Lee Schlanger is a Florida State Licensed Mental Health Counselor currently living Sarasota, FL by way of New York City, NY. Lee has a passion for animals and doing anything outdoors, and is an avid sports fan. Lee has been working as a Mental Health Counselor since the beginning of 2017. Lee specializes in working with clients who are experiencing anxiety and depression as well as specializes in working with clients who have undergone grief, loss, and traumatic events, as well as substance abuse recovery, anger management counseling, and more. In addition, Lee has experience working couples in conflict, and experience with Marriage and family counseling. Lee is also a Board Certified Tele-Mental Health Provider and specializes in Telehealth sessions.
Lee's style is extremely warm and inviting. A session with him begins with the main goal of connecting and addressing your primary symptoms. Through a supportive, collaborative connection, Lee will with work you to work through your distressful feelings and to find the root cause of your discomforts. Lee believes that healing happens through emotional processing and true connection. Lee is helpful, non-judgmental and believes in holding his clients in the highest positive regard at all times.
While Lee will never promise a cure, he will always promise a wonderful, counseling relationship based on mutual trust, respect, collaboration and validation.
Additional areas of focus: Relationship issues, Family conflicts, Intimacy-related issues, Parenting issues, Anger management, Self esteem, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Coaching, Compassion fatigue, ADHD, Abandonment, Attachment issues, Body image, Caregiver issues and stress, Co-morbidity, Codependency, Commitment issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Dissociation, Domestic violence, Drug and alcohol addiction, Family of origin issues, Family problems, Fatherhood issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Intellectual disability, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Men's issues, Money and financial issues, Mood disorders, Multicultural concerns, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling), Self-harm, Self-love, Sex addiction, Sexual assault and abuse, Sexual dysfunction, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization, Traumatic brain injury, Workplace issues
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Somatic Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
FL LMHC MH18548