“It takes practice to change our habits of surviving. Insight is not enough to create lasting change.”

- Janina Fisher

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Hi, I’m Leanna!

I’m a fellow human, a seeker of wisdom, a lover of dogs, an occasional goofball, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts and Licensed Professional Counselor in Connecticut. I am dedicated to continual excellence in the quality of service that I offer.

I provide creative and holistic therapy that is informed by integrating contemporary scientific research and time-tested wisdom from spirituality and art. I am always continuing to learn and endlessly curious.

I help people better understand what’s going on inside of them through creative and fun strategies - and then I help them find avenues for the change they crave.

Check out my values page to read about the core truths I weave into my therapeutic approach.

 
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Gentle Practice: Empowering Change Through Creative Therapy

Identities that resonate with me…

  • Feminist

  • Neurodivergent

  • Queer

  • Spoonie

Fun things about me…

  • I enjoy being creative, primarily I like knitting and sewing

  • My only exercise is a weekly aerial silks class, that I’m absolutely terrible at.

  • I’m a self-identified nerd and I am never done learning

  • I am highly sensitive, introverted, and sometimes prefer dogs and books to people

Qualifications:

M.S. Mental Health Counseling, University at Albany
Certified Trauma Specialist, Attachment, Regulation, & Competency Framework, ARCFramework.org
Certified Grief Counselor, Grief.com
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 1, Trauma Themes, sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 2, Developmental Injury, sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org

warm and inviting female autistic ADHD therapist welcoming you to start treatment.

Therapy. Better.

 
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MORE than just talking to someone

If you’ve tried therapy before and it hasn’t been as helpful as you’d hoped, it may be because you need something different.

Much of what keeps us blocked and stuck in our pain is happening below the level of awareness.

In order to make effective and lasting change, therapy must involve a knowledge of what’s happening in the body.

I will guide you to a deeper understanding of how your body is operating and how to work WITH your body to achieve new outcomes.

two sets of hands in connection artfully covered in blue and white dust symbolizing team work for somatic trauma healing for autism and ADHD in therapy.

You can do this! Let’s do it together.

Together, we will work to safely reconnect you with the wisdom inside through gentle exploration and gentle practice.

 

Oh, and this is Poppet. My co-therapist and dearest friend.

 
 
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