About Lee
Lee Schlanger is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with five years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addiction, and other intense emotions. Lee brings a warm, direct approach that aims to make people feel heard from the first session.
He starts by building a calm, collaborative connection and identifying the most pressing problems to address. Sessions emphasize talking through difficult feelings and tracing patterns that keep those feelings alive.
Background and approach
Lee uses practical strategies alongside emotional work so clients gain tools and insight they can use between sessions. Lee draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and early wounds. He also uses client-centered methods to keep sessions grounded in respect and acceptance.
Cognitive behavioral techniques and elements of dialectical behavior therapy provide concrete skills for managing anxiety, anger, and urges tied to addiction. Many people come for help after loss, trauma, or during major life changes. Lee also supports those dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image concerns, and problems rooted in family of origin.
He aims to untangle symptoms like dissociation, codependency, and difficulty with commitment so people can move forward. Sessions are offered in English and Lee works with clients across Florida and beyond. He presents himself as helpful, nonjudgmental, and committed to a respectful counseling relationship focused on practical progress and emotional insight.
How Lee’s Approach Translates to Online Therapy
Lee often uses attachment-based work to help people see how early relationships shape current reactions. This approach looks at patterns in relationships and helps name the unmet needs that drive anxiety or avoidance.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments. CBT offers concrete steps for reducing anxiety, managing mood swings, and changing behaviors tied to addiction.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lee will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adjust methods as needs become clearer, mixing emotional processing with skills training when that feels most useful.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people read facial cues and work through emotions in real time. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or for a faster check-in. Live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins, coaching, or mood tracking between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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