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Jon Leano LCSW

My practice is grounded in the belief that therapy should help people understand both themselves and the systems they live within. Many struggles that bring people to therapy do not exist in isolation. Anxiety, conflict, grief, emotional overwhelm, and stuck patterns often develop within relationships, family roles, life transitions, and repeated ways of coping under stress. For that reason, I bring a strong systems perspective to my work. I help clients look not only at symptoms, but also at the larger emotional patterns, relational dynamics, and contexts that shape how those symptoms are maintained. Systems thinking is a central part of how I understand people and problems. I pay close attention to how anxiety moves through families and relationships, how people take on certain roles over time, and how emotional pressure can shape reactivity, overfunctioning, withdrawal, conflict, and self-doubt. This perspective is often especially helpful for adults navigating family stress, relationship difficulties, parenting concerns, identity questions, and longstanding patterns that feel difficult to change. Rather than viewing problems only as individual deficits, I work to help clients understand how their responses make sense in context and how they can begin relating to themselves and others with greater clarity and steadiness. Alongside this systems framework, I bring experience with evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Exposure and Response Prevention (EXRP/ERP). My experience with CBT informs work around anxious thinking, self-critical thought patterns, avoidance, and the ways beliefs influence emotions and behavior. My experience with DBT supports work on emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness, particularly for clients who feel overwhelmed by strong emotions or recurring relational stress. My experience with EXRP is especially helpful for anxiety-related presentations where avoidance, compulsive patterns, or fear-based cycles keep distress going. I integrate these approaches thoughtfully, using them not as rigid formulas but as practical tools within a broader, individualized treatment process. I also have deep training in grief work, which informs an important part of my practice. Grief is not only about bereavement. It can emerge after death, but also around divorce, estrangement, illness, infertility, trauma, role changes, developmental transitions, disappointed hopes, and the loss of an imagined future. I approach grief with respect for its complexity and its timing. I do not believe grief should be rushed, minimized, or treated as a problem to solve. At the same time, I help clients make room for grief in ways that are supportive, meaningful, and connected to life as it is now. My grief work is grounded, compassionate, and able to hold both deep pain and the ongoing realities of living. My overall style is thoughtful, engaged, and practical. I aim to create a therapy space that is steady, collaborative, and clear. I value depth, but I also want therapy to be useful. Clients often come to me not only wanting relief, but wanting to understand why they feel the way they do, why certain patterns repeat, and how real change becomes possible. In our work, we may explore current stressors, longstanding relationship dynamics, family-of-origin themes, coping patterns, and the emotional meanings attached to present difficulties. We may also use concrete strategies to help with anxiety, mood regulation, communication, boundaries, or behavioral change. A point of distinction in my practice is the integration of systems thinking with practical, evidence-based treatment and deep relational work. I am interested in helping clients move beyond surface-level symptom management toward a fuller understanding of themselves in context. Whether someone is struggling with anxiety, grief, relationship issues, family tension, or a major life transition, my goal is to help them develop greater awareness, greater emotional flexibility, and a stronger capacity to respond to life with intention rather than automatic reactivity.