About Leah
Leah D'agostino is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, relationship struggles, self-esteem concerns, anger, bipolar symptoms, and major life changes. She uses plain language and steady support to help someone take small, practical steps toward feeling more like themselves again. Leah keeps sessions calm and direct.
She listens closely and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Together they set realistic goals and practice skills that can be used between sessions.
Background and approach
Her background includes 15 years of clinical work in Pennsylvania as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW. That experience brings practical insight into common emotional and behavioral challenges people face across adulthood. Leah draws on several therapy approaches depending on the person’s needs.
She mixes acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools and attachment-focused perspectives to address relationships and coping skills. Dialectical and client-centered techniques also shape how she teaches emotion regulation and problem solving. Sessions are paced to the person.
Leah helps people identify what matters to them, learn ways to handle strong emotions, and rebuild healthier routines. She aims to make therapy feel useful and do-able, not overwhelming.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters most and take action toward those values even when tough emotions are present. It can help with anxiety, stress, and shifting life directions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors feed each other and teaches practical skills to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with mood swings. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relationship patterns and how early bonds influence current interactions, which is helpful for communication problems, codependency, and relationship distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leah collaborates with each person to pick and adjust methods that match their goals, preferences, and everyday demands. She blends approaches when that helps clients meet short-term goals and build long-term skills.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexible options. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can fit quick check-ins or shorter updates. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English