About Leanne
Leanne Perales is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in Oklahoma who helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions. She writes plainly and listens closely, aiming to make therapy feel straightforward and respectful. Her approach centers on what each person wants to change and which steps feel doable for them.
Leanne blends several practical methods to guide sessions, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy.
Background and approach
She focuses on establishing clear goals with clients and uses talk and exercises to strengthen emotional awareness and valued action. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to fit each person's needs. She also brings attachment-based ideas into her work, helping people understand patterns that shape close relationships.
That perspective is useful for issues like intimacy, communication problems, and wounds from earlier relationships. Leanne aims to help people notice those patterns and try new ways of relating. Leanne has five years of clinical experience as an LMFT and describes her style as open and nonjudgmental.
She emphasizes direct communication and practical next steps, rather than long lists of clinical terms. Clients can expect a calm setting where problems are broken into manageable pieces. Her practice addresses a broad set of concerns, including parenting stress, career strain, compassion fatigue, and identity issues within LGBT concerns.
She encourages people to bring what matters most to the first sessions so therapy can focus on meaningful, achievable change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Leanne commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values, which can be helpful for anxiety and life changes. EFT focuses on emotions in close relationships and helps people improve connection and communication when intimacy or attachment is strained.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leanne will talk with each person about goals, past attempts, and what feels most useful. She and the client decide collaboratively which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what helps.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make regular contact easier. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face contact. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can work for quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These choices make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to use approaches like ACT and EFT in ways that fit each person's routine.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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