Leanna Miller Marquez

Leanna Miller Marquez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with four years of experience in social service and mental health settings. Leanna focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Sessions are offered in English and support exploring identity and sexuality alongside practical needs.

Leanna centers her work on each person's lived experience and the knowledge held in the body. She recognizes how systems and social structures can affect emotional and physical wellbeing. In conversation she combines attention to feelings with practical steps, such as connecting people to community resources when that will help.

Clients can expect pace set to their needs. Leanna talks through relationship patterns, communication problems, commitment concerns, and issues like abandonment, guilt, or shame. She also addresses caregiver stress, body image, and isolation with straightforward discussion and concrete next steps.

Her approach includes looking at how life transitions and co-occurring problems interact. Topics such as infidelity, domestic violence, fatherhood issues, and family problems are addressed with direct questions and steady follow-up. She also works with gender dysphoria concerns in an affirming way when they arise.

Leanna aims to help people facing hard choices or unclear next steps make sense of what matters to them now. For people feeling stuck after change, she offers a mix of reflection and practical planning. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Leanna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on present concerns and practical change. One common approach looks at current thoughts and behaviors to reduce stress and anxiety by practicing small, repeatable skills that can shift daily patterns. Another approach examines relationship and communication patterns with clear steps for trying new ways of talking and setting boundaries, which can help when decision points feel confusing.

Choosing an approach is collaborative. She will talk with the person about their goals, what has or hasn’t helped before, and what fits their pace. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them over time based on what works in real life.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so conversations can happen during a lunch break or between errands. Licensed professionals can use different session styles to match a client’s needs and daily life, and Leanna will help clarify practical arrangements when you select your first appointment.