Leah Finn , LMFT

Leah Finn is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who works with individuals and families across a wide range of life circumstances. She holds the LMFT credential - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - and earned a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. With eight years of clinical experience, she founded Healing Solutions Psychotherapy in 2018 and brings a warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental style to her work.

Leah uses a strength-based framework that blends mindfulness with evidence-informed and humanistic methods, including cognitive-behavioral, narrative, solution-focused, and psychodynamic techniques. She creates an environment where people can explore fears, process trauma, examine relationship patterns, and pursue deeper changes in how they live and connect. Her practice pays careful attention to how race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability intersect and shape experience, reflecting extensive training in anti-oppression work.

She specializes in areas such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family issues, intimacy-related concerns, addictions, ADHD, and coping with life changes and chronic health challenges. Leah also works with LGBT clients and families, including those who identify as polyamorous or participate in kink and alternative sex culture, and she is certified as a domestic violence counselor with 48 hours of LGBT-specialized training. Her approach emphasizes respect, empathy, sensitivity, and compassion while tailoring therapy to each person’s unique needs and goals.

Approach-Focused Online Care and Methods

Leah draws on attachment-based therapy to help clients understand how early relationship patterns influence current attachments and emotional reactions - this approach can be useful for people working through abandonment, intimacy concerns, or relationship conflict. She also uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes empathy, active listening, and creating a collaborative space where clients lead the pace of change and explore values, identity, and meaning. In addition, Leah applies cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and stress.

Finding the best therapeutic approach is part of the work itself. Leah collaborates with each person to tailor methods to their goals, preferences, and life context, adjusting strategies over time as needs evolve. This collaborative process helps people feel engaged and empowered in their healing.

Online therapy with Leah is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to access consistent care from home or while traveling, support continuity during life transitions, and allow for different ways of connecting that suit each person’s communication style.