About Leigh
Leigh Ann Whitus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people navigate anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and ADHD. She aims to make first steps feel manageable and creates a calm, welcoming space where people can talk about what’s hard. Leigh Ann emphasizes collaboration and helps clients set clear, realistic goals for change.
Leigh Ann earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California and brings six years of clinical experience in Tennessee.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma and family stress, and she offers Christian counseling when requested. She uses straightforward tools from cognitive and mindfulness approaches to address everyday problems. In sessions she combines cognitive behavioral techniques with skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage strong emotions and improve coping.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered methods guide conversations about values, motivation, and next steps. Mindfulness practices are used to increase moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Leigh Ann prefers a collaborative style where the person’s priorities lead the work.
Early sessions focus on identifying immediate concerns and practical strategies to try between meetings. Over time she supports clients in building routines, improving communication, and handling family stressors with clearer boundaries and problem-solving. She provides care in English and works with adults in Tennessee.
Her approach aims to be down-to-earth and useful, with sessions that focus on small, achievable changes rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches used in online care
Leigh Ann uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical changes in behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing symptoms related to ADHD by breaking tasks into smaller steps and testing new habits.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT-based techniques can help when feelings feel intense or impulsive reactions get in the way of daily life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is used to clarify values and guide toward meaningful actions, a helpful complement when motivation or direction feels uncertain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life context. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing thoughts between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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