About Leah
Leah Farah is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who offers virtual therapy across Florida. She sees adolescents and adults and focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and relationship stress. Leah aims to make the first steps feel doable and straightforward.
Her work centers on a client-centered approach that builds on each person's strengths. Leah combines techniques from attachment-based work, cognitive-behavioral methods, dialectical behavior ideas, and emotionally-focused therapy to fit individual needs.
How Leah works
She frames sessions around practical skills and clearer understanding rather than jargon. Leah has six years of experience in a mix of settings. She has provided individual and family therapy, plus case management, in community mental health and school environments.
That range helps her spot useful next steps for people in different life situations. She supports people coping with trauma, grief, parenting pressures, and major life changes. Leah also addresses issues like eating and sleeping problems, chronic illness, body image, and compassion fatigue.
She works with concerns connected to attachment, communication, blended family stress, and codependency. Leah believes clients are the experts on their lives and treats therapy as a collaborative process. Together she and the client set goals and try out strategies that fit day-to-day life.
Her aim is to help people feel heard, more capable, and better able to handle the next steps.
Leah lists 12 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Leah draws on attachment-based work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps people understand trust, closeness, and repeating cycles in relationships. She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood swings. Finding the right approach is part of the process. Leah works collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals and preferences. She discusses options, tries strategies together, and adjusts the plan as progress and needs change. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people meet face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferable. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief support between sessions or when shorter, flexible touchpoints help maintain momentum.Start online instead of waiting
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