Leona Kim Welham, AASW

Leona Kim Welham is an AASW counsellor with eight years of professional experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or past trauma. Her approach aims to make the first step less daunting and more manageable for someone worried about reaching out.

Leona spends session time listening and reflecting so clients can name what matters to them. She creates a calm space for people to talk about loss, family conflict, or the emotional impact of illness and cancer treatment. The focus is on practical ways to get through hard days rather than jargon or tests.

Her work combines acceptance and commitment ideas with client-centred and narrative methods. That means Leona helps people notice difficult thoughts, clarify values, and tell their story in ways that reduce shame and self-blame. She also uses solution-focused tools to build small, achievable steps forward.

People come to her for help with caregiver stress, chronic pain or disability, communication problems, and adjustments after separation or infidelity. She also supports those coping with hospice and end-of-life concerns and issues tied to veteran and armed forces experiences.

Leona encourages people to move at their own pace and to try simple, practical strategies between sessions. She asks about each person’s goals and works collaboratively to find what fits best. Taking the first step matters, and she aims to make that step feel possible.

How Leona’s approaches work in online therapy

Leona commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred Therapy in her work. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can be useful for anxiety, chronic illness adjustment and caregiving stress. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and understanding so people feel heard while they work through grief, relationship strain or trauma.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and Leona treats it as a collaboration. She will discuss your goals and preferences, try strategies together, and adjust the plan if something does not fit. The aim is to build practical steps that feel doable between sessions.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and offer shorter check-ins when needed. Talk with the therapist about what will best fit your routine and day-to-day demands before scheduling.