About Leah
Leah D'agostino is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing addiction, grief, relationship strain, low self-esteem, bipolar mood shifts, and major life changes. Her style is calm and direct.
She focuses on practical steps that fit into everyday life. In the therapy room she listens first and helps clients name what matters most. She uses conversational, client-centered methods to build trust and clarity.
Background and approach
Sessions often include moments of skill practice, reflection, and planning for real-world situations. Leah draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help people accept difficult feelings while choosing values-based action.
Attachment-informed work helps when relationship patterns make emotional life harder. Her approach is practical and collaborative. Clients set goals together and try small experiments between sessions.
Leah supports people as they practice new ways of coping, managing urges, and improving communication. Leah works from Pennsylvania and holds the LCSW credential, which means she is a licensed clinical social worker. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online through several formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How Leah’s Approaches Work Online
Leah uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors in daily life. CBT is practical for anxiety, mood swings, and relationship patterns because it breaks problems into manageable steps.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which teaches people to notice painful feelings without being driven by them, and to act in line with their values. That approach can be useful for stress, addictions, and coping with life changes where avoidance has become a pattern.
Finding the right approach usually happens together. Leah talks with each person about goals, tries approaches that fit those goals, and adjusts based on what helps. The plan is collaborative and revisited over time.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual feedback. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share between sessions, check in after a difficult moment, or fit counseling into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while trying new skills in everyday settings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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