About Leann
Leann Buffmyer is a licensed master social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, eating concerns, and LGBT-related worries. She aims to create a calm space where someone can talk through fears, shame, or body-image worries without judgment. Leann uses straightforward, compassionate language and focuses on practical next steps people can try between sessions.
Leann draws on several therapy methods to match each person's needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to help people clarify values and take action even when feelings are hard. She also uses client-centered work to listen deeply and DBT skills for emotion regulation when impulsivity or panic gets in the way. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, realistic changes.
Conversations include skill practice, real-life homework, and checking what does or does not help. Leann pays attention to family dynamics and attachment patterns when family stress or blended family situations are part of the problem. She brings three years of social work experience and holds an LMSW credential.
Leann practices from Michigan and offers sessions in English. Her work is practical, steady, and aimed at helping people regain daily functioning and reduce frequent worry. Leann encourages people to reach out when anxiety, panic, compulsive eating, or low mood interfere with life.
The first steps are to identify current priorities, try a few techniques, and adjust the plan as progress or obstacles appear.
How Leann's Approaches Work Online
Leann often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while still taking steps toward what matters to them. ACT is useful for anxiety, panic, and struggles around motivation. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments that change behavior and mood.Client-Centered Therapy is part of her approach as well, which means sessions include reflective listening and support so people feel heard. Leann treats finding the right mix of methods as a collaborative process. She will work with each person to test techniques, check what helps, and adapt strategies based on goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth sessions and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a quick check-in or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text are useful for short contacts, skill coaching between sessions, and people who prefer writing. These options aim to make care easier to fit into a busy life and to support steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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