AnnLee Allen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with KDM Counseling Group. She began her education at Auburn University earning her Bachelors in Communications followed by obtaining a Masters Degree in Professional Counseling from Liberty University.

Following a lifelong dream and passion for helping others through difficult times, AnnLee mentored several groups of college aged women through the college experience and graduation. Next, she began a rewarding and challenging experience counseling families and children during pre and post adoptions from the foster care system. Through this experience, AnnLee developed skills working with children, adolescents, and parents navigating through trauma, life changes, and understanding difficult behaviors.

All along AnnLee was shaping and developing her true focus: marriage counseling, conflict resolution, counseling children during parental conflict/divorce, and most importantly assisting women during transitions. Marital difficulties and divorce are highly traumatic and many individuals replace healthy thoughts, behaviors, and routines with unhealthy behaviors rooted in survival mode.

AnnLee specializes in assisting women work on themselves, manage grief, fear, and loss, and reducing shame and bitterness while moving to a renewed sense of strength and hope. Additionally, she helps children through divorce or parental conflict by providing them a safe space for their private thoughts and worries. AnnLee works to equip kids with healthy coping skills to utilize in stressful and confusing situations.

AnnLee’s 17 year marriage and being a mother of a son gives her a unique perspective on the challenges women face balancing motherhood, marriage, and career.

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Michael Anthony is a Registered Clinical Social Worker Intern, born and raised in Elmira, NY. While in New York, Michael earned a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Psychology from Keuka College in 2010 and utilized his passion for helping others in Group Homes and as a Job Coach for individuals with developmental disabilities.

In 2011, Michael relocated to sunny Saint Petersburg and continued to work in community based mental health as a Child Safety Case Manager and Client Intake Assessor. Due to his excitement about the mental health field, Michael returned to school and gained his Master of Social Work from Fordham University.

Michael’s strengths lie in his genuine, approachable demeanor and empathetic style. He knew relationship therapy was a calling by the vast number of friends and family members reaching out to him during their own relationship hardships. Michael truly feels passionate about offering his services in a warm and understanding manner.

When not working, Michael enjoys going on adventures with his wife, playing music, and teaching martial arts. The latter has led him to study Eastern and Spiritual philosophies that can be applied to daily living and relationship empowerment. Michael strengthened his peacekeeping and conflict-resolution skills while playing in a touring band!

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Licensed Certified School Psychologist

Leila Daugherty is a Licensed Certified School Psychologist. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Indiana University and her Education Specialist Degree in Child, Family, and School Psychology from the University of Denver.

Leila’s philosophy is that all people have the right to their fullest potential and access to an education despite challenges. She primarily works with children and adolescents by evaluating their strengths and needs using a comprehensive and solution focused model. She has over a decade of experience providing psychoeducational evaluations to identify giftedness, learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury and intellectual disabilities.

As a parent of two boys and spouse to a 27-year Veteran from the Army Special Forces, Leila understands the challenges that come with military lifestyle, and the impact on the family. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband, children, and new puppy. During her free time, she loves running, traveling, reading, and boating.

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Angela is a Registered Marriage and Family therapist that is passionate about working with couples in all stages of their romantic relationships from dating to marriage. In a session with her, you can expect theoretical influences from Gottman Therapy and Emotions-Focused Therapy. Angela believes therapeutic change occurs when clients are invested in their growth, open to honest conversations, and committed to the therapeutic process.

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Laura Leveridge is Clinical Mental Health Intern who was born in Dallas, TX and raised in the Greater Tampa Bay Area. Laura obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from The University of Tampa and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Wake Forest University.

Laura had a passion for helping others from a young age and knew very early on in her higher education experience that she was called to pursue counseling as a career. Coming from a blended family, Laura has interest and compassion for working couples and families. In her free time, you can find Laura taking her fur baby Graham on walks along Bayshore, trying a new restaurant, traveling with her family, in the pilates studio or watching the sunset on the beach with her close friends.

