Leanna Lee-Sydnor (She/Her)

At LLS Therapies, our clinicians have experience working with substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns across outpatient, inpatient, and higher-acuity settings. Our approach looks beyond behavior alone and addresses the emotional, relational, and stress-based patterns that often sustain substance use. Clients receive thoughtful, nonjudgmental care focused on stability, insight, and long-term change.

Our clinicians use CBT as a practical, flexible framework to help clients understand how thoughts, behaviors, and emotional responses interact under pressure. CBT at LLS Therapies is individualized — not rigid — and focused on helping clients manage anxiety, reduce reactivity, and build sustainable coping strategies while still feeling deeply understood.

Psychodynamic work is central to our practice. We help clients explore the deeper patterns shaping relationships, self-expectations, attachment styles, and emotional responses. This approach is especially effective for high-functioning individuals and couples who want insight, clarity, and lasting change not just symptom management.

Our clinicians use CBT as a practical, flexible framework to help clients understand how thoughts, behaviors, and emotional responses interact under pressure. CBT at LLS Therapies is individualized, not rigid and focused on helping clients manage anxiety, reduce reactivity, and build sustainable coping strategies while still feeling deeply understood.

Psychodynamic work is central to our practice. We help clients explore the deeper patterns shaping relationships, self-expectations, attachment styles, and emotional responses. This approach is especially effective for high-functioning individuals and couples who want insight, clarity, and lasting change not just symptom management.

At LLS Therapies, our clinicians have experience working with substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns across outpatient, inpatient, and higher-acuity settings. Our approach looks beyond behavior alone and addresses the emotional, relational, and stress-based patterns that often sustain substance use. Clients receive thoughtful, nonjudgmental care focused on stability, insight, and long-term change.

Many of the clients we work with are highly capable, insightful people who struggle with closeness, trust, or emotional safety; often without realizing attachment patterns are at play. We help clients understand how early relational experiences shape current relationships, stress responses, and self-expectations. Our work focuses on building emotional awareness, healthier boundaries, and secure connection both with others and with yourself.

We support clients whose anxiety shows up beneath competence, responsibility, and high expectations. This may look like chronic overthinking, perfectionism, emotional shutdown, people-pleasing, or constant internal pressure to “hold it together.” Our approach helps clients understand anxiety through both a nervous-system and relational lens, offering tools for regulation, insight, and long-term relief not just symptom management.

We work with couples navigating emotional distance, miscommunication, and the strain that ambition, stress, or life transitions can place on a relationship. Many of the couples we see are deeply committed but stuck in patterns they don’t know how to shift. Our work focuses on strengthening emotional safety, improving communication, and helping partners reconnect beyond roles, routines, and silent resentment.

Many of the clients we work with are highly capable, insightful people who struggle with closeness, trust, or emotional safety; often without realizing attachment patterns are at play. We help clients understand how early relational experiences shape current relationships, stress responses, and self-expectations. Our work focuses on building emotional awareness, healthier boundaries, and secure connection both with others and with yourself.