About Leah
Leah Finn is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings eight years of clinical experience to sessions and draws on a background in community organizing and anti-oppression work. Leah aims to help people manage stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns.
Leah offers a warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental style. Sessions focus on building on strengths and developing practical coping skills. She pays close attention to how race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability shape a person’s life.
How Leah works
Her approach mixes attachment-based work with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral techniques. Leah also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and existential ideas when they fit a person’s goals. She adapts methods to what actually helps someone in day-to-day life.
Leah has experience addressing trauma, emotional abuse, and the effects of chronic illness or disability. She also works with concerns around body image, sexual expression including kink and alternative culture, and caregiver stress. Practical tools and real-world strategies are part of the process.
Leah trained at the master’s level in counseling psychology and practices under California law as an LMFT. Her prior work in community organizing informs a commitment to social justice and culturally aware care. She aims to tailor sessions to each person’s needs and values.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Leah’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Leah blends attachment-based ideas and client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral techniques. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating. Client-centered work focuses on being heard and understood while the therapist follows the person’s lead. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, mood, and sleep.Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. Leah will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which approach or combination feels most useful and adjust over time based on progress and feedback.
Online sessions make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick reflections, homework check-ins, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit counseling into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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