About Leah
Leah D'agostino is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand the day-to-day problems that bring someone to therapy. Leah aims to make sessions feel calm and focused so people can take practical steps forward.
Leah uses a mix of approaches to fit individual needs. Sessions often include learning skills to manage strong emotions, gently looking at how relationships shape feelings, and practicing new ways of thinking that reduce automatic reactions.
How Leah works
She focuses on small, doable changes that add up over time. Her work also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, codependency, communication problems, caregiver stress, and substance use. Leah pays attention to how life transitions affect mood and coping, such as divorce, aging, or major loss.
She helps people make plans to handle those specific challenges. Leah describes herself as warm and direct in session. She encourages clear goals and checks progress regularly.
Therapy can include short-term skill-building or longer work on underlying patterns, depending on what a person wants. People who choose Leah typically want a practical approach grounded in empathy. She combines acceptance-based methods with cognitive and emotion-focused tools to help people regain steadiness and move toward the life they want.
Leah lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Leah works with
The areas below are the ones Leah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then move toward what matters most. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes where values and action matter. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, which helps when someone struggles with closeness, abandonment, or trust.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust over time based on what helps. Sessions may include learning specific skills, practicing new responses, or exploring relationship patterns depending on the plan you make together.
Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging for brief updates or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and to pick the format that feels most manageable for skill practice and emotional check-ins.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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