About Leah
Leah Murray is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the aftereffects of trauma. Leah works with adults facing relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting strain, and self-esteem struggles.
Leah uses clear, straightforward conversation to help people name what feels hard. She emphasizes attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current behavior. That often helps people understand recurring relationship problems and feelings of emptiness.
Background and approach
She blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques to turn insight into action. Sessions may include looking at unhelpful thoughts, testing new behaviors, and practicing communication skills. This mix supports both short-term coping and longer-term change.
Leah also draws on trauma-focused methods when past abuse or traumatic events are central to a person’s difficulties. She helps people process painful memories at a pace that feels manageable. The goal is to reduce the intensity of upsetting reactions and improve daily functioning.
With six years of clinical experience, Leah brings practical tools and steady support to each session. She treats specific concerns like ADHD symptoms, postpartum depression, compassion fatigue, and issues around adoption or attachment. People who work with her can expect straightforward guidance and collaborative planning.
Leah offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and messaging to fit different schedules. She practices as an FL LMHC and holds conversations in English. To begin, clients follow an online matching process to set up their first session.
Attachment and Cognitive Approaches Delivered Online
Leah commonly draws on attachment-based work to help people understand how early bonds influence current relationships. This approach looks at patterns of connection, fear of abandonment, and communication habits to make sense of recurring problems.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-oriented, useful for anxiety, depression, impulsivity, and coping with life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leah treats therapy as a collaboration and will help clients decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She adjusts pace and techniques based on feedback and what feels effective.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep face-to-face interaction while avoiding travel. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit shorter check-ins into a busy day or to continue work between scheduled sessions.
These formats allow people to connect from different locations within the region and maintain regular momentum in treatment. Licensed professionals and therapists can deliver the same therapeutic tools through these options, adapted to each format's strengths.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English