Chris J.K. Leins, MA, LPCC-S, NCC

Chris has been treating OCD and anxiety disorders since 2015. He’s provided thousands of hours of evidence-based treatment over the course of hundreds of anxiety-related cases. Thus, Chris has extensive experience not only treating clinical anxiety, but teaching people the skills necessary to maintain their therapeutic progress over the course of time.

Chris has been formally trained in Exposure and Response Prevention (an evidence-based treatment for OCD and clinical anxiety-symptoms) and Prolonged Exposure (an evidence-based treatment for PTSD); and he’s both authored and co-authored peer-reviewed articles on the effective treatments of anxiety-related disorders. Further, Chris has presented papers and panels at the annual conferences of the International OCD Foundation, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies.

Thus, as a noted treatment specialist of OCD and anxiety disorders, Chris is the host of OCD Straight Talk, a podcast focused on ground-floor techniques, consumed in more than 125 countries, rated by listennotes.com in the top 2.5% of global podcasts, and identified by Spotify as among the top 10% of most shared podcasts in the world, 2022. Chris is passionate about helping anxious individuals take their lives back from their symptoms.

Contact Chris Leins, MA, LPCC-S, NCC directly at (419) 770-9046, or chrisleins04@gmail.com