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Marriage and Family Therapist

Amy L’Heureux (La-roo) currently resides in Tampa, Florida with her husband, Raymond (Lt. Col. USMC), daughters Evelyn and Amelia, and German Shepherd, Jibber.

Hailing originally from Philadelphia, Amy received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia while being a member of the Division 1 Field Hockey team. She earned her Master’s in Education from University of Arizona and has taught around the globe for the past thirteen years.

Amy decided to further her passion of helping people and enrolled at Wake Forest University to obtain a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She is due to graduate in the Fall of 2023 and will be garnering experience in marriage and family therapy at KDM Counseling Group.

In her free time, Amy can be found at a CrossFit Gym or in the kitchen baking French macarons.

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Jess Lowe serves as our Client Coordinator and Grief Coach. She was born and raised in Houston, TX, but later moved to Spanish Fort, Alabama where she has called home for years.

With a passion for helping people, Jess wanted a career where she could continue to assist those she encounters. With her experience as a business owner and over a decade working in administration, she decided to use these skills in a field which serves to improve the lives and well-being of others. Often the first person to make contact with our clients, Jess is excited to make a difference and assist them in obtaining the services they need. She’ll be sure to greet you with a smile you can hear!

Jess is also our on staff Grief Coach. She is certified in Grief Coaching through the Institute of Professional Grief Coaching. Having experienced tremendous loss herself, Jess wanted to share the information and tools she has learned by helping others along their grief journeys.

When not working, Jess loves traveling with her husband. She is passionate about animals, and is the proud dog mama to her long haired chihuahua, Hazel. She also loves trying and cooking new foods, organizational design, reading, and live music.

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KathyDan Moore is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator, Qualified Parenting Coordinator, Divorce Counselor, Certified Premarital Counseling Facilitator, and trained Collaborative Divorce Neutral Facilitator. She specializes in treating couples and individuals with relationship dilemmas.

Working in the mental health field for the past 16 years, her practice has expanded to include a variety of settings including clinics, homes, schools, non-profit organizations, private practice, and as Clinical Director at a community mental health facility. KathyDan has a unique approach to therapy which includes intuition, compassion, sense of humor, optimism, and collaboration. She specializes in treating trauma, anxiety and depression, as well as a focus on couples therapy, affair recovery, breakup and divorce, parenting, postpartum concerns, and the complex issues of joint custody and blended families.

Being a wife and mother of two children and four bonus children, KathyDan has a deep understanding of what it takes to balance these roles, while taking care to remember it’s important to still fulfill your life’s potential. She has always been passionate about helping others to regain charge of their life, guiding individual clients and families even in the toughest times. As a result, she has a high standard of practice, which in turn allows her clients to get the best quality of personalized services.

KathyDan began her journey with a Bachelor’s degree from Tulane University in Communications and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology with a specialty in Marriage and Family Therapy from Antioch University in Los Angeles, California. Before becoming a therapist in St. Petersburg and creating KDM Counseling Group, she worked in marketing and television production and is certified in Level 1 and 2 of Gottman Method Couples Therapy.

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Jenna Rae is a Registered Clinical Social Work Intern and trained Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist. Growing up in Running Springs, a small mountain town in Southern California, Jenna Rae went on to obtain her master’s in social work from Columbia University.

On the weekends, Jenna Rae would visit her father who lived in Newport Beach, CA. This upbringing instilled a deep love for the ocean! At the age of 20, she moved to the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, and was introduced to the profound healing effects of yoga. For the past 14 years she has taught yoga, mindfulness, meditation, and sound therapy. Experiencing the significant benefits of these practices on her own mental health is what inspired her to become a therapist.

In Jenna Rae’s practice she incorporates the therapeutic techniques of Trauma Informed Care, Internal Family Systems, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Gottman Couples Therapy, and the intuition gained from her own healing of childhood trauma. She believes that post traumatic growth is possible when given the right tools, resources, and compassionate understanding.

When Jenna Rae has free time, she is often creating music, capturing photographs, making jewelry, summiting a mountain, or catching waves. Her rescue pup Athena is always along for the adventure!

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