Hi, I’m Leila Anderson, LMFT-S.
Your guide for coming home to yourself.
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, Consultant, and Speaker, I blend rigorous clinical expertise with a deeply human, shame-reducing, and radically affirming stance. Rooted in justice and powered by presence, my work is about helping you integrate your intellect and emotion, your past and your powerful present.
You’re Self-Aware. Driven. And Perhaps, Deeply Exhausted.
You’ve navigated complex systems — family, faith, culture, patriarchy, diet culture, white supremacy — that tried to define or diminish you, and you’re ready to unravel the internalized shame they left behind.
Your high-functioning exterior often masks cycles of self-criticism and over-functioning, leaving you feeling disconnected from your true self. While my practice is inclusive of all, I specialize in supporting women and queer folks, and I deeply understand the unique pressures they navigate.
You crave a therapeutic space that honors your intellect and your emotional world, rather than pathologizing your protective strategies, offering LGBTQ+ affirming and Health-At-Any-Size informed care.
You’re tired of quick fixes and ready for a depth-oriented approach that helps you integrate your mind, body, and story.
You know there’s more to life than survival mode, and you’re ready to live in alignment with your values and full humanity.
Where Clinical Expertise Meets Lived Wisdom.
My approach is distinct:
I’m not afraid to name the invisible forces — including patriarchy, systemic injustice, and internalized oppression — that have shaped your story, helping you see how you’ve internalized their impact.
We move beyond analysis, using metaphor and meaning-making to help you live into new narratives, not just dissect old ones, within a feminist and anti-oppression framework.
Drawing on diverse lived experiences across cultures, faith traditions, and roles, I hold the complexity of your story without collapsing into binaries, creating a space where you feel truly accompanied, not managed, with unwavering LGBTQ+ affirmation.
For practices and leaders, I translate clinical nuance into strategic insight, building programs and curricula that are trauma-literate, neurodivergent-affirming, ethical, and equitable.
Our Offerings
Therapy: From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust
This is depth-oriented, trauma-informed care for adults across Texas (in-person in Austin & online). We specialize in supporting women and queer folks navigating spiritual trauma, complex grief, and deep-seated shame, using modalities like EMDR, DBT, and IFS. Through a relational, systems-aware, and explicitly affirming lens (LGBTQ+, HAES, anti-oppression), I'll help you process protective strategies, reconnect with your inherent wisdom, and experience deep relief as you move from survival mode to living in alignment with your values.
Clinical Supervision: Empowering Your Voice
For LMFT Associates ready to deepen their clinical integrity and amplify their impact. Our equity-rooted, rigorous, and profoundly relational supervision is designed to help you unleash your unique voice and confidently step into your power as a clinician.
Consulting & Speaking: Building Transformative Spaces
I offer strategic insight, curriculum development, and dynamic training for group practice owners, leaders, and mental health entrepreneurs. My focus is on helping you align your work with justice values, enhance experiential program delivery, and address issues of equity, ethics, and systemic change. We'll build something that actually works, translating clinical depth into actionable, embodied strategies for your team or audience.
Signature Trainings & Presentations
All Behavior Makes Sense in Context
Explore how complex trauma shapes behavior often misread as personality pathology — with reflections on the politics of diagnosis.
Holy Hell: Treating Spiritual Trauma
Understand how religious systems create trauma and how to respond with clinical integrity and deep compassion.
The Interpersonal Self
Integrate DBT and IFS to support clients navigating trauma-influenced emotional and relational dysregulation.
Connecting Like Elmer’s
Build non-toxic leadership grounded in ethics, humility, and relational accountability — no glue gun required.