Leigh Foster, CT

Leigh Foster (pronouns: she/her) is a counselor trainee who works with children and adults. Her specialty interests include anxiety, depression, girl’s and women’s issues, and career development. She draws from evidence-based approaches to create a supportive, individualized experience for each client.

Leigh completed her advanced education at Houghton University, earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She is currently a master’s student at Indiana Wesleyan University completing a degree in clinical mental health counseling. Her academic coursework spans psychopathology, multicultural counseling, career counseling, group counseling, and the foundations of clinical mental health, with additional exposure to the intersection of creativity and healing through coursework in art therapy. She has a clear passion for lifelong learning and believes that growing as a person and a professional are inseparable. She aspires toward specialized certifications in women’s healthcare including perinatal and perimenopausal care.

Prior to private practice, Leigh gained meaningful hands-on experience as a direct support professional with Advocates Inc., where she worked with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, supporting daily living, independence, and adaptive communication.

She has furthered her clinical training through a trauma-informed approaches certification through the New York State Trauma-Informed Network. These experiences have deepened her commitment to meeting each client with patience, adaptability, and care.

Leigh’s approach to counseling is rooted in the belief that much of human pain stems from low internal consistency, whether that’s a drift between who we are and how we’re living, or the toll of being in relationships with people whose words and actions don’t match. She’s drawn to helping people notice that gap and get curious about it, rather than just pushing through it. In her view, feeling better isn’t always about doing more – sometimes it’s about doing less of what doesn’t fit. She utilizes evidence-based therapeutic approaches from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), motivational interviewing (MI), and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

Leigh’s strengths include: emotional and social intelligence, encouragement, generosity, and the kind of fairness that makes honesty feel like an act of care rather than a critique.