Leah Finn, LMFT

Therapist in California

Leah Finn is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California.

Licensed inCalifornia
License98860
NPI 1336457506
Experience8+ years
LanguagesEnglish

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About Leah

Leah Finn is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She draws on eight years of clinical experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Leah offers a warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental presence in sessions.

Her background includes community organizing and work focused on social, racial, and economic justice. That history shapes how she pays attention to how race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability affect everyday life and relationships.

Background and approach

Leah aims to meet people where they are and tailor therapy to each person’s needs. Leah uses an attachment-focused lens alongside client-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches. She also incorporates dialectical behavior and existential ideas when they fit the work.

This mix supports practical changes, clearer communication, and deeper self-understanding. She has supported people facing trauma, emotional abuse, chronic health challenges, caregiving stress, and addiction. Leah also works with concerns around intimacy, body image, codependency, dissociation, and ADHD.

She provides sex-positive care for people in kink or polyamorous communities and offers LGBT-affirming services. Sessions include checking current struggles, setting short-term goals, and practicing skills for day-to-day life. Leah encourages strengths-focused work and helps people try small experiments between sessions.

Her goal is to help clients feel more capable, connected, and able to move toward the life they want.

Credentials

LMFT (California): License 98860 · expires June 2026
NPI: 1336457506 · national provider identifier

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Focus areas and approaches

Everything Leah lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
LGBT
Grief
Depression
Coping with life changes
Addictions
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Trauma and abuse
Intimacy-related issues
Sleeping disorders
Anger management
Self esteem
Compassion fatigue
ADHD
Abandonment
Attachment issues
BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
Body image
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Codependency
Commitment issues
Communication problems
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Dependent personality
Dissociation
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fertility issues
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Gender dysphoria
Guilt and shame
HIV / AIDS
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Narcissism
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Prejudice and discrimination
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexual assault and abuse
Sexual dysfunction
Sexuality
Smoking / vaping cessation
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Leah names

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Online support

Attachment-informed therapy and flexible online care

Leah often draws from attachment-based therapy to look at how early and current relationships shape how people feel and connect. This approach helps with concerns like intimacy issues, abandonment, family of origin patterns, and chronic feelings of emptiness by focusing on relationship needs and safety in connections.

She also uses client-centered therapy, which centers the person's experience and priorities and aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep people stuck and to practice small, skill-based changes that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leah collaborates with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. She mixes approaches as needed and checks in regularly to see what helps.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video gives face-to-face interaction for deeper relational work, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging or live chat lets people check in between sessions or use shorter touchpoints. These formats make scheduling easier and let people use the format that best supports their daily routine.

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Frequently asked

What kinds of concerns does Leah help with?

Leah supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family problems, addiction, intimacy-related issues, sleeping and anger problems, low self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on strengths, practical skills, and exploring attachment and relationship patterns.

What is her clinical background and experience?

She has eight years of clinical experience and a history of community organizing that informs her attention to social and cultural dynamics in therapy.

What credentials and location are listed?

She is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing under California law and works with clients based in California.

Which languages are offered and are international clients supported?

Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different scheduling and communication needs.

How does pricing work for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin working together?

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