About Leah
Leah Pace is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 15 years of experience to her practice. She earned a Master of Social Work degree and has worked across outpatient clinics, inpatient behavioral health, schools, group therapy, crisis intervention, long term care, and case management. Leah meets people where they are and focuses on clear, practical steps toward their goals.
Leah uses straightforward, caring language in sessions. She is direct when needed and non-judgmental.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on helping people manage symptoms such as anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and trauma. She also supports people with relationship and family concerns and intimacy-related issues. Her background includes substantial work with trauma, and she includes approaches that address past stress and upsetting memories.
Leah also draws on methods that help people notice the present moment and commit to values-based changes. Therapy sessions aim to make day-to-day life more manageable and aligned with what matters most to each person. Leah has experience with a wide range of concerns beyond mood and trauma.
She helps people dealing with parenting strains, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and aging concerns. She is familiar with situations involving domestic violence, codependency, and commitment or control struggles. Leah practices in Louisiana and conducts sessions in English.
She offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and needs. To begin, visitors follow a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
How Leah’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck and then take small steps toward what matters most. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by improving daily choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses concrete strategies to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm in difficult moments.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Leah will talk with each person about goals and preferences and try methods that fit those needs. She adapts techniques over time so sessions remain relevant and practical for the client’s life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and homework follow-ups simple between sessions. These options give flexibility for busy schedules and steady continuity of care with licensed professionals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English