About Leigh
Leigh Ann Whitus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space so clients can talk about what matters most. Sessions are collaborative and focused on practical steps toward clearer goals.
Leigh Ann earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California and practices in Tennessee. Her six years of clinical experience inform a calm, steady approach.
Background and approach
She offers Christian counseling on request and attends to cultural background in sessions. Her work addresses trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and family-related strain. She also helps people dealing with grief, low self-esteem, feelings of emptiness, and problems with communication or attachment.
Sessions include concrete strategies for coping and pacing change. Leigh Ann blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance-based ideas. She also uses client-centered and dialectical behavior strategies to help people manage emotions and build skills.
The goal is to find approaches that fit each person’s needs and day-to-day life. In a first meeting she will ask what brought you in, listen for priorities, and start setting realistic goals. Follow-up work focuses on skill-building, improving coping, and making steady progress toward the changes you want.
How Leigh Ann’s Approaches Work Online
Leigh Ann draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based methods to help people manage anxiety and everyday stress. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm.She approaches therapy collaboratively, working with each person to shape a plan that fits their goals and life. Finding the right blend of methods is part of the early work, and she adjusts the approach based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation; phone can work when bandwidth is limited or a check-in is needed on the go. Live chat or messaging supports brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep using skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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