Leonard Uchendu, LMSW, LCSW, CSW
Practical, body-aware therapy for daily stressors
About Leonard
Leonard Uchendu is a licensed social worker practicing in Michigan. He has eight years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. He creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what is hard for them.
Sessions are meant to be straightforward and practical. Leonard listens for what matters most and helps clients find steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Leonard draws on somatic work alongside cognitive and acceptance-based methods. That means he pays attention to how thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations connect. He uses simple exercises to help people notice stress in the body and learn ways to respond differently.
His toolkit also includes cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-informed strategies. Those approaches help with managing mood, coping with anxiety, and improving how people relate to others. The aim is to create clearer choices and small, doable changes in daily life.
Leonard describes his practice as inclusive and culturally aware. He supports people from varied backgrounds and pays attention to how identity and life context shape problems. He works with common issues such as sleep and eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, bipolar and ADHD-related challenges.
Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances immediate relief with longer-term skill building. Leonard holds the credentials LMSW, LCSW, CSW and brings practical focus to each session.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Somatic work helps people notice and respond to sensations in their bodies that show up with stress or anxiety. It uses grounding and simple body awareness exercises to reduce tension and support calmer responses in daily life.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to someone and learning small actions that reflect those values. It helps with anxiety, depression, and stuck patterns by combining acceptance of feelings with practical behavior changes.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in close connections. It supports people who want clearer communication, more supported relating, and different ways of handling conflict and intimacy.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leonard will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. He adjusts tools over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments. Many people appreciate the convenience and the chance to practice skills in their everyday environment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Colorado
- Languages
- English