About Leora
Leora Mirkin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people navigate anxiety, stress, relationship challenges, and phobias. She offers a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about identity, body image, and difficult feelings. Leora speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Leora has nine years of clinical experience and practices in Wisconsin. She works with people across a wide range of concerns including mood disorders, trauma and abuse, compulsions and OCD, ADHD, and issues tied to gender and sexuality.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving strain, and career or money stress. In sessions she blends cognitive behavioral approaches with mindfulness and acceptance strategies. She also draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centered methods to tailor work to each person.
That means sessions can include skill building, values-based goals, and time to process painful experiences. Leora aims to make therapy feel relaxed rather than overly clinical. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what a person wants to change.
She gives clear tools for managing intrusive thoughts, panic, or overwhelming emotions while helping clients build more satisfying relationships and self-acceptance. Her practice supports people dealing with phobias alongside related concerns like anxiety and OCD. People typically find step-by-step plans, grounding practices, and short exercises helpful between visits.
Those who want messaging or live chat options can work with her using those formats.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Leora commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in her online practice. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments, which can help with panic, phobias, and intrusive thoughts. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes values and small committed actions, useful for people who want to live in line with what matters despite anxiety.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Leora will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and pace. She may combine elements from different approaches so the plan fits the person's needs rather than forcing one single method.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and skills demonstrations. Phone can be good when bandwidth is limited or a conversation needs to fit a work break. Live chat and text messaging allow for shorter check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing touchpoints between scheduled sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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