Leah Petrucci
Compassionate, practical support for families
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Leah
Leah Petrucci is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She has twenty years of experience in the mental health and social work field, including more than seven years at the master’s level. Leah focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationships, trauma, depression, grief, and intimacy-related issues.
She also addresses eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her approach is flexible and practical. Leah combines methods from attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical techniques, the Gottman Method, and client-centered care. She tailors goals to each person and talks through real-life problems in straightforward language.
Sessions emphasize skills, behavior changes, and clearer communication in relationships. Leah draws on varied work settings and personal experience to shape her practice. She supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, blended family challenges, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and the aftermath of disaster or domestic violence.
She can help family members set boundaries when a loved one has a personality disorder or substance problem, and she may recommend community supports like 12-step groups to complement therapy. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online in several formats.
Leah will not work with people in active substance use unless they are in medication assisted therapy; she works with clients after detox or who are engaged in recovery programs to maintain sobriety. Her style is collaborative and rooted in practical tools that parents and families can apply day to day.
Approaches and online care for families and individuals
Leah commonly blends attachment-based work, client-centered therapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to address family and parenting concerns. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and helps people change interaction patterns. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a strong therapeutic relationship so clients feel heard and understood. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns, and teaches practical skills to respond differently to stress, anxiety, or mood problems.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Leah will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to use and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families and individuals. Sessions can happen by video call or phone, and shorter check-ins are available through live chat or text messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a weekly routine, keep continuity during life transitions, and use skills between meetings for steady progress.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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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