About Anthony
Anthony Leite is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Hawaii with ten years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy concerns. He aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for everyday life.
He uses practical strategies to help clients identify strengths and set realistic goals. Sessions often include clear steps for coping with overwhelming feelings and improving daily routines like sleep and work habits.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a collaborative and nonjudgmental approach where their priorities guide the work. Anthony draws on client-centered methods to listen closely and tailor sessions to each person. He also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more workable thoughts and actions.
When emotions run high, skills from dialectical behavior therapy help with regulation and steadying reactions. Motivational interviewing is part of his toolkit for people who want help finding motivation to change habits. Solution-focused work helps when the aim is practical problem solving and quick steps forward.
These approaches are mixed to fit what a person needs most in the moment. Anthony keeps language simple and action-oriented. He helps people build short-term plans that fit their daily lives and offers coaching-style support for ongoing goals.
Therapy is paced to each person, with an emphasis on usable skills and clearer next steps.
How practical approaches work online
Anthony uses client-centered therapy to begin sessions by listening closely and building a plan around what matters most. This approach focuses on understanding a person's priorities and creating goals that feel relevant and manageable.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood, sleep issues, and patterns that get in the way of daily functioning. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are brought in when strong emotions or impulsive reactions need steadying, offering concrete tools for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Finding the right mix of methods is treated as a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on what the client finds helpful. This collaborative process helps tailor work to each person's goals and preferences.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into life. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to attend sessions from different locations and to pick the format that suits the situation.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English
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