Vivid Emotion Studio is a clinical therapy practice grounded in the Emotion Liberation Model™ — a framework that treats your inner emotional life not as something to manage, but as a system to understand, honor, and hear more clearly.
The name is intentional. A studio is a working space — active, alive, creative. We don't arrive here to be observed and labeled. We arrive to do the real work of understanding our inner architecture and rebuilding our relationship with ourselves from the inside out.
Every person who walks through this practice carries an emotional system that has been running hard, often without adequate support, often without anyone telling them it was doing exactly what it was designed to do.
Emotion is not the obstacle — it's the compass.
Developed by Mx. Randall Leonard through years of clinical observation and grounded in liberation psychology, the Emotion Liberation Model™ positions each of your five core emotions as a radar system — ancient, precise, and functioning exactly as it was built to function.
The clinical work is not about quieting your emotional system. It is about learning to receive its signals more clearly, understand what each emotion is detecting, and move through life with greater cooperation between your instincts and your conscious choices.
"The goal is not the best possible management of your emotions. It is the best possible relationship with them."
Every session at Vivid Emotion Studio concludes with a personalized written reflection — a summary of the session's emotional work alongside unique clinical insights and processing prompts designed to carry the work forward through the week. This is not a clinical note. It is a lantern for the days ahead.
All services are grounded in the Emotion Liberation Model™ and carried out with a liberation psychology orientation.
For adults ready to understand themselves more deeply
One-on-one clinical therapy through the Emotion Liberation Model™. Sessions explore the emotional architecture beneath your patterns, behaviors, and ways of relating. Not symptom reduction as the endpoint — understanding as the path. Each session includes a personalized written reflection to support the week's processing.
Approaches: Emotion Focused Therapy · Acceptance & Commitment (ACT) · Liberation Psychology
Request Appointment →Available in Maryland and Rhode Island
Vivid Emotion Studio offers HIPAA-compliant telehealth via SimplePractice to clients across Maryland and Rhode Island. No commute, no parking, no finding the right outfit. Just the work. Fully functional, fully present, and fully confidential — wherever you are.
Learn More →For established Baltimore-area clients
For established clients in the Baltimore area, Mx. Leonard offers in-person nature-based sessions — bringing the therapeutic work into outdoor environments. Limited slots available. Nature therapy sessions are offered as a complement to regular telehealth practice, not as standalone services.
Inquire →For Maryland social workers seeking LCSW licensure
Mx. Randall Leonard is a Maryland-approved social work supervisor and offers supervision to social workers working toward their LCSW or LCSW-C license. Sessions are grounded in liberation psychology, ELM clinical frameworks, and culturally responsive, community-centered practice. Supervision is an opportunity not just to meet licensure hours — but to develop a clinical identity that is fully yours.
Rate: $100–$180/session. Sliding scale available for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ supervisees — reach out to discuss.
Inquire About Supervision →For therapists, clinicians, and helping professionals
Consultation on the Emotion Liberation Model™, liberation psychology in clinical practice, and working affirmingly and effectively within BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and neurodivergent communities. Available to clinicians at every stage — from those newly exploring liberation frameworks to seasoned practitioners looking to deepen and refine their approach. Whether you are building a new clinical language or interrogating an established one, this is a space for rigorous, grounded clinical thinking.
Rate: $150–$250/session. Sliding scale available for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ clinicians — reach out to discuss.
Inquire About Consultation →For clients pursuing gender-affirming care in Maryland and Rhode Island
For clients who are pursuing gender-affirming medical procedures, a supporting letter from a licensed mental health clinician is often a required part of the process. Mx. Leonard provides master's-level support letters for established clients in Maryland and Rhode Island — written with care, clinical rigor, and deep respect for each person's journey.
These letters are grounded in established clinical guidelines and written by a clinician who understands the full weight of what they represent — not just a bureaucratic requirement, but a step in someone's path toward themselves. The process is collaborative, unhurried, and centered entirely in your experience.
Available to established clients only · Maryland and Rhode Island · Contact to discuss your timeline and needs.
Reach Out to Discuss →Vivid Emotion Studio currently accepts the following insurance plans.
Don't see your insurance? Reach out — we may still be able to work together. Private pay options available.
Available to clients in Maryland and Rhode Island via SimplePractice — secure, HIPAA-compliant, and built for the way modern life moves. All that changes is the room you're sitting in.
Maryland · Rhode IslandIn-person sessions for established Baltimore-area clients, integrating outdoor environments into the therapeutic work. Movement, nature, and presence as clinical modalities. Limited availability — established clients only.
Baltimore Area · Limited Slots
They/Them/Theirs · Black, nonbinary, autistic clinical social worker and the original developer of the Emotion Liberation Model™. Mx. Leonard has spent a lifetime watching how emotions move — through individuals, through families, through communities under sustained pressure — and built a clinical framework from that observation that is empirical, liberation-grounded, and deeply human.
ELM did not begin in a textbook. It began in childhood, in the close attention paid to how people feel, why they feel it, and what that feeling is trying to protect. It has been tested in clinical sessions, refined in supervision, challenged at conferences, and applied — with care — in the lives of real people doing real work.
"You were never too emotional. You were under-supported in what your emotions were trying to tell you."
Rae Braxton · They/Them · Reiki Practicer, LRMT
Vivid Emotion Studio is home to Reiki sessions with Rae Braxton, a skilled Reiki Practicer and Licensed Reiki Master Teacher based in Baltimore. Rae brings deep care, energetic intuition, and a liberation-focused approach to their body work practice — holding space with the kind of presence that honors the whole person.