About Leland
Leland Baker is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of professional experience. He holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and practices in Missouri. Leland centers his work on helping people move through difficult moments and find practical ways to cope.
Leland believes each person knows their own story. He looks for strengths a person already has and helps them build new skills from that starting point. Sessions focus on clear goals and steady progress rather than jargon or long theories.
How Leland works
His day-to-day work has covered grief and loss, anger, depression, and stress. He also helps people facing addictions, sleep problems, career strain, and challenges with self-esteem. Relationship and family concerns, parenting stresses, and coping with life changes are other common topics.
Leland draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral ideas to make thoughts and actions feel more manageable. He also uses solution-focused strategies to set concrete next steps and internal family systems ideas to look at different parts of a persons inner experience. These approaches are used in straightforward, practical ways.
People who come to him often want a direct, collaborative style. He supports coaching goals and offers help for compassion fatigue, ADHD, and a range of attachment or caregiver issues. His aim is to help people find workable changes they can keep using after sessions end.
Leland lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Leland works with
The areas below are the ones Leland selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How Leland's Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on a person's own strengths. It helps people feel heard and guides them toward choices that feel right. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers practical tools for changing those patterns to reduce depression, anxiety, or stress.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify goals, try approaches that fit those goals, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful to the person in sessions.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from anywhere while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer brief, flexible ways to touch base between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to keep momentum as goals are pursued.
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