About Lea
Lea Cattan is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She brings 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, intimacy-related concerns, parenting strains, and career challenges. Lea approaches therapy believing each person knows their own story best.
She looks for strengths clients can use when facing hard moments. Beginning therapy is often difficult, and she acknowledges the courage it takes to start. Her work focuses on practical conversations about feelings and relationships.
Background and approach
She helps people talk through patterns that get in the way of connection and day-to-day functioning. Sessions aim to make coping skills more usable in real life. Lea uses client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person.
She also draws from emotionally-focused therapy to address attachment and intimacy issues. Together these approaches guide conversations about emotion, safety, and repair. She has supported people through life transitions, adoption and foster care concerns, aging and caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and relationship breakups.
Lea also assists with body image, codependency, communication problems, and commitment worries. Sessions are offered in English and Russian. Lea works with people who want clear, compassionate support to face anxiety and move toward healthier routines and relationships.
Approach and online options for emotional work
Lea uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's priorities and strengths. This approach means conversations follow what matters most to the client, helping them name goals and use their own resources to reach them. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and shift patterns in close relationships by working directly with emotions and attachment needs; it is often used for intimacy-related concerns and repair after conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Lea will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That process may include trying an approach and adjusting it as the work unfolds so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for straightforward check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are good for brief check-ins, tracking progress between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling simpler and let people fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Russian
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