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Emotion Liberation Model™

What if your emotions
were never the problem?

The ELM™ is built on one radical premise: your emotional system is not broken. It is brilliant. And it has been trying to tell you something.

Mx. Randall Leonard, LICSW, LCSW-C  ·  They/Them
Clinical Social Worker  ·  Executive Coach  ·  Speaker  ·  Creator of the ELM™

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Liberation Psychology Emotion-Focused Practice Executive Coaching Clinical Training Keynotes & Speaking
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The Reframe

We were taught to manage our emotions.
What if we were meant to listen to them?

For generations, and for communities whose emotional lives have been systematically suppressed, emotions have been framed as problems to control, symptoms to treat, or weaknesses to overcome.

The Emotion Liberation Model™ starts somewhere different. Emotions are radar systems. Ancient, precise, and deeply intelligent.

Anger protects your boundaries
Fear scans for threat
Sadness processes what was lost
Joy signals alignment
Disgust guards your identity

Emotion is not the obstacle. It's the compass.

Emotion Liberation Model — brain, elm tree, and cosmos
The Framework

Meet the Emotion Liberation Model™

The ELM is a clinical and coaching framework grounded in liberation psychology and neuroscience. Developed through over a decade of clinical observation, community practice, and scholarly study by Mx. Randall Leonard.

It positions each core emotion as a protective system with its own intelligence, directionality, and purpose. This is not a management model. It is a liberation model. The goal is not to quiet your emotional system. It is to help you hear it more clearly.

"Emotion is not the obstacle — it's the compass."
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How We Work Together

What ENBY Consulting does

We work with executives, clinicians, cooperatives, and community organizations. If you are doing the work of liberation — we are already aligned.

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Leadership Coaching

For executives, cooperatives, and community leaders

Whether navigating a C-suite, stewarding a cooperative, or leading a community organization through change — coaching through the ELM™ builds emotional sovereignty and leadership that sustains rather than depletes. Not optimization. Alignment.

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Clinical Training & Consultation

For clinicians, therapists, and helping professionals

A structured, teachable framework for emotion-focused practice rooted in liberation psychology. Available for individuals, clinical teams, and organizations. Clinicians leave equipped to use the ELM as a core clinical language.

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Organizational Consulting

For organizations ready to go deeper

Beyond DEI checklists toward genuine emotional sustainability. ENBY Consulting helps teams build systems of care where authenticity is not aspirational. It is structural.

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Speaking & Keynotes

A voice that changes the room.

Mx. Randall Leonard brings liberation psychology to stages, conferences, and training rooms across the country — weaving neuroscience, ancestral wisdom, and clinical precision into presentations as rigorous as they are transformative.

Recent keynotes include the Meaningful Care Conference, presented on Trans Day of Visibility. Randall's speaking is not performance. It is practice.

Emotion Liberation as Community Care The ELM in Clinical Settings Queer and Trans Mental