Leigh-Anne Husted, LCSW

Leigh-Anne Husted is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and relationship strain. She works with adults facing parenting pressures, career transitions, compassion fatigue, and the everyday weight of life changes. Leigh-Anne aims to make therapy practical and straightforward for people under strain.

She earned a Master’s degree in Social Work from Florida State University and holds LCSW credentials in Florida and Utah. Her background includes work in schools, residential care, wilderness therapy, and outreach with people experiencing homelessness. Those settings shaped her direct, hands-on style and ability to draw from many approaches.

In sessions she combines attachment-based thinking with client-centered conversations and cognitive-behavioral skills. She uses mindfulness and elements of dialectical behavior therapy when helpful. The focus is on clear tools people can use between sessions to manage urges, reframe thoughts, and cope with strong emotions.

Leigh-Anne pays attention to how past relationships shape current patterns. She helps people recognize codependency, abandonment wounds, or attachment issues and build new ways of relating. For those dealing with addiction or trauma, she emphasizes motivation, practical coping skills, and steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Her work is aimed at adults in Florida seeking a therapist who draws on varied experience and practical methods. People interested in starting are asked to follow the site's matching steps to connect and schedule a first appointment.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections. It helps people spot patterns like avoidance, clinginess, or fears of abandonment and try new ways of relating to others.

Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person’s own goals and perspective. The therapist listens without judgment and helps clients find their own solutions and strengths to face life challenges.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives straightforward tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, addiction cravings, and coping with stressful situations.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leigh-Anne will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean combining attachment ideas with CBT skills or adding mindfulness and DBT techniques when emotions run high.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. It lets people schedule time around work, caregiving, or school and reduces travel time. Different session formats may have different practical advantages, so ask about current options before booking to confirm what is offered. The focus is on making therapy usable day to day, with tools and check-ins that apply to real life.