Leah Finn , LMFT

Leah Finn is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area and throughout California. She brings a warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental approach to therapy, creating a space where people can explore fears, concerns, and their deepest hopes for change. Leah emphasizes respect, empathy, sensitivity, and compassion in her work and supports clients in building the life they want.

Leah has worked with people from a wide range of backgrounds to address depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, emotional abuse, and issues related to disability. In 2018 she founded Healing Solutions Psychotherapy. Her practice uses a strength-based framework that weaves mindfulness with cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, narrative, solution-focused, and psychodynamic techniques to help clients develop practical coping skills and deeper self-understanding. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and is licensed to practice in California.

Before becoming a therapist, Leah worked as a community organizer for social, racial, and economic justice and has extensive training in anti-oppression work that attends to how race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability intersect. She specializes in working with LGBTQIA+ individuals and families, provides sex-positive and culturally competent care for people who identify as polyamorous or who are part of kink communities, and is certified as a domestic violence counselor with 48 hours of LGBT-specialized training. Leah tailors therapy to each person’s unique needs and aims to empower people to feel heard, understood, and more whole.

Attachment, Client-Centered, and CBT Approaches for Online Care

Leah integrates attachment-based work into her practice to help clients understand how early relationships influence current patterns - this approach supports healing around abandonment, attachment difficulties, and relationship struggles by exploring connection and emotional bonding. Client-centered therapy is a core part of her style, offering a nonjudgmental, empathic stance that helps people clarify values, build self-compassion, and make choices that feel authentic.

She also incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT provides practical strategies for coping, problem solving, and improving day-to-day functioning. Leah draws from these approaches flexibly to meet each person where they are and to address concerns such as trauma, grief, intimacy issues, and self-esteem.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process - Leah works together with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences and to adjust methods as therapy progresses. Online therapy offers practical flexibility: sessions can occur by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity of care, and access licensed professionals from different locations.