About Leonardo
Leonardo Custidiano is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida. He has seven years of experience working in residential programs and community settings with people facing addiction and serious mental health concerns. He speaks English and Spanish and works with individuals who need practical support and clear goals.
He began his career providing housing and on-site care for adults with addiction and mental illness. He also has experience offering counseling to parents and teenagers with behavioral challenges.
Background and approach
More recently he has worked with families involved with the Department of Children & Families, addressing parenting, family problems, and prevention services. In sessions he uses a flexible, integrated approach. He may use cognitive behavioral techniques when immediate symptom relief is needed.
He can draw on psychodynamic ideas when exploring deeper patterns that affect current stress or relationships. Leonardo emphasizes the working relationship as a central part of therapy. He focuses on the present while also attending to personal history when it influences today's problems.
Goal setting and practical steps are part of each plan. Clients often come for help with addiction, trauma, parenting strain, anger, anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. He also supports people dealing with attachment issues, domestic violence, immigration concerns, impulsivity, and self-harm tendencies.
Practical Approaches for Online Care
Leonardo commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, and addiction-related urges. DBT teaches skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and reducing impulsive behavior.He also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice and steady their attention, which can ease reactivity and support emotional regulation. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences and may blend techniques over time as progress is assessed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and structured work. Phone calls can fit into a busy day and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and flexible communication when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while accommodating day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish