About Leah
Leah Petrucci is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 20 years working in mental health and social work. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship problems, grief, phobias, and addiction-related concerns. Leah focuses on practical steps people can use right away and keeps things straightforward and compassionate.
Leah combines several approaches rather than relying on one method. She works with clients to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for stress and emotion regulation, communication practice, and ways to cope with life changes. She will also support people navigating intimacy, self-esteem, chronic health struggles, caregiver stress, and attachment wounds. Leah has broad experience across settings and draws on that background to tailor care to each person.
She supports people who have completed detox or formal addiction programs and can work with those using medication-assisted treatment for opioid dependency. She may suggest mutual-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous or Overeaters Anonymous to add community support alongside therapy. Her approach is collaborative and adaptable.
Leah respects each person’s spiritual beliefs and will include them in sessions only if the client wants that. She emphasizes building a dependable working relationship and practical plans clients can use between meetings. Leah practices using methods like attachment-based work, client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, and elements of the Gottman Method to address relationship patterns.
Her goal is to help people gain clearer choices and healthier ways of coping.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns of closeness and safety in relationships. It helps people notice how early relationship experiences affect current trust, dependence, and boundary issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change them, which can reduce anxiety and manage mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills and can be useful when strong emotions or impulsive reactions get in the way of daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens collaboratively. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs and then try methods that match those priorities. Clients and the therapist check in and adjust the plan over time to make sure the work feels helpful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in formats that include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a camera-free check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a written format helps organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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