About Anthony
Anthony O'Leary is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington with 30 years of experience. He helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed by life changes. He also supports those coping with relationship strain, grief, addictions, and issues tied to aging and end-of-life concerns.
Anthony draws on straightforward, practical methods rather than jargon. Sessions are conversational and supportive. He listens closely, offers observations, and suggests alternatives you can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Many of his years were spent in community mental health, working with people facing trauma, mood challenges, and complex life stressors. That background shaped his focus on clear strategies and steady support for everyday problems. He uses methods that include cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, and mindfulness tools.
These approaches aim to change unhelpful thoughts and patterns, strengthen close relationships, and bring more calm into daily life. Anthony emphasizes collaboration. He treats the relationship as central and helps people build on their own strengths.
He works with clients to set realistic goals and practical steps to improve mood, sleep, coping, and communication.
How Anthony’s Approaches Work Online
Anthony often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety or low mood. These techniques include simple exercises to test beliefs and small behavioral steps to reduce avoidance.He also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationship patterns shape reactions and closeness. That work helps with communication, trust, and intimacy-related difficulties by identifying patterns and trying new ways of relating.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Anthony works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily life. He will try different techniques and adjust based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full-session conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing expressions. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging let people share thoughts in writing and fit support into busy days. These options make it easier to keep regular work on anxiety, sleep, grief, or relationship goals around other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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