About Leah
Leah Petrucci is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years in mental health and social work. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction recovery support, relationship strain, grief, and stress. Leah also supports concerns around intimacy, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, eating issues, and compassion fatigue.
Leah draws on a range of practical approaches rather than a single method. She works with each person to set clear treatment goals and adjusts methods to fit their needs.
How Leah works
Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and addressing patterns that get in the way of daily life. Her background includes work across many organizations and settings, which shaped a flexible, experience-based style.
Leah supports people who are in recovery once they have completed detox or an inpatient/outpatient program, and she has experience supporting those using medication assisted therapy for opioid dependency. She also understands 12 Step programs and may suggest them as added support. Leah integrates mind, body, spirit, and relationships into care when clients want that approach.
She incorporates clients' spiritual beliefs only to the degree they prefer. The focus remains on building a trusting working relationship and practical steps toward change. Leah practices in Florida as a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor.
She aims for straightforward, compassionate sessions that tackle problems one step at a time.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Leah uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships affect current patterns. That approach helps people who struggle with trust, fear of abandonment, or repeated relationship problems. Client-Centered Therapy is another key part of her work and centers on listening and responding to each person's needs without judgment. It helps people feel heard and build their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leah will talk with each client about goals, history, and preferences, then choose or combine methods that fit. This is a collaborative process so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life while working toward steady, practical improvements.
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