About Leora
Leora Mirkin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, mood struggles, and relationship concerns. She focuses on helping clients build confidence, handle difficult emotions, and make practical changes that fit their lives. Leora writes in a direct, calm way and aims to make therapy feel approachable and useful.
Leora offers a steady, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about identity, boundaries, and stressful life changes.
Background and approach
She draws on nine years of clinical experience in Wisconsin to guide conversations toward clear goals. Sessions tend to be relaxed but focused on real steps the client can use between meetings. Her work often addresses anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, trauma, body image, and gender dysphoria.
She also helps with communication problems, codependency, and issues tied to chronic illness or caregiving strain. Leora pays attention to how attachment and past relationships shape current patterns. Clinically, she uses practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness, and also incorporates acceptance and commitment ideas and skills from dialectical behavior approaches when helpful.
Leora centers the client’s values and priorities when choosing techniques. Leora emphasizes clear communication about response times and how therapy will be structured. She typically responds to messages at least once per weekday.
People seeking a steady, empathetic clinician for anxiety and life transitions may find her straightforward style helpful.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online work
Leora uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT can help with anxiety, obsessive thoughts, and mood challenges by breaking big problems into manageable steps.She also uses acceptance and commitment therapy which focuses on noticing difficult feelings without getting stuck and moving toward what matters most. ACT can be useful for managing anxiety, stress, and life transitions by building action around personal values.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Leora works with each person to pick methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adapts exercises so they fit into the client’s routine and checks in about what is and isn’t helpful.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you work face to face when needed, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people access care around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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