Leah Donatelli, NCC, RYT, LCMHC-A, MA(She/Her/Hers)

Leah Donatelli is a psychotherapist providing virtual care across North and South Carolina. Her specialities include anxiety, stress, creating healthy relationships with food, body image, self-care, and boundaries in relationships. It's the "golden child" who is great at taking care of and attuning to everyone but themselves that often find her. Many of Leah's patients come to therapy to explore what they value, what they want for their life, and to learn how to trust themselves. Her patients are highly motivated for change.

Leah believes in a healthy balance of committed action, rest, and creativity for sustainable change to occur. Her approach is a blend of cognitive, mindfulness, and somatic techniques. Leah guides her patients to contact stuck points and shame-filled parts compassionately, connect to their soul essence, and pair insights with actions items to practice. Her patients learn how to hear the wisdom of their body; how it informs them about their attachment wounds, emotions, desires, and needs. By learning to trust the body's signals, Leah's patients learn to trust their whole self. After receiving treatment with Leah, her patients transition from neglecting themselves to experiencing self-care, less stress, peace with food, and healthy reciprocal relationships as non-negotiables.

When clients start with Leah, they are often experiencing life from the head up, thinking their way through their challenges. Leah helps clients learn to feel their way through challenges remaining connected to and honoring of the wisdom inside. Leah's approach is full of the deepest empathy for what brought her clients to what they are experiencing in the present. Attentive listening and mindful curiosity are at the center of her practice.

In addition to her master's in mental health counseling, Leah was trained by The Center for Body Trust™ and The Embodied Recovery Institute™ for Eating Disorders.