About Leo
Leo Lyon helps people facing low self-esteem, depression, career uncertainty, and major life changes. He also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue and burnout. Leo writes plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
He works with each person to find strengths they may not notice. Sessions aim to build tools for coping, better communication, and clearer goals. Leo draws on evidence-based methods to guide conversations and practice new habits.
Background and approach
Leo earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds the LCSW credential, listed as LCSW 6371098 and IL LCSW 149.027386. In the room he keeps language simple and direct.
People can expect collaborative planning and short, usable strategies to try between meetings. He pays attention to background factors like family of origin, immigration stress, first responder strain, and fatherhood challenges. Sessions are offered in English and Tagalog.
Leo has three years of clinical experience and is based in Nevada. He aims to make therapy easy to fit into a busy life and works with each person’s goals at a steady pace.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Leo uses several evidence-based techniques in accessible ways. Narrative-informed work helps people reframe their life stories by identifying strengths and moments of perseverance, which can ease feelings of emptiness and give direction for career or life purpose decisions. Acceptance and Commitment style strategies focus on noticing difficult thoughts without fighting them and then choosing actions that align with personal values, useful for coping with depression, commitment concerns, or control issues. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy informed skills teach concrete emotion regulation and distress tolerance steps to handle impulsivity, dissociation, or overwhelming stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try techniques together to see what fits. This collaborative stance means plans can shift as needs change and progress is reviewed regularly.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Messaging and live chat are useful for brief check-ins, homework, or tracking progress between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Nevada, Idaho
- Languages
- English, Tagalog