Leah Finn , LMFT

Leah Finn is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area who brings an inclusive, trauma-informed perspective to her work. With a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University and an LMFT credential - a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - she has supported people facing depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, and the aftereffects of trauma or emotional abuse.

Since 2010 Leah has worked with individuals and families from diverse backgrounds, and in 2018 she founded Healing Solutions Psychotherapy to expand her clinical work. Her style is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental, rooted in a strength-based approach that weaves mindfulness with cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, narrative, solution-focused, and psychodynamic techniques to meet each person where they are.

Leah has a background in community organizing around social, racial, and economic justice and extensive training in anti-oppression frameworks, which informs her attention to how race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability shape life experience. She offers culturally competent, sex-positive care for LGBTQIA+ individuals and families, including people who identify as polyamorous or who participate in kink and alternative sex cultures. Leah is also certified as a domestic violence counselor with 48 hours of LGBT-specialized training.

Leah tailors therapy to each person’s needs, focusing on practical coping skills, emotional insight, and healthier relational patterns. She aims to create a supportive environment where people can explore fears, grief, intimacy concerns, and life transitions while working toward the changes they want to make.

Therapeutic Approaches and Accessible Online Care

Leah often draws on attachment-based work to explore how early relationships shape current patterns - this approach helps people understand connection, abandonment, and intimacy issues and supports healing in relationships. She also uses client-centered therapy, which emphasizes empathy, active listening, and the client’s own goals to foster self-awareness and personal growth. In addition, Leah integrates cognitive behavioral therapy - CBT - to identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Leah works with each person to clarify goals, test methods, and adjust the plan over time so therapy fits the client’s preferences, life circumstances, and healing priorities.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet with a therapist. Leah provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or mobility constraints. These options expand access to consistent care and allow people to pursue therapy in formats that feel most comfortable and sustainable for them.