Private-pay individual psychotherapy for adults
In Round Rock and online across Texas, for perfectionism, overcontrol, religious trauma and religious harm, and the things you can explain well but have not been able to think your way out of.
I am Leila Anderson, LMFT-S. I work with adults who notice context, contradiction, and power—and are tired of being handed simple answers to complicated problems.
Therapy can be deep, useful, challenging, and funny.
Practice
This is a queer-affirming, trans-affirming, fat-affirming, and neurodiversity-affirming practice. I pay attention to the ways race, migration, disability, religion, family obligation, class, and power shape a life—and the room we make to talk about it.
A lot of my work is with queer, trans, fat, neurodivergent, and post-religious adults—often at the intersections of several of those identities.
When old rules still show up in your body, relationships, and decisions.
When the danger is old, but life is still organized around not being caught off guard.
When being capable has become a full-time private management system.
Optional Method: Playing with LEGO
Yes. Sometimes a problem is easier to see when it has tiny windows, improbable staircases, and enough pieces to make the relationships visible. We can build a family system, a belief structure, or the shape of an impossible decision—and then move things around.
Why I Love It
Why getting very good at self-criticism does not make it any more useful.
ReadOn the gap between what is possible and what is actually next.
ReadWhy leaving can feel less like freedom at first than like losing gravity.
ReadMore essays: Mostly, Though on Substack.
