About Ramona
Ramona Leonards is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with 30 years of experience in community mental health in Texas. She offers a warm, interactive style that centers on the person rather than a diagnosis. Ramona aims to make hard conversations feel manageable and to help people move toward practical goals.
Ramona blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused methods. She often uses mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to help people notice patterns, manage stress, and try small changes that add up.
How Ramona works
Sessions focus on clear steps and on understanding emotions behind behaviors. Her experience includes work in nonprofit community settings with under-served populations. She has supported people dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, grief, and stress.
She has also worked with people navigating gender identity and LGBT issues, and with individuals on the autism spectrum facing transitions to greater independence. Ramona offers practical help for parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar and mood disorders, and coping with life changes. Additional areas she addresses include post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and abuse, seasonal affective disorder, and compassion fatigue.
She emphasizes respect and compassion in every interaction. Her sessions are tailored to each person’s needs with a collaborative treatment plan. Ramona encourages people to take small, manageable steps toward their goals and supports them through setbacks and progress.
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What Ramona works with
The areas below are the ones Ramona selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace to build trust and clarity. It helps people who need a supportive space to sort out feelings and decide what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with practical alternatives; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and shifting emotional responses to improve how people relate to their own feelings and to others.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan based on what works in real sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be a good option when lower bandwidth or not being on camera helps, and chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins or brief coping reminders between longer sessions. These formats offer flexibility to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and family life.
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