Lee Schlanger, LMHC

Lee Schlanger is a Florida LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor with five years of experience. He works with adults facing stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, depression, relationship and family difficulties, and codependency concerns. He also supports people managing parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and life changes.

Lee begins sessions by focusing on the most pressing problem. He aims to build a working connection and to help clients name what feels difficult. Sessions move toward sorting feelings, identifying patterns, and finding practical steps a person can try between meetings. Conversations are direct and oriented to change rather than long lectures.

His work draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current reactions. He uses client-centered techniques to listen and reflect, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools to test thoughts and habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and Emotionally-Focused Therapy concepts appear when emotion regulation or relationship interactions are a focus.

Lee has experience supporting people through trauma, substance use recovery, grief, and parenting strain. He also helps with issues such as abandonment, communication problems, control issues, and family-of-origin struggles. He accepts clients from outside the U.S. and conducts sessions out of Florida.

Practical steps are a common part of work with him: small behavior changes, skill practice, and clearer communication strategies. He asks clients to try concrete experiments between sessions and then reviews what worked and what did not.

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