About Leah
Leah Petrucci is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida with 20 years in the mental health and social work field. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, relationship struggles, grief, and intimacy concerns. Her work also covers concerns like self-esteem, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and issues related to LGBT identity.
Leah meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps. She mixes discussion with body-centered awareness to address how emotions show up physically.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to surface patterns, teach coping skills, and build clearer communication in relationships. Her background includes long experience across clinical and community settings. That variety shaped a flexible style.
Leah combines cognitive tools, mindfulness, and skills from dialectical behavior approaches to help with emotional regulation and problem solving. She uses attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. That perspective helps when working through abandonment, attachment wounds, blended family stress, caregiving strain, or codependency.
Leah also supports people managing chronic pain, illness, or complex medical concerns alongside mental health challenges. Leah is a Florida LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor - and offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She can suggest community supports such as 12-step and recovery groups when helpful, and collaborates with other providers as needed.
Her goal is to create a practical plan that fits each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Leah blends approaches that focus on thoughts, relationships, and the body. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thinking and practice new coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and helps people build safer ways of relating. Somatic-informed work brings attention to bodily sensations and movement to calm nervous system responses and reduce the impact of trauma or chronic stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Leah will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they set goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what produces the most relief and progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to continue this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and somatic check-ins, while phone sessions suit those who prefer voice-only contact. Live chat and text messaging let people share brief updates, practice skills between sessions, or check in on difficult days. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and stay connected when in-person visits are not possible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English