Randall Leonard, LCSW-C

Randall Leonard, LCSW-C (they/them), is a proud nonbinary licensed clinical social worker specializing in the care of LGBTQIA individuals with focus on liberation-based training and healing. They hold healing space focused on the liberation of Black and Queer people through encouraging authenticity, reconnecting to history and lineage, and empowering shared lived experiences. They provide individual therapy as well as assessments for gender-affirming surgery. They also facilitate a weekly group for Black trans and gender-diverse people to process intersectionality topics between race, culture, and gender. They also serve as an LGBTQ Health Equity Trainer in the Center for LGBTQ Health Equity. Randall holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Maryland School of Social Work with a concentration in Clinical Behavioral Health. As a strong advocate for Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals, their recent achievements include testifying for the “X” gender marker on Maryland driver’s licenses, which was passed and enacted in 2019 and being featured as part of Sephora’s 2019 “We Belong to Something Beautiful” gender-diversity video campaign. Randall has previously served survivors of intimate partner violence at Family and Children’s Services, where they provided individual therapy and a weekly support group. In addition, they worked as a Behavioral Specialist in the Emergency Department of Union Memorial Hospital. They started their social work career working with people with severe and persistent mental illness at Sheppard Pratt Health Systems.