Ramona Leonards, LPC

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 30 years of experience, Ramona Leonards focuses on stress, anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, grief, LGBT issues, parenting and relationship struggles. She has worked in community mental health settings in San Antonio and with underserved populations. Sessions address practical problems and emotional responses rather than labels alone.

Ramona has worked with children, adolescents, young adults, and adults in non-profit and agency environments. She has experience supporting people after physical trauma or emotional abuse and with gender identity questions. She has also helped people on the autism spectrum as they move toward adulthood and greater independence.

Her practice combines client-centered ways of working with cognitive behavioral ideas, emotionally-focused techniques, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies. In practice that means listening first, then using conversational exercises, thought-focused strategies, and brief goal-oriented steps to reduce distress and build coping skills.

Sessions are conversational and interactive. Ramona emphasizes respect and direct talk about what is and isn’t working. She focuses on concrete changes clients can try between meetings as well as on feelings that come up in the room.

People who contact her can expect straightforward discussion about goals, realistic steps, and follow-up. The work often covers grief, relationship patterns, parenting challenges, self-esteem, bipolar and other mood issues, and coping with major life changes. She also addresses compassion fatigue and responses to disasters and loss.

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