Leah Finn
Compassionate therapist focused on relationships and healing
LMFT California
- Experience
- 8 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Grief
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Leah
Leah Finn is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings eight years of clinical experience and a background in community organizing to her work.
Background and approach
Leah aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and other life changes in a practical, compassionate way. Leah keeps sessions warm and interactive.
She listens first, then helps people sort what matters most. Her approach blends attachment-focused ideas with cognitive and client-centered tools so people can try small changes between sessions.
Her work often addresses relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and struggles with identity and body image. Leah also supports people coping with trauma, addiction, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue.
She is experienced with LGBT and kink-positive concerns and works to be culturally responsive around race, gender, sexuality, and ability. Leah draws on evidence-informed strategies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to build skills for emotion regulation and better coping.
She also uses attachment-based thinking to help people understand patterns in relationships and improve connection and trust. Therapy with Leah is collaborative.
She helps each person set concrete goals and tests practical steps to reach them. Sessions are tailored to individual needs, and she adapts her style to match how a person prefers to work.
Leah holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology and practices under California law as an LMFT. Her prior community work informs a commitment to anti-oppression and social justice in therapeutic work.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Leah commonly draws on the Gottman Method to look at interaction patterns and communication, helping people learn practical skills for reducing conflict and increasing connection. The focus is on observable habits and exercises that can be practiced between sessions to change day-to-day interactions.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to help people understand how early relationship patterns shape current reactions and expectations. This approach helps identify recurring dynamics and build more reliable ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy is another cornerstone of her work, emphasizing empathic listening and tailoring the pace of work to each person's needs so they feel heard as they explore goals.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Leah works collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust techniques over time. She explains options and checks in regularly to see what is helping and what to try next.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and use of worksheets or shared exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or maintaining progress between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
8+ years
Licensed in
California
Languages
English