About
Arc Psychotherapy offers structured psychotherapy for high-achieving adults navigating perfectionism, rigidity/overcontrol, and religious harm (spiritual trauma). The work is framework-led, collaborative, and designed for people who want conceptual clarity with practical integration. Clinical direction draws from executive leadership in high-acuity settings, program design with process-tracking discipline, and systems-level professional service. Care is based in Downtown Round Rock, serving North Austin and surrounding communities, with telehealth across Texas.
Collaborative, systems-informed work grounded in clarity, not quick fixes.
Leila Anderson, LMFT-S
How I think about the work
The work is framework-first: define the pattern, map the sequence, test the intervention, then integrate.
Language and meaning matter because they shape how people encode power, threat, and identity. Systems thinking matters because distress is often maintained by structure, not only by insight gaps.
Clinical leadership & systems work
- • Executive clinical leadership in residential dual-diagnosis and high-acuity environments, including crisis and level-of-care assessment.
- • Program design and measurable process-tracking orientation, with emphasis on structured treatment planning.
- • Systems-level exposure to criminal justice and diversion-adjacent behavioral health workflows.
- • State professional leadership through TAMFT board and education committee service.
- • Psycholinguistics-informed orientation to language, cognition, and authority in clinical formulation.
Speaking & training
- • TAMFT professional education and leadership forums
- • TAAP and behavioral health training events
- • Regional agency and group practice CEU trainings
- • Interdisciplinary systems and policy-facing mental health panels
Who I work well with
- • High-achieving adults who function well externally but feel overcontrolled internally
- • Clients navigating perfectionism, rigidity, and persistent shame loops
- • People sorting religious harm, authority conflict, or post-faith identity strain
- • Professionals who prefer conceptual clarity over quick hacks
Not the best fit
- • Work focused on immediate shortcuts or symptom promises
- • Clients looking for unstructured conversation-only treatment
- • Situations requiring emergency or crisis response outside outpatient scope
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