About Leora
Leora Mirkin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin who helps people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and ADHD. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through what matters most to them and set practical goals. Sessions are straightforward and focused on small, useful changes that add up over time.
Leora has nine years of clinical experience and centers care on each person’s everyday life.
Background and approach
She often addresses depression, bipolar mood concerns, obsessive thoughts, trauma, and low self-esteem. She also supports people navigating gender dysphoria, body image, and relationship boundaries. Her work includes attention to issues faced by LGBT and poly communities.
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and acceptance strategies. She uses client-centered methods to follow what each person brings, and attachment-based ideas when past relationships shape current patterns. Therapy sessions mix practical skill-building with reflective conversation to help people move forward.
Leora offers several online formats for sessions, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Scheduling follows the platform process and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. She responds to messages at least once per weekday.
People who value direct, compassionate guidance tend to do well with her style. She works with adults on a wide range of emotional and life challenges and focuses on building tools that carry into daily routines.
How approaches like ACT and CBT fit into online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions by focusing on what matters and small steps toward it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thought patterns and behavior links and teaches practical skills to reduce worry, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape today's reactions and can help with relationship boundaries and trust issues.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Leora will discuss options with each person and adapt techniques to goals and preferences. Together they decide whether to emphasize ACT, CBT, attachment work, or a mix of methods based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when someone needs lower bandwidth or a quieter way to check in. Live chat and text-based messaging are handy for brief check-ins, between-session reflections, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives while keeping work focused on daily changes and skill practice.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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