About Leyla
Leyla Fonseca Corrales is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She speaks in plain terms and aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and doable. Her style is warm and collaborative so clients can move at their own pace.
Leyla draws on practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She pairs structured techniques with open conversation so sessions fit each person's needs. Many clients come feeling misunderstood or unsure how to say what they mean; she focuses on building trust first. Her additional focus areas include autism and Asperger Syndrome, communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, self-love, social anxiety and phobia, and issues common in young adults.
Sessions are offered in English and run online across New York. With six years of experience and the New York LMHC credential, Leyla brings steady, patient support to everyday struggles. She explains tools plainly and helps people practice them between sessions.
Her goal is to help clients feel more confident handling emotions and relationships. If someone is curious about starting, Leyla encourages taking a small first step and seeing how the fit feels. She helps people set realistic goals and adjusts the plan as they progress.
How Leyla’s CBT-based care works online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, is a hands-on approach Leyla uses to help people notice patterns of thought that make anxiety or low mood worse. Sessions often include simple exercises and small experiments to try between meetings so progress is practical and trackable.Her general approach blends structured techniques with open conversation. That means some sessions follow a clear plan with worksheets or thought records, and others focus on talking things through at a gentler pace. She works collaboratively to pick methods that fit a person's goals and comfort level.
Online formats make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick reflections, brief updates, or people who prefer writing to speaking. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and day-to-day needs.
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English