Dr. Leigh Anne Randa, Ph.D. is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist specializing in individual therapy for adults across the lifespan. She is currently accepting limited new patients in an effort to provide maximum attention to those in her practice.
Among her areas of expertise are Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Trauma Related Disorders, Complex PTSD, Depressive Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In addition to the traditional agenda driven protocols of therapy, Dr. Randa is fluent in focusing on short term therapy and life coaching approaches to helping others achieve a more fulfilling life.
Treatment Approach
I practice an interactive, evidence-based approach to therapy, utilizing a broad array of protocols including: EMDR, CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD, Exposure Therapy, Exposure and Response Prevention therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy for Depression, Skills Training in Affect and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR), and Circle of Security.
I also utilize the integration of Internal Family Systems informed therapy as a key tool to helping clients achieve their goals. The IFS model also promotes increasingly collaborative sessions, leading clients to become “Self” led. My therapeutic approach is to provide proven and effective interventions that help patients to restore optimal functioning in work, social, school, interpersonal and other important areas of their life.
By integrating complementary methodologies and techniques, I am able to offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each client. With compassion and understanding, she works with each individual to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing.
Education & Credentials
I completed my undergraduate work at the University of Washington, Tacoma and earned my masters and doctoral degrees from Seattle Pacific University in Seattle Washington. My training began with providing mental health services to our country’s Veterans, working and training in the Veterans Administration institutions. I completed my internship at the Iowa City Veterans Health Care System at Iowa City, IA and postdoctoral fellowship at the Harry S. Truman Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia, MO. I had the privilege to serve as the VA as Military Sexual Trauma Coordinator and Women’s Clinic Psychologist for the Iowa City Health Care System, and later as a member of the PTSD Clinical Team at the Veteran’s Hospital in Phoenix Arizona.
I am licensed as a Clinical Psychologist in Iowa, Arizona, California, Missouri, Kansas and most recently Oregon. Working to maintain cutting edge technology withing the mental health community, I have earned the credential of Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and achieved Certified Provider Status for CPT, PE, DBT, Circle of Security, and IPT. I believe in the importance of ongoing training and participates in advanced trainings frequently throughout the year. Most recently I earned certification as a Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) provider for those clients who self-select use of this cutting edge medicine for help with treatment resistant depression or PTSD.
Dr. Randa’s patient approach is to utilize warmth and humor to deliver evidence based therapy to her clients/patients, couched in the backdrop of believing that each person has within them the unique ability to heal and move forward. The therapeutic relationship is of primary importance to Dr. Randa, giving power to the individual as the expert on their own mental/emotional state.
