About Leva
Leva Talton is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship strains. She offers steady, nonjudgmental support and practical tools for coping with mood changes, grief, parenting strain, and addiction concerns. Her approach is direct and warm, aimed at helping families and individuals find clearer footing during hard times.
Leva brings eight years of clinical experience and a background in psychology and social work.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward methods like mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and acceptance-based strategies to help people spot unhelpful patterns and try new ways of responding. Sessions focus on small, achievable steps rather than big promises. In the room she centers the person’s goals and preferences.
People set clear, agreed-on objectives and work at a pace that fits their life. Leva emphasizes practical skills such as emotion regulation, communication strategies, and values-based action to support change between sessions. She also attends to complex situations like trauma, co-occurring conditions, caregiving stress, and blended family challenges.
When needed, therapy blends methods - for example using emotion-focused work to repair relationships alongside behavioral tools to reduce anxiety symptoms. Leva works with adults on a range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue.
Her style remains collaborative: she helps clients put together a plan and checks in often to make sure it still fits their needs.
How Leva’s Approaches Work Online
Leva combines acceptance-based work and cognitive-behavioral techniques in sessions that aim to change what gets in the way of daily functioning. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values and take small steps toward them even when distressing thoughts or feelings are present. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and adjust methods based on what feels most useful. Clients and therapist check progress regularly and pick tools that fit the person’s life and rhythm.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video sessions work well for more intensive skill-building and emotion work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter updates, brief coaching, or staying connected between longer appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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