Leandra Wills

When something finally becomes too heavy to carry alone — a fraying marriage, a child who’s struggling, grief that won’t move, anxiety that keeps arriving uninvited — that’s usually the moment people find their way to Leandra Wills. She works with individuals, children, couples, and families in Manhattan Beach, California, offering both in-person and online sessions to fit the real shape of people’s lives.

Leandra is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a particular gift for bringing creativity into the room. As a practicing artist herself, she draws on art modalities to help clients access what words alone sometimes can’t reach — processing loss, trauma, life transitions, postpartum depression, self-esteem, and relational strain. Her approach is strength-based and solution-focused, meaning she works from what’s already right in a person, not only what’s broken. She uses cognitive-behavioral tools for targeted, shorter-term work while also thinking systemically: who surrounds this person, and how can that network become part of healing?

Leandra collaborates closely with each client, building a genuine personal connection and looking outward together at the full web of support available — family, community, faith, health providers, and beyond. Her practice reflects a whole-body-mind philosophy, holding space for wherever someone is while pointing steadily toward growth.