Lea Cattan

Lea Cattan is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with 20 years of experience. She focuses on everyday stresses that pile up and the relationships that feel strained. Her approach centers on listening first and helping people name what matters to them.

Lea uses Client-Centered Therapy to place the client's experience at the center of sessions. She helps people sort through anxiety, work stress, and parenting challenges by following their priorities. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) guides work on intimacy issues and attachment concerns by looking at feelings and response patterns.

Her background includes long-term work with people coping with life changes and recurring worries. Lea also supports those navigating abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, blended family issues, and divorce or separation. She brings practical attention to communication problems, codependency, and control issues.

People may seek her help for body image concerns, chronic pain or illness, caregiver stress, and aging-related questions. Career difficulties and commitment or dependent personality concerns are also part of her practice focus. Sessions may address coping after natural or human-caused disasters as well.

Lea works in English and Russian and accepts international clients. She encourages a gentle, step-by-step start and asks people to name their goals so therapy stays focused on what they want to change.

Client-centered and Emotion-focused care online

Lea uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely to each person's story and building sessions around their goals. This approach helps when stress, career pressure, or parenting concerns feel overwhelming. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns of feeling and response in close relationships and can be helpful for intimacy and attachment issues.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lea will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and adapt methods to fit what the client needs. She emphasizes working together to pick techniques that feel useful and realistic for daily life.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm current session options before booking so you know what formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a brief update is needed. Licensed professionals can use these options to keep therapy consistent during life transitions and when time or distance would otherwise make regular meetings harder.