You can't out-think this.

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You're highly self-aware. You've analyzed your past, you understand your "why," and you can explain your patterns to anyone who asks. But understanding it hasn't changed it.

You're still exhausted. You're still over-functioning. You're still waiting for the other shoe to drop because you've built a life based on who you were told to be, not who you actually are.

Success shouldn’t feel this heavy. If intellect alone could fix this, you’d have solved it years ago. I offer a space where you can stop analyzing your life and start living it.

Services & Pricing

Services & Pricing

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Therapy

I specialize in the things high-achievers tend to bury: religious trauma, the "never-enough" cycle of perfectionism, and the specific kind of grief that comes with outgrowing your environment.

The Tools: Parts work, challenging old assumptions, and picking up new skills. We use these to reset your nervous system so your body finally believes what your mind already knows.

In-Office (Coming 2026): I plan to return to in-office work in 2026 and am currently looking for the right space.

Session Format: I offer both virtual sessions via secure video platform and "walk and talk" sessions at various Austin parks and trails. Walk and talk sessions combine the benefits of movement and nature with therapeutic conversation.

Session Duration: Standard sessions are 50-60 minutes.

Fee: $200/hour. Out-of-network reimbursement via superbill or automated with Mentaya or Thrizer.

Supervision & Consulting

For Clinicians: Relational supervision for LMFT Associates who want to develop their own clinical authority rather than just checking boxes.

For Organizations: Strategic consulting to build cultures that don't rely on burnout as a feature.

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About Me

Leila Anderson, LMFT-S

I’m Leila Anderson, LMFT-S. I’m a therapist, supervisor, and consultant, but more importantly, I’m someone who knows what it’s like to untangle a life from systems — religious, family, and corporate — that reward shrinking.

I don't do "small talk" therapy. I bring over a decade of experience and a sharp lens on how power, culture, and systems shape who we are.

Framework & Alignment

I don't believe therapy is a neutral act. My work is intentionally informed by the following lenses:

  • Anti-Racist & Decolonial: Naming how systemic oppression and white supremacy impact your mental health.
  • LGBTQ+ & TGNC Affirming: Centering autonomy and celebration, not just tolerance.
  • Fat Positive / HAES: Rejecting weight stigma and the pathologization of body size.
  • Neuro-Affirming: Moving away from "masking" and toward honoring divergent brains.
  • Relational & Justice-Oriented: Recognizing that your "symptoms" often make perfect sense in the context of your environment.

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Fair Pay Calculator

This calculator estimates overhead first, then looks at how the remaining margin is divided.

For fully licensed clinicians, this tool uses a 50/50 post-overhead benchmark. For associates, it uses 80% of that benchmark.

Private practice pay fairness

Fairness starts after overhead.

The calculator estimates what it costs to support your sessions, then benchmarks how the remaining post-overhead margin is split.

  • Estimate actual collected revenue per session.
  • Convert monthly overhead into cost per completed session.
  • Benchmark the clinician share against post-overhead norms.

Educational estimate only. Use it to ground a transparency conversation, not to replace legal, accounting, or contract review.

Methodology Notes

This tool is trying to answer a specific question: once the cost of running the practice is estimated, how is the remaining margin being divided between the clinician doing the clinical work and the owner carrying the business?

Assumptions

  • Revenue is estimated from your listed session rate or blended reimbursement average, adjusted by collection rate and no-show assumptions.
  • Overhead is estimated from the costs you enter, plus any optional assumptions for benefits, payroll, card processing, and billing fees.
  • Fairness is judged primarily on share of post-overhead margin, not just share of gross revenue.
  • For fully licensed clinicians, the baseline benchmark is a 50/50 split of post-overhead margin.
  • For associates, the benchmark defaults lower because supervision, reduced independent market value, and training structure often change the economics.

What Clinician-Favoring Structures Tend to Offer

  • A larger share of post-overhead margin going directly to the person doing the clinical work.
  • More immediate earning power for clinicians with strong caseloads or high reimbursement rates.
  • Less room for the practice to subsidize low-utilization clinicians, extensive admin support, or richer benefits.

What Practice-Favoring Structures Tend to Offer

  • More retained margin for admin labor, infrastructure, supervision, onboarding, and business stability.
  • More capacity to smooth out uneven caseloads, absorb ramp-up periods, or support clinicians who are not yet fully built out.
  • A higher risk that the structure drifts into owner-favoring territory if transparency is low and the clinician share stays well below benchmark.

What a Balanced Structure Should Feel Like

  • The clinician should be able to understand, in broad terms, what the practice is paying for and why the split is what it is.
  • The owner should not be retaining more than half of post-overhead margin for a fully licensed clinician and calling that simply “standard.”
  • The arrangement should feel sustainable for both parties, not like one side is subsidizing the other indefinitely without clarity.

Tension Built Into the System

There is real structural tension baked into group practice economics. As clinicians see more clients, each hour of therapy becomes cheaper for the practice to support because fixed costs are spread across more sessions. That means part-time clinicians and clinicians with lower caseloads can be genuinely harder to support inside a group model, even when the practice is acting in good faith.

That does not mean a low split is automatically fair. It means the economics get tighter at lower utilization, and practices that want to support part-time or ramping clinicians need to be honest about how they are handling that tension.

Let's talk.

Send a brief note about what’s going on. I’ll get back to you within 48 hours to schedule a consultation.