About Leah
Leah Syberg is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are weighed down by stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, relationship struggles, and depression. Leah frames therapy as a collaborative process and aims to give practical tools each session.
Her background includes work with people facing attachment wounds, abandonment concerns, blended family challenges, and issues with codependency and communication.
Background and approach
She also addresses substance use concerns, body image struggles, and mood regulation challenges. Her range of focus reflects an interest in both immediate coping skills and longer-term behavioral shifts. Leah uses client-centered approaches alongside structured methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies.
She also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship work and incorporates mindfulness practices to help with emotional regulation. Sessions are goal-oriented and aim to leave people with tangible skills to try between appointments. People describe her style as direct but empathic, prioritizing clear steps and understandable strategies.
She treats therapy as problem-solving that balances emotional safety with practical change. Leah works with adults and frames progress as steady, measurable steps rather than quick fixes. Therapy with Leah is offered in English and is accessible to international clients.
Session options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and session cost varies by location and therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Leah commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and helping people find their own solutions, which can be useful for relationship and attachment concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and teaches practical steps to change patterns that fuel anxiety or depression.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotion regulation is a central issue. DBT skills teach breathing, grounding, and distress-tolerance strategies that help during intense moments and reduce reactive behaviors. Choosing the right blend of methods is part of the process and happens together with the client in early sessions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk about goals, try strategies, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Leah frames therapy as teamwork where the client’s preferences and day-to-day needs shape which methods are used.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from anywhere, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t wanted, and live chat or messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English