Pedro Leone , ACA, AHPRA

Pedro Leone is an ACA counsellor and AHPRA-registered practitioner with eight years' experience offering psychotherapy in Australia. He works with people facing anxiety, stress, low self-esteem and depression. He also supports people dealing with relationship and family concerns and related challenges. Pedro's clinical work uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-focused. He helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and develop small, manageable steps toward better day-to-day coping. He works with people affected by adoption and foster care issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, and ageing-related matters. He also addresses chronic illness and pain, communication problems, codependency and commitment worries. Pedro has experience supporting people on the autism spectrum and those experiencing personality-related difficulties. Sessions are conversational and collaborative. Pedro listens, asks clear questions and offers exercises to try between meetings. He explains the reasoning behind interventions so people can decide what suits them. Pedro speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese, which can help when language matters in therapy. His approach is practical and adaptable, and he aims to make therapy fit everyday life and responsibilities. People who prefer direct, skilled support that focuses on skills and behaviour often find his style helpful. He invites potential clients to consider whether a short series of sessions or ongoing work would best meet their needs.

Practical approaches and online therapy options

Pedro draws on well-established, evidence-informed techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviour. One such approach helps people notice and test unhelpful thinking patterns, then try alternative ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method suits worries, phobias and general stress. He also uses brief behavioural strategies that break problems into small steps. These strategies help when motivation is low, or tasks feel overwhelming, and they are useful for depression, chronic health challenges and building daily routines. A complementary set of techniques focuses on communication skills and attachments to improve relationship interactions and reduce conflict. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Pedro collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs and preferences. He explains options, tries different tools, and adjusts the plan if something isn't helping. Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when video is impractical, live chat suits quick check‑ins and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily routines while still getting consistent therapeutic support.