About Leonard
Leonard Burns is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with 35 years of clinical experience. He helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, struggling with addictions, or managing ADHD. He also works with those facing relationship and intimacy issues, sleep struggles, low self-esteem, and life transitions.
He uses straightforward, humane care. Sessions focus on building a trusting working relationship first. From that place, he and the client talk through patterns that keep problems going and try new ways of handling daily challenges.
Background and approach
Leonard draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-focused work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral ideas, and existential perspectives. He combines these to match what each person needs rather than following a single formula. His practice includes people dealing with trauma and abuse, complex grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and issues tied to identity and social challenge.
He also helps with anger, codependency, and dissociation when those problems interfere with daily life. Clients can expect calm, direct guidance and practical tools alongside reflective conversation. Leonard emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and stays present with clients through difficult steps.
He practices in California and conducts sessions in English.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take action toward them, even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, depression, and trouble staying focused on what matters. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and aims to create more supported, reliable ways of relating and managing emotions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leonard will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and personal style. He mixes practical tools and reflective conversation and adjusts the plan as progress and challenges emerge.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can help with quick check-ins between sessions or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and maintain momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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