Leah Grace

I believe healing happens in relationships where you feel truly seen, understood, and safe enough to be yourself. I work with adults navigating trauma, anxiety, grief, relationship patterns, and the ways earlier experiences continue to shape how they feel, connect, and move through the world. My approach looks beyond symptoms to the relationship between our experiences, attachment patterns, emotions, and nervous system—honoring the connection between mind and body in the healing process.

I also specialize in perinatal mental health, supporting people through pregnancy, postpartum, birth experiences, identity shifts, and the emotional complexities of becoming and being a parent.

A significant part of my work is with young children through age six and their caregivers. Families often reach out when big emotions or behaviors feel overwhelming, anxiety or separation is getting in the way, school or daycare is expressing concerns, or a child has experienced something difficult. I help families understand what may be happening beneath the behavior while supporting regulation, connection, and the caregiver-child relationship.

Above all, I want therapy to feel like a place where you can exhale—whether you're coming for yourself, navigating the transition to parenthood, or seeking support for your child and family.

I believe symptoms and behaviors often make sense when we understand the experiences and relationships that shaped them. My work is trauma-informed, attachment-based, and grounded in the connection between mind and body. Rather than focusing only on changing thoughts, feelings, or behaviors, we’ll explore what may be happening beneath them while building practical tools for regulation, healing, and change.

With adults, I integrate EMDR, somatic interventions, DBT-informed skills, and other evidence-based approaches to address trauma, anxiety, relationship patterns, and experiences that continue to live in both the mind and nervous system. I have advanced training in perinatal mental health and understand pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenthood through both a psychological and relational lens.

I have particular expertise in infant and early childhood mental health and in working with young children and their caregivers. Because young children communicate through behavior, play, emotion, and relationship, therapy looks different at this age. I work closely with caregivers to understand what a child may be communicating, strengthen the caregiver-child relationship, support emotional regulation and healthy development, and address experiences contributing to distress.

I am endorsed as an Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist and have advanced training in Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), and other developmentally appropriate, evidence-based approaches for young children and families. My professional background also includes years of providing clinical supervision, consultation, and training to other mental health professionals.

Across every stage of life, my goal is not simply to reduce symptoms, but to create lasting change through greater understanding, safety, connection, and compassion.

Starting therapy can feel vulnerable, and you don’t need to have everything figured out before we meet. Our first session is a chance for us to get to know one another and begin making sense of what brings you to therapy, what you’re hoping will feel different, and the experiences and relationships that may be shaping what you’re experiencing now.

If you’re coming for yourself, we’ll spend time understanding what’s happening in your life now while beginning to explore the patterns, experiences, relationships, and mind-body responses that may be connected to it. There’s no expectation that you share everything at once. We’ll move at a pace that feels safe and comfortable to you.

If you’re seeking therapy for your child, our first steps will focus on understanding your child within the context of their development, relationships, and family. We’ll talk about your concerns as well as your child’s strengths, history, and experiences, and what you’re noticing at home, daycare, or school. I’ll also help you understand what therapy can look like for a young child and how you’ll be involved along the way.

Whether you’re reaching out for yourself or your child, you’ll have space to ask questions, talk about what you need, and get a sense of whether I’m the right fit. My hope is that you leave our first meeting feeling heard, understood, and a little less alone—with a clearer sense of what may be happening and how we can move forward together.