Leigh Ann Whitus, LCSW

Leigh Ann Whitus is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, grief, and family strain. She welcomes conversations about parenting challenges and caregiver stress and aims to make the first step feel manageable. Her first priority is a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about what’s hard right now.

Leigh Ann draws on practical, evidence-based methods to address daily struggles and intense emotions. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm.

Sessions begin with a focused conversation about what brought someone to therapy and what they hope to change. From there she works collaboratively to set realistic goals and try strategies that fit each person’s life. She can include faith-informed Christian counseling on request when that is important to a client.

With six years of experience, Leigh Ann aims to tailor each session to the person in front of her rather than offering a one-size-fits-all plan. She pays attention to relational issues like attachment, communication problems, and family conflict while also addressing problems such as guilt, shame, impulsivity, and isolation.

Leigh Ann practices in Tennessee as an LCSW and provides culturally sensitive care to people from diverse backgrounds. If you are a carer dealing with burnout or role strain she lists Supporting carers among her focus areas and can help you talk through how to manage caregiving demands and self-care.

How Leigh Ann Uses Talk Therapy Online and What to Expect

Leigh Ann uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based techniques to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build calmer daily routines. CBT focuses on identifying thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and then practicing concrete alternatives to get different results. Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice strong emotions without acting on them and teaches simple attention practices that can lessen reactivity.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Leigh Ann will listen to your situation and work with you to test methods that fit your goals and lifestyle. That might mean trying behavioral experiments one week and emotion-regulation skills the next, then deciding together what helps most.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm which online options are available before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow for check-ins when a brief conversation will help. Therapists can adapt exercises and homework to work well in remote sessions, and the collaborative process remains focused on practical tools you can use between meetings.