Team members

Vanessa Batiste-Leal, PLPC
School Counselor
Vanessa is a PLPC, as well as a Licensed and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor, who has over five years of experience in counseling. She earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Marketing & Management from the University of Louisiana at Monroe and her Master of Health Science Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Louisiana StateUniversity Health Sciences Center.Vanessa has experience providing therapy to children, adolescents, and adults with behavioral, mental health, and physical disabilities. Vanessa has worked in private rehabilitation where she gained experience in case management, vocational rehabilitation assessment, testing, labor market research, wage and earning capacity analysis, and life care planning. She is passionate about being of service to those in need and works within person-centered and cognitive behavioral therapy, play therapy, and career counseling. She believes in determining alternative life choices through assessment of goal setting, teaching life skills, and placing individuals with and without disabilities into a self-advocating, goal setting path. Contact me about mental, social, emotional, & behavioral health.
Contact
- 504.330.0706
- vbatisteleal@livingschoolnola.org