About Leah
Leah Isom is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, eating and body-image concerns, trauma, and low self-esteem. She presents as a calm and encouraging clinician who draws on practical tools and steady support. Leah creates a space where people can speak openly and feel heard.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps that build confidence. She uses straightforward feedback and simple exercises people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. Leah blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and emotional regulation. She also uses mindfulness and somatic strategies when bodies hold stress or trauma responses.
In session she helps clients name unhelpful patterns, test new ways of coping, and practice skills for handling panic, compulsions, or urges to harm. For eating and body-image concerns she works on the thoughts and feelings that drive behaviors and on building self-compassion. Leah has three years of clinical experience as an LMHC in Florida.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are in English and follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is based on therapist availability.
Approaches for online healing and skill building
Leah often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-focused, which can help with anxiety, panic, compulsions, and depressive thinking.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT offers concrete tools for handling intense feelings, impulsivity, and urges to self-harm.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leah treats the selection of techniques as collaborative and adjusts methods to match each person’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text let people check in between meetings or keep a shorter rhythm. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, childcare, or busy days while keeping focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- 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