Leah Pace , LCSW

Leah Pace is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She works from Louisiana and focuses on relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, and issues that often affect women and parents. Leah takes a direct and caring approach that aims to make therapy feel practical and doable.

She trained with a Master of Social Work and has worked across outpatient clinics, inpatient behavioral health, schools, crisis services, group therapy, and long-term care. That range means she has seen how life events, grief, and stress affect daily routines and relationships. She has substantial experience working with trauma-related symptoms and mood concerns such as bipolar disorder.

In sessions she blends straightforward talk with evidence-based tools. Leah uses methods like cognitive behavioral strategies to identify unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment practices to clarify values, and mindfulness exercises to calm racing thoughts. She also incorporates EMDR for trauma work when appropriate.

Leah’s style is client-centered and nonjudgmental. She listens for what matters to each person, then helps set small, achievable goals. People can expect a mix of skills practice, goal planning, and space to process difficult feelings.

Her additional focus areas include parenting challenges, intimacy-related concerns, grief, codependency, and complex family dynamics such as blended family or adoption-related issues. Leah supports people dealing with anger, commitment worries, and the stress of caregiving or life transitions.

How Leah Uses Therapy Approaches Online

Leah often combines cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and focus on what matters. CBT involves identifying thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. ACT helps people clarify values and take action toward them even when difficult feelings remain.

She also integrates mindfulness exercises to reduce reactivity and ground attention. Mindfulness practice can be short breathing or body-awareness exercises that reduce stress and improve emotion regulation. Leah treats the choice of approach as a collaborative process and will work with each person to find what fits their goals and comfort level.

Online sessions give flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills demonstrations, phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or times when video isn't possible, and live chat or text messaging let people check in or do brief skill work between sessions. These options make it easier to continue steady work on relationships, trauma recovery, mood management, and parenting challenges without major scheduling disruption.