Leona Palmer

I’m Leona Palmer, LMSW, (she/her), a clinician with Choices Consulting. I work collaboratively to uncover what matters most to you: what you know, need, and want. Practical, optimistic, and creative, I support wellbeing in all areas while discerning patterns and connections across thoughts, feelings, and actions. I foster a brave space of safety, support, empathy, and validation to increase whole person integration and heal wounds. Building positive coping skills to face life’s challenges and transitions so that you can feel confident, aware, and empowered in choosing how to direct your life forward from the inside out.

Integrating a strengths-based approach with systems, polyvagal, rewilding, and attachment theories, I utilize somatic body/breath, cognitive/behavioral, and narrative practices. Working from an intersectional feminist and liberation framework, I am trained in Nonviolent Communication, Mindfulness and Non-Dual Meditation, Level 2 Gottman Couples Therapy, Transgender and Nonbinary Affirming Care, and Perinatal Mental Health. 

I work with teens, adults, couples, and families. Queerness has always been my home, and I’m especially devoted to serving all folx in the community. With an MSW from The University at Albany, SUNY, I specialize in anxiety, grief/loss/bereavement, life transitions, relationships, gender affirmation and transition, reproductive and sexual health (including puberty/menstruation, fertility, pregnancy and loss, birth, new parenthood, impotence, and menopause), and spiritual growth. When I’m not in session, I’m parenting, collaging, out gardening, or obsessing over my way too many houseplants.