About Leah
Leah Pace is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience supporting people through tough life moments. She practices from Louisiana and brings a practical, straightforward style to therapy. Leah is warm and direct and aims to help clients reach clear, realistic goals.
Leah's background includes work across outpatient clinics, inpatient behavioral health, schools, group settings, crisis intervention, and long-term care. That range gives her experience with depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and relationship and family concerns.
How Leah works
She also assists people navigating parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, and major life changes. Her typical sessions focus on what the client wants to change. Leah uses tools from acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive behavioral work, and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and take steps that match their values.
She also draws on client-centered principles to keep the work practical and grounded in each person's priorities. Leah has experience addressing more specific areas such as abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver stress, codependency, domestic violence, and issues related to BDSM and kink culture. She also has experience with mood concerns including bipolar disorder and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
Therapy with Leah usually looks like focused conversations, step-by-step skill practice, and check-ins on progress. She helps people build new coping strategies and stronger communication habits. The aim is steady, manageable change that fits the client's life.
Leah lists 8 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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How Leah Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Leah often uses acceptance and commitment therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice new behaviors. CBT-style work typically involves homework and step-by-step skill practice to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leah will review your needs, goals, and preferences and help decide whether acceptance and commitment methods, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, or a combination will fit best. The process is collaborative and adapts as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls support face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat can suit quick, focused exchanges, and text-based messaging lets clients share between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and practice new skills in daily life.
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