Lea Jones

Therapist

LCSW-C, LICSW

Lea supports clients in recognizing stuck emotional patterns, reclaiming their strengths, and moving through life’s challenges with clarity, confidence, and care. She offers trauma-informed, strengths-based therapy for adults navigating grief, anxiety, depression, parenting stress, and the lingering impact of childhood wounds.

A Warm, Experienced Therapist for Trauma, Grief, Anxiety, and Life Transitions

If you’re feeling weighed down by anxiety, loss, or old emotional wounds that never quite healed, Lea offers a safe and steady presence to help you move forward. Known for her warmth, depth, and attunement, Lea meets clients where they are—offering both insight and practical support to help them reconnect with their goals, values, and sense of self.

Lea works with adults who are experiencing grief and loss, unresolved trauma from childhood, mood disorders, and family or parenting challenges. With years of experience and a deeply relational style, she creates an affirming space where clients feel seen, supported, and empowered to make meaningful change.

Clinical Focus

Many of the individuals Lea works with come to therapy feeling overwhelmed by past experiences or patterns they no longer want to carry. Whether navigating anxiety, depression, or emotional fallout from early relational trauma, Lea helps clients explore their inner world with compassion and curiosity—making space for healing, integration, and forward movement.

Grief is a central part of Lea’s work, including both traditional loss and more complex, ambiguous grief such as estrangement, miscarriage, or the loss of identity through major life shifts. She guides clients through mourning in a way that is human, non-linear, and deeply personal—while helping them uncover sources of strength and resilience.

Lea also specializes in working with parents and caregivers who feel depleted, stuck, or reactive. She supports them in identifying emotional triggers, breaking intergenerational patterns, and rebuilding connection—offering concrete tools for regulation and communication, alongside space to process their own emotional needs.

Therapeutic Approach

Lea’s approach is grounded in collaboration, relational depth, and clinical flexibility. She views therapy as a shared space where clients can safely explore the parts of themselves that have long been ignored, hidden, or misunderstood. Her sessions are guided by the belief that emotional change happens in connection—not in isolation.

Clinically, Lea draws from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness, somatic awareness, trauma-informed care, and inner child work. She adapts her interventions to each client’s goals, history, and nervous system—ensuring that the work is effective, respectful, and paced just right.

At the heart of Lea’s practice is a commitment to honoring the full humanity of her clients. She brings a calm, attuned energy to the therapeutic relationship and works with each person to build a space where growth feels possible and sustainable.

Background, Education & Experience

Lea earned her Master’s degree in Social Work and holds clinical licensure in both Maryland (LCSW-C) and Washington, D.C. (LICSW). She has extensive experience in both private practice and community mental health settings, with a clinical focus on trauma recovery, grief and loss, mood disorders, and parenting-related stress. She provides virtual therapy to make high-quality, emotionally attuned care accessible across the region.

Lea Is Licensed to Serve Clients in Maryland and Washington, D.C., & Is In-Network with Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS), CareFirst, Cigna & Evernorth

Maryland Licensed Certified Social Worker–Clinical (LCSW-C – #18138)
Washington, D.C. Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW – #LC200004045)

Lea Specializes in:

Grief & Loss Therapy: Supporting adults through all types of grief, including the death of a loved one, pet loss, ambiguous grief, and major identity shifts. Lea helps clients move through the mourning process with emotional validation, structure, and meaning-making.
Childhood Trauma & Attachment Wounds: Providing trauma-informed therapy to help clients process early relational wounds, build self-trust, and break free from long-held emotional patterns rooted in the past.
Therapy for Anxiety & Depression: Offering individualized support for managing chronic worry, intrusive thoughts, low mood, fatigue, and hopelessness using CBT, mindfulness, and emotional regulation strategies.
Parenting Stress & Family Dynamics: Helping overwhelmed parents and caregivers manage emotional burnout, navigate difficult family roles, and develop healthier, more attuned relationships with their children and partners.
Life Transitions & Identity Changes: Supporting clients through major life shifts such as divorce, career changes, relocation, becoming a parent, or adjusting to a new phase of adulthood or aging.
Emotional Regulation & Coping Skills: Teaching clients to better understand and manage strong emotions, reduce reactivity, and develop healthier patterns of responding to stress or conflict.
Self-Worth & Inner Critic Work: Helping individuals shift from self-judgment to self-compassion, particularly those carrying inner shame or struggling with people-pleasing, perfectionism, or low self-esteem.
Stress Management & Burnout Recovery: Supporting clients who feel overwhelmed by daily responsibilities, caregiving, or professional stressors. Lea helps clients reconnect to their boundaries, values, and sources of joy.
Relationship Issues & Interpersonal Conflict: Working with individuals to improve communication, navigate relational anxiety, set healthier boundaries, and heal attachment wounds from past or current relationships.

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