About Leonard
Dr. Leonard Anders is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, sleep trouble, low self-esteem, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. He writes in straightforward language and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
He frames therapy as a partnership and encourages clients to use their own strengths during change. With 25 years of experience, Dr. Anders draws on a mix of approaches to fit different needs.
Background and approach
He often uses client-centered work to listen and reflect what matters most to the person in front of him. He also uses motivational interviewing to help people find reasons to change and solution-focused ideas to identify small, useful steps.
He has worked with people facing grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction and process addictions, anger, career concerns, and compassion fatigue. He also supports people dealing with phobias, panic, post-traumatic stress, and seasonal affective disorder. His practice includes attention to personality-related patterns such as avoidant and antisocial features when those are relevant to a person’s goals.
In sessions he helps people talk through control issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and life transitions like midlife shifts or end-of-life matters. He emphasizes clear goals and regular check-ins so progress is easy to see. He aims to be a steady guide while clients test new habits and ways of thinking.
Dr. Anders holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential, LPC, and practices in Georgia. He works in plain language and focuses on realistic, manageable changes for daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, helps clarify goals, and supports growth through the client's own strengths and choices. Motivational interviewing is used to help people resolve ambivalence about change; it highlights personal reasons for change and builds motivation one step at a time. Trauma-focused therapy addresses the effects of past traumatic events through careful processing and coping skills aimed at reducing unwanted symptoms and improving daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Dr. Anders will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Sessions can shift over time as goals change, so the work adapts to what proves most helpful for the individual.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for short check-ins, sharing updates between sessions, or people who prefer typing over talking. These options help clients fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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