About Leonard
Leonard Uchendu offers direct, straightforward support for people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck. He meets individuals where they are and helps them untangle daily stress, anxiety, grief, or difficulty with sleeping and eating. Leonard is clear and practical in sessions, guiding clients toward small, doable changes.
He has eight years of experience as a licensed social worker in Michigan and holds LMSW, LCSW, and CSW credentials. Leonard uses several evidence-based approaches depending on the person’s needs.
How Leonard works
Sessions aim to build coping skills, improve emotion regulation, and clarify values so choices feel more manageable. In practice he draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. He also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help clients live in line with what matters to them.
Attachment-based and client-centered methods shape how he helps people examine relationship patterns and feel heard during sessions. Leonard works with a broad set of concerns including addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, anger, intimacy-related and relationship issues. He also focuses on areas like abandonment, caregiver stress, body image, codependency, and blended family challenges.
That range allows him to tailor interventions to the situation presented. Sessions move at a practical pace with teachable skills and concrete steps between meetings. Leonard encourages clear goals and regular check-ins so progress is visible.
Those who want steady, skill-focused work with an empathetic clinician may find his style a good fit.
Leonard lists 19 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Leonard works with
The areas below are the ones Leonard selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMSW, LCSW, CSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are strong. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep someone stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that maintain distress; it is practical for sleep problems, low mood, and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help with intimacy-related issues and communication difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Leonard will discuss goals, try methods that fit the situation, and adjust plans as progress is made. That collaborative process helps ensure therapy matches the person’s needs and preferences rather than following a fixed recipe.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session or visual cues help. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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