About Leigh
Leigh Evans is a licensed social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and depression. She offers steady, nonjudgmental support for anyone dealing with big life changes or ongoing emotional strain. Leigh speaks plainly and aims to make first steps into therapy feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
Leigh holds a Licensed Master Social Worker credential, LMSW, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, and has practiced for ten years across Florida and Michigan.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person and to set clear, practical goals together. In sessions she draws on several approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered techniques, and mindfulness tools. These methods help people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and take small steps toward what matters to them.
Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas also inform how she listens for patterns that affect mood and relationships. Leigh works with concerns such as caregiver stress, compassion fatigue, career strain, relationship and communication problems, and coping with illness or end-of-life issues. She also supports people dealing with divorce, domestic violence, isolation, and life-purpose questions.
Therapy with Leigh can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling so sessions can begin in a way that fits their life.
How Leigh’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person leads the conversation and explores what matters most. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to calm the body and steady attention, which can reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leigh will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and together they will try approaches that fit. She adjusts methods as needed, mixing techniques to meet changing needs and priorities in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual connection, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can serve as short check-ins or for people who prefer typing. These options give flexibility for scheduling, managing follow-ups, and keeping momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English