: CPD Courses – 2021
Long-Term Health Conditions: UCL – 2021
PWP Supervisor Training: UCL – 2021
Genograms: Rukiya Jermott AFT – 2021
Life Coaching Diploma: Achology – 2019
Low Intensity CBT Interventions: UCL – 2019
Tree of Life: Dr Julie Fraser SLAM – 2018
Associate Fellow: HEA – 2017
Okuden / Level 2 Reiki Practitioner: Miriam Stollar – 2016
MSc Psychology: Middlesex University – 2013
Mentoring & Mediation Training: Sova – 2013
AFFILIATIONS & FEATURES
