Warm, Compassionate, and Relational Therapy with an Attachment-Based and Family Systems Oriented Lens
You Are More Than Your Diagnosis and Struggles
In this space we honor who you are holistically
I'm a real person, and I hope you'll feel that from the moment we meet. I show up with genuine curiosity, patience, and kindness, and yes, the occasional well-timed joke. My approach is rooted in the belief that who you are today cannot be fully understood without the context of where you came from: your earliest experiences with family, caregivers, and the world that shaped you.
That means we look at the whole picture. Not just what's happening now, but the layers beneath it: your identity, your culture, your faith or spirituality, your relationship with your own body and brain, and the systemic forces that have shaped your lived experience. Race, ethnicity, economic realities, trauma, neurodivergence, queerness... all of it belongs here, and all of it matters.
This is a feminist, queer- and neurodivergent-owned practice built on trauma-informed, decolonized, and neurodiverse-affirming care for adults. You deserve to be understood, not just clinically, but compassionately and completely.
Protect Black & Brown Lives
✶
Protect the Dolls
✶
HAES (Health at Every Size) Aligned
✶
Fat-Affirming
✶
Fat Liberation
✶
Sex Positive
✶
Kink Positive
✶
F*** Capitalism
✶
F*** The Patriarchy
✶
Protect Black & Brown Lives ✶ Protect the Dolls ✶ HAES (Health at Every Size) Aligned ✶ Fat-Affirming ✶ Fat Liberation ✶ Sex Positive ✶ Kink Positive ✶ F*** Capitalism ✶ F*** The Patriarchy ✶
Hi I’m Lea,
Lea M. Roman, M.S., LPCC #16489
I'm a sensitive, kind, and goofy soul who has always been drawn to genuine human connection. After several powerful experiences in therapy as an adolescent and young adult, I knew with clarity that my mission in life was to walk alongside others during their counseling journeys.
With over ten years of clinical experience and a couple of decades of lived experience as a neurodivergent and queer human navigating imperfect and often challenging spaces and systems, I've developed a deep understanding of what it takes to cultivate real safety for my communities. I don't just study these experiences academically, I've lived them.
My greatest hope is that the space you meet me in feels exactly that: safe, authentic, and genuinely empowering.
Offerings
-
Individual Counseling for Adults
Relational, collaborative, and genuinely human therapy that centers your lived experience and moves entirely at your pace.
-
Counseling for Therapists
A safe, human-to-human space designed specifically for the beautifully complex and deeply personal nature of doing this work.
-
Consultations for Therapists
A collaborative space for clinicians to explore neurodivergent affirming care, executive functioning, and holistic support strategies.
Common Themes You Might Be Struggling With
-
ADHD
Diagnosed or Suspected ADHD
Are you struggling to stay motivated and organized or feeling really burnt out? Do you feel yourself drowning in “big feelings” and feel uncertain about how to make sense of or communicate them?This diagnosis impacts more than “attention.” I can provide warm support and chewable strategies. I can also help you broaden your understanding of the variety of ways ADHD can show up in our lives.
-
LGBTQIA+ Identity
Exploring identities
We can explore and process your sexuality, gender, or other aspects of self and being within a compassionate,curious, and affirming space. You are not only welcome but encouraged to bring any form of art or media that supports the exploratorary process. You are your soul’s only container. How do you want to organize and decorate?
-
Chronic Illness
Living with Chronic Illness
Chronic Illness is common for ADHD’ers and navigating the healthcare system can be so very emotionally draining for a variety of reasons. I offer compassionate and holistically minded support. I can guide you in strengthening your self advocacy, and help you identify other specialists that may support your individual needs. Clients experiencing nuanced medical needs often also report feeling unheard, dismissed, and even belittled. I am intentional about holding space for medical trauma and all that encompasses physically and emotionally. -
Religious Trauma
Religious or Spiritual Trauma
Growing up in Texas, there was a religious institution seemingly on each block and you can feel the presence of these belief systems within the culture. I have a special love for helping folks explore what aspects of religious and spiritual beliefs that they would like to keep or consider releasing. I can also support your exploration of how religion/spirituality may have impacted your understanding of self and how you show up in relationships.
-
Relationship Dynamics
Tricky Relational Dynamics
Do you find it difficult to identify, communicate, and honor your own needs with romantic partners, family, friends, or even at work? I am eager to empower folks and help them find their own voice so that they can embody the confidence and self worth that is already within. I believe that the most impactful therapy views individuals within the context of their early experiences and within the systems they live within. This means that in our work together, we will observe the ways you “show up” in relationships with a compassionate lens that includes awareness of what you learned (even subconsciously) from early caregivers and early experiences.
-
Latine Identities
Latine/Latina/o Identities
I am obviously a “white girl” and I own the privilege that comes with that. Having gone to high school a few miles from the Tijuana border and now parenting a latine daughter, I hold a special place in my heart for walking alongside latine folks who need a therapeutic space that understands and honors the culture.
-
Parenting
Parenting a Neurodivergent Kiddo
It’s hard to help your kiddo when you face similar struggles. I enjoy empowering parents and caregivers from a neurodivergent affirming perspective. This includes psychoeducation about diagnoses and evidenced-based supportive strategies and skills to support how your family system navigates life together. I am always happy to share bits of my own lived experience as a parent if you find that helpful, too.
A Practice Born From Mission, Minerals, and a Deep Belief that Healing has to be Whole
Amethyst Holistic Counseling was born in 2025 with the mission of empowering neurodivergent and queer folks in California to explore healing and liberate themselves from harmful or unrealistic relational patterns, beliefs, and standards so as to live their most fulfilling authentic lives.
Amethyst is the second counseling practice I dreamed up (the first is based in TX where I am from and co-owned with my bestie from grad school), and the second to be named after a mineral. I have a collection of rocks that I adore and it just felt natural to add to the collection symbolically. Amethyst is one of my favorite Crystals because I love the deep, moody purple hue. Amethyst is also thought to inspire and support wisdom and intuition by some, and whether you buy into the metaphysical or not - I think it is lovely symbolism.
The term “Holistic” within the practice title is important because I believe mental health cannot be fully understood without considering physical health and limitations, the environments and systems we operate within and which have shaped our beliefs - as well as our creative (and for some spiritual, whatever that means for you) well-being. I also value collaboration with other providers (psychiatric providers, dietitians etc.) as a crucial element of supporting holistic care.
Endorsements
Lea is so warm and caring, she’s incredibly easy to talk to. Her relational approach and unique lived experience as a queer, neurodivergent therapist makes her especially qualified to help folks who want to be seen, heard, and understood. As someone who values authenticity, I know I can always turn to Lea for genuine and heartfelt support - both personally and for professional consultation.
Corina Bair, LCSW
Having known Lea for over 10 years, I can firmly and confidently speak to her incredible depth of compassion, empathy and kindness. She brings in both her lived experiences, professional trainings and education as a queer, neurodivergent woman into the therapeutic space, working to validate and help clients process and disentangle what it means to have these intersecting identities as they work to understand themselves and the world around them. She truly embodies what it means to be a healer; holding space for deep hurts, traumas and intentionally carving out space to celebrate wins and revel in joy! She is a gifted therapist who intentionally works to better herself and grow so she can be a safe, affirming space for her clients. It is an honor to call her my best friend, fellow therapist and ally.