Our Team & Approach

LLS therapies was founded to bring together exceptional clinicians who specialize in working with high-achieving, high-insight individuals.
Many people reach out unsure which clinician is the right fit or whether they’re ready for therapy at all. During a brief 7 private, 1:1 Discovery Call we’ll help you think through what you’re looking for and thoughtfully guide you to the clinician best suited to your needs.
Each provider here is more than simply qualified. We’ve been selected for our ability to hold complex stories with clarity, discretion, and clinical depth. While our approaches differ, we share a single commitment: helping clients move beyond performance and survival into genuine emotional alignment.

Leanna Lee-Sydnor, LCSW, Owner

Founder | Psychotherapist for High-Achieving, Emotionally Guarded Clients

I work with individuals who are outwardly composed and inwardly disconnected. My clients are high-functioning professionals, deep thinkers, and relationally reserved individuals who have learned to rely on logic, independence, and control but are beginning to feel the quiet cost of emotional distance.

In our work, I offer a calm, highly structured space where insight emerges without pressure, and self-protection is respected not pathologized. My approach blends psychodynamic depth, attachment-focused exploration, and CBT-informed clarity. We move at a deliberate, sustainable pace to build trust, emotional fluency, and internal coherence.

Clients often come to me after years of self-management. They aren’t looking to fall apart. They’re ready to understand themselves more deeply, connect more honestly, and evolve without losing what makes them strong.

If you're high-functioning but quietly stuck, this work is designed for you.

Socorro Braganca, LMHC-D

Therapist for High-Functioning Professionals in Transition

Success often comes with a silent cost. I work with high-achieving individuals,professionals, couples, academics, and founders who are navigating the tension between external success and internal strain.

With dual graduate degrees in Mental Health Counseling and Spirituality, my work blends deep emotional insight with value based alignment and clinical rigor. Clients come to me when high-functioning starts to mask burnout, imposter syndrome, or disconnection.

I specialize in helping professionals move through personal and professional crossroads with clarity and integrity. Our work is goal-oriented, discreet, and emotionally precise rooted in cultural humility and a deep respect for your lived experience.

If you’re successful on paper but struggling to feel it in your body and relationships, this space is designed for you.

Trained in evidence-based approaches like CBT and DBT, I integrate structure with insight to support sustainable change.

Alison Loewy, LCSW

Therapist for High-Achieving Women, College Students, and Adolescents Under Pressure

I work with people who carry a lot quietly. My clients are high functioning on the outside, but inside they’re holding exhaustion, emotional pain, and patterns they no longer want to repeat.

I specialize in supporting high-achieving women especially, mothers who are navigating burnout, perfectionism, and the emotional weight of caring for others while neglecting themselves. I also work with college students and adolescents in high pressure environments, including boarding schools, who are trying to define themselves, manage expectations, and cope with overwhelming emotions.

With over a decade of experience, my approach is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and gender-affirming. I help clients connect past experiences to present challenges while building the self-understanding, boundaries, and emotional clarity needed for lasting change.

This is a space for people who are ready to stop performing and start feeling for themselves.

Kollettia Kelly, LPC

Therapist for High Performers Navigating Burnout, Anxiety, and Substance Use

I work with high-achieving professionals, executives, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders who are outwardly successful but privately struggling with burnout, anxiety, or substance use. With a background in banking, I understand the pressure to perform, the fear of losing control, and the ways that success can mask distress.

Many of my clients feel stuck. They’re managing deadlines, leading teams, or running businesses while quietly coping with stress through overworking, emotional withdrawal, or unhealthy coping strategies. In therapy, we create space to slow down, examine the emotional toll of high performance, and develop tools to reclaim your energy, focus, and sense of self.

I bring deep experience working in outpatient substance abuse programs, supporting clients navigating co-occurring challenges. My style is structured, nonjudgmental, and focused on long-term, sustainable change. I integrate CBT, DBT, and psychodynamic therapy to meet you where you are whether you need practical tools, emotional insight, or a space to feel seen.

Sessions are available in-person in Greenwich, CT or via telehealth, with flexible scheduling designed for busy professionals.

Danielle Provino, LCSW

Head Facilitator | Clinical Director | Educator for High-Achieving Communities

Danielle Provino is a licensed clinical social worker, educator, and Clinical Director with nearly two decades of experience supporting children, adolescents, families, and professionals across educational and mental health settings. As Head Facilitator at LLS Therapies, she leads custom workshops for boarding school communities, colleges, and corporate teams, bringing together psychological insight, emotional intelligence, and real-world strategy.

Danielle’s background includes years of teaching in NYC public schools and clinical leadership in multidisciplinary treatment settings. Her experience as both a classroom educator and a psychotherapist gives her a unique ability to engage high-achieving students, guide faculty through emotionally intelligent leadership, and support teams navigating stress, performance pressure, and burnout.

She has developed and facilitated trainings for staff, supervised MSW and MHC interns, and led DBT-based groups for both youth and adults. Intensively trained in DBT, trauma-focused CBT, and child-parent psychotherapy, Danielle combines structure with warmth to create emotionally grounded learning spaces where insight can lead to action.

She currently serves as Clinical Director at a group practice in New York and offers in-person and virtual workshops through LLS Therapies often co-facilitated by Leanna Lee-Sydnor or other senior clinicians.

Anne Shields, LCSW-R

Therapist for High Achievers, Parents, and Families Under Pressure

I work with high-functioning individuals, couples, and families navigating the quiet toll of stress, performance pressure, and emotional disconnection. My clients often appear composed while managing careers, caregiving, or complex family systems yet feel emotionally overwhelmed, stuck, or unsupported.

With over 20 years of experience across schools, hospitals, and behavioral health settings, I’ve helped people move through anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, ADHD, ASD, and addiction recovery. I support both individuals and systems: whether you’re a parent trying to hold everyone together, or a high-achiever struggling to connect, I offer a compassionate and structured space to build resilience from the inside out.

I use evidence based approaches like CBT and Solution-Focused Therapy to guide our work, but I also bring a grounded, collaborative presence that meets you where you are. Together, we’ll clarify what’s working, shift what’s not, and create strategies to support your emotional well-being at home, at work, and within yourself.

Elizabeth McKee, LCSW

Grounded Support for High Achievers, Families, and Individuals Facing Life’s Most Demanding Seasons

Therapist for High Achievers, Parents, and Families Under Pressure

With over 40 years of experience, Elizabeth McKee brings a calm, steady presence to clients navigating stress, grief, family strain, burnout, or the quiet toll of always being the strong one. She is especially attuned to high-functioning individuals. Those who appear capable and composed on the outside, yet carry an invisible weight of pressure, expectation, and emotional exhaustion.

Elizabeth’s background spans schools, hospice care, addiction treatment, and private practice. Whether working with a parent juggling everything, a professional feeling isolated at the top, or a student struggling to keep up appearances, Elizabeth offers a safe, judgment-free space to explore what’s beneath the surface. Her approach is thoughtful, practical, and supportive, grounded in evidence-based modalities like CBT, DBT, and systems theory.

High achievers often struggle to give themselves permission to pause, feel, and ask for help. Elizabeth offers therapy that honors both your competence and your complexity, helping you reconnect to what matters most, without having to perform or prove a thing.

She currently offers both telehealth and in-person sessions in Washington, CT.

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