Welcome to StraightUp Counseling!
Mission Statement
This practice has been developed to simplify how people experience seeking support and guidance for Mental Health Treatment. Our goal is to ease the process of asking for help and expressing emotional needs, as we understand how difficult and challenging it can be. The hope is to extinguish the stigma and change the narrative surrounding therapy by attempting to decrease the sense of a need for overt diagnoses and/or medications.
We aspire to strengthen the mental wellness of persons from all walks of life while equipping them with various tools, skills and techniques to thrive through life circumstances. With StraightUp Counseling, you will receive authentic feedback while being empowered to embrace change, self-care and improvement in quality of life. It is our mission to promote and encourage healthy emotional intelligence, general life balance and healing.
Providing you with virtual & remote safe spaces.
All sessions will take place in the comfort of your choosing with secure cyber privacy and the support necessary for you to blossom into your best self.
Our Services
“People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don’t want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.”
— BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL
Ms. Leondra Polk, LMSW
Meet
Ms. Polk is a passionate woman with over a five year history in the field and pronouns of she/her. As a Licensed Master Social Worker, it is her hope to provide an authentic experience through therapy, counseling and advocacy. She looks forward to engaging clients ready to break the stigma of mental health care.
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Embracing the importance of mental health and how to navigate life circumstances, it is her goal to normalize and make the process of seeking support easier. She is available to act as a Life Coach to promote healthy life balance. Offering both professional and personal Life Coaching.
Practitioner
By creating a practice that welcomes all children, adults, families and couples, Ms. Polk will work to empower all by allowing a safe space for healing. Through this journey, she encourages confidence, self-care, secure attachments, a stable identity, true life potential and more by providing easy-going Mental Health Support.