Leigh Ledare, MFA
LP Candidate
Leigh Ledare received his MFA from Columbia University, where in addition to visual art he studied anthropology and cultural theory before establishing a significant career as an artist, filmmaker and educator. Leigh is currently completing his psychoanalytic training at Pulsion Institute and works as a psychoanalytic therapist at Rose Hill.
Welcoming adults and adolescents from all backgrounds and identities, Leigh specializes in addressing issues ranging from trauma, depression and anxiety to difficulties with creativity, interpersonal relationships and sexuality. Mindful that our symptoms serve as a locus between the dilemmas of the psyche and its relation to the social and cultural contexts in which we live, Leigh prioritizes a nonjudgmental therapeutic approach in which the individual’s unique circumstances, thoughts, feelings and desires – from the most uncomfortable to those that are pleasurable – can be safely explored in their full depth and complexity.
It is through careful attunement to the features of what is said – and to unconscious messages conveyed via dreams, repetitions, fantasies and fears – that Leigh helps his patients arrive at revelations that are their own: transforming quandaries that hinder the capacity to cope into insights that allow for a re-authoring of patterns that previously seemed inalterable.