About Leland
Leland Baker is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of experience. He practices as LCSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and LICSW, Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, and works from Missouri. He focuses on helping people who are struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, anger, addiction, and stress.
He centers sessions on each person's experience and strengths. He treats each person as the expert on their own life and helps them find practical ways forward.
Background and approach
He keeps language simple and aims for clear, doable steps rather than long theory talks. In sessions he draws on client-centered methods to listen and respond to what matters most. He also uses cognitive behavioral approaches to identify unhelpful thinking and to build new patterns of behavior.
Solution-focused ideas are used when clients want targeted changes and quick strategies to try between meetings. People often come for help with relationships, parenting strain, sleep problems, attention challenges, or career stress. He can also address trauma, attachment concerns, abandonment, forgiveness, and guilt.
His experience includes supporting people facing domestic violence, divorce and blended family transitions. He works collaboratively with each person to set goals and track progress. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented when helpful, or more exploratory when that fits better.
The aim is to leave people with tools they can use in day-to-day life.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It emphasizes empathy, respect, and the person's own goals, which helps when someone feels overwhelmed or unsure where to start.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to shift them. This approach is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress management.
Solution-focused therapy targets specific, achievable changes and helps people try short experiments between sessions. It can be a useful complement when someone wants quick, practical steps to test in daily life.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try options, adjust as needed, and track progress toward concrete aims.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes therapy more flexible. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Washington, Missouri
- Languages
- English
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