Therapist · Speaker · Author

You fix for everyone.
But who's fixing you?

You're the one everyone counts on. At work, at home, at every family holiday. You hold it together so other people can fall apart. And quietly, you're the one running out.

The most emotionally attuned people, the ones who read every room, are often the worst at reading themselves. Twenty plus years in clinical practice, seventy-one speaking engagements last year, and one D1 athlete's conviction that the hardest work is the reps nobody sees.

This is a space to exhale, recalibrate, and be supported for a change.

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Signature talks

What I speak about,
and who it's for.

HR · L&D · Sales Teams · People Leaders · Educators

Beyond the Grind

Employee mental health and the leader's role. How to recognize shifts, respond well, and stop over-functioning on behalf of your team.

Executives · Conferences · Leadership

Are You a Serial Fixer?

Based on the book. For high performers who built their careers on being the one who handles it and are starting to feel the cost. The clinical case for stopping before it stops you.

Executives · Conferences · Healthcare · Educators

The Root Work

Boundaries, recovery, and real self-care. The clinical foundation under the trend language, for people who are tired of wellness theater.

Educators · Athletes · Healthcare · Nonprofits

Reframing Resilience

Navigating transitions, building sustainable energy, and reconnecting with what matters. Grit without toxic positivity, for people whose recovery has started to feel like another performance.

From the room

What leaders say after the room empties.

Leah's session on boundaries was a turning point for our leadership team. She made complex psychological concepts feel immediately actionable. Our team still references her frameworks months later.

Director of People & Culture

Red Ventures

I, and everyone I spoke with, found your speech to be engaging, informative, and helpful. I have never seen this group so enthused about a wellness speaker.

General Law Division

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Leah has a way of explaining mental health that everyone can relate to. We all left feeling energized and more self-aware. We will definitely invite her back.

VP of Community Impact

American Heart Association

The book

Free yourself from the need to fix to feel worthy.

Serial Fixer — Break Free From the Habit of Solving Other People's Problems

For the high achievers, caregivers, and helpers who have confused worthiness with the need to fix, and are exhausted from carrying everyone else. Clear about why fixing feels like love and isn't. Practical about what to do instead.

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Meet Leah

I grew up on a basketball court.

I played D1. I know what it means to push past your limit because stopping feels like failure. I became a therapist because I saw that pattern everywhere: in high performers, caregivers, leaders, athletes. The ones who give the most and ask for the least.

Most of the people I work with are stuck in a role they never agreed to: the fixer, the strong one, the person everyone leans on. The boundaries that should protect them get replaced by patterns that quietly lead to overextension, resentment, and cyclical exhaustion. My work is about naming those patterns and building something that actually holds.

LCSW D1 Athlete TEDx Speaker Author

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You fix for everyone.But who's fixing you?

What I speak about,and who it's for.