About Leigh-Anne
Leigh-Anne Husted is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, relationship and family concerns. She supports clients facing parenting strain, career shifts, compassion fatigue, and the challenges that come with major life changes. Her work also focuses on LGBT issues, trauma and abuse, and problems with self-esteem and purpose.
Leigh-Anne earned a Master’s degree in Social Work from Florida State University and holds the LCSW credential.
Background and approach
She has 11 years of practical experience working with at-risk youth and young adults in a range of settings. That background includes schools, residential care, wilderness therapy, and outreach to people experiencing homelessness. Her clinical approach is straightforward and practical.
Sessions tend to center on what’s happening now and what small changes could make daily life easier. Leigh-Anne draws from attachment-focused ideas, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and mindfulness skills to build coping tools clients can use between appointments. She often helps people untangle patterns tied to abandonment, attachment, codependency, or communication struggles.
She also offers support around adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, first responder challenges, and feelings of isolation or emptiness. Leigh-Anne aims for a collaborative style. Conversations move at the client’s pace while focusing on clear goals and workable strategies.
Her Florida practice reflects hands-on experience with diverse, occasionally high-need situations, and she brings that practical perspective into online and phone sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes relationships and emotional bonds. It helps people understand how early connections shape current reactions, and it can be useful for attachment issues, abandonment feelings, and communication problems.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and compulsive habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist partners with each client to decide which methods fit best. Treatment choices are adjusted over time based on the person's needs, goals, and what feels most useful in sessions.
Online therapy lets people connect in ways that fit their life. Video calls work well for in-depth sessions and visual rapport. Phone appointments are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, skill practice, or when someone prefers typed communication. These formats offer flexibility to keep momentum between meetings and make regular contact easier to maintain.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English