About Ramona
Ramona Leonards is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 30 years of experience in community mental health to her work. She focuses on listening first and helping people find practical ways forward. Her style is warm and interactive and she aims to treat each person with compassion and respect.
She has worked in nonprofit community agencies in Texas, often with under-served groups. That background means she is used to supporting people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and parenting or relationship strain.
Background and approach
She has also worked with people dealing with gender identity and LGBT concerns and with adults on the autism spectrum who are navigating the move to independence. Sessions emphasize everyday skills and clear goals. Ramona draws on client-centered methods to make room for each person's experience.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques when thoughts and behavior patterns are getting in the way, and solution-focused steps to help with immediate practical problems. People can expect a collaborative conversation rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Ramona tailors the work to each person's needs and adjusts the pace as progress is made.
She pays attention to emotions and relationships while helping clients develop coping tools. Her practice supports a wide range of concerns including bipolar mood issues, post-traumatic stress, self-harm thoughts, anger, low self-esteem, social anxiety, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses family-of-origin questions, grief around end-of-life, and recovery from sexual assault or other abuse.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on making space for the person's experience and building a trusting therapeutic relationship. In online sessions this looks like attentive listening, reflecting feelings, and working at the client’s pace to identify what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear skills for changing unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day struggles and translates well to video or phone formats for practicing skills and reviewing homework.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to each person's needs, goals, and preferences in a collaborative way. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face for deeper conversation, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth or attention needs vary. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or scheduling follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English