About Leah
Leah Isom is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida who focuses on anxiety, stress, depression, eating concerns, body image, trauma, and self-esteem. She speaks plainly and offers steady encouragement to people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. Leah aims to help clients notice small changes that make daily life easier.
Her sessions begin with listening. She helps people name what’s most troubling and sets simple, practical goals together. Leah combines a person-centered attitude with active techniques so sessions feel both warm and useful.
Background and approach
Leah uses evidence-informed tools like cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws on dialectical behavior skills to teach emotion regulation and mindfulness practices to build calm and focus. Somatic work may be used to help people notice how stress shows up in the body.
Leah describes therapy as collaborative. She works at the client’s pace and adapts methods to their needs. Sessions often include skill practice, grounded breathing, and real-life problem solving.
With three years of clinical experience, Leah supports people working through trauma, panic, obsessive thoughts, postpartum mood concerns, dissociation, and issues around guilt or shame. She also helps those facing isolation, impulsivity, and questions about life purpose. Her FL LMHC credential is listed as part of her professional background.
How Leah’s Approaches Fit Online Care
Leah blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on practical steps like testing worries and building new routines, which translate well to video or phone sessions. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication during sessions and between appointments.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Leah works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a client's needs and goals. She adjusts techniques over time and invites feedback so the plan evolves with the person's progress.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this kind of work. Video calls allow real-time interaction for skill practice and coaching. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions, share brief updates, or get coaching on a hard moment. These options increase flexibility and make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on anxiety, trauma-related symptoms, and emotional skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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