Lee Schlanger
Compassionate support for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lee
Lee Schlanger is a Florida licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who focuses on family and parenting concerns as well as a broad range of emotional and behavioral struggles. He brings five years of counseling experience and works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, substance use challenges, anger, and relationship or intimacy struggles.
Lee aims to make sessions warm and inviting so parents and caregivers can talk plainly about what’s hard right now.
Background and approach
Sessions begin by connecting and naming the main problems a person or family is dealing with. He takes a collaborative stance and helps clients identify patterns that keep problems repeating. Lee emphasizes finding root causes while also teaching skills to manage symptoms in day-to-day life.
His work draws on approaches that include attachment-based practices, client-centered care, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior tools, and emotionally focused methods. Those methods are used to improve communication, coping, and emotional regulation. Lee also brings experience supporting people through grief, addiction recovery, compassion fatigue, and fatherhood issues.
Lee holds the Florida LMHC credential, listed as FL LMHC MH18548, and practices from Florida. He offers services in English and accepts international clients. Typical session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
He describes his therapeutic stance as helpful and non-judgmental, aiming to build trust, respect, and collaboration. While he does not promise specific outcomes, he focuses on creating a strong counseling relationship to support progress over time.
How Lee’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions using this approach can help parents and caregivers understand connection and repair breaks in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. In virtual sessions CBT is used to teach clear skills for managing anxiety, depression, and daily stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lee collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That planning happens together so clients know why a technique is suggested and how it might help them or their family.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that connection matters. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide options for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit consistent sessions into busy family schedules and to continue work during life transitions.
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
Also works with
- 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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