About Leva
Leva Talton is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and phobias. She also supports those facing depression, anger, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. Her approach is down-to-earth and goal-focused so parents can quickly see what to expect.
She brings eight years of experience as a psychotherapist and uses straightforward methods that fit each person.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical skills, mindful awareness, and clearer thinking. Clients take an active role in setting goals and trying small, doable steps between sessions. Leva blends evidence-informed methods to suit each client's needs.
She draws from cognitive behavioral work to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values even when difficult feelings are present. Emotionally focused techniques help when relationship or attachment hurts are central.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She aims to meet people where they are and to create a steady, predictable process. That often means building routines, practicing coping skills, and tracking progress over time.
Leva explains options clearly and tailors plans to the family's goals. She helps parents and individuals navigate blended family concerns, caregiving stress, body image struggles, chronic illness challenges, codependency or domestic violence impacts. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can manage.
How therapeutic approaches come alive online
Leva often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change specific behaviors. That approach breaks concerns into small steps and practical experiments that can be done between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on values and willingness to feel difficult emotions while still moving toward what matters most, which helps with anxiety, phobias, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to current needs, past attempts, and personal goals, then suggest methods to try together. Plans are adjusted as progress is tracked, so clients stay involved in choosing the path that fits them best.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and routines. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skills practice, phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat can be a shorter check-in between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling family, work, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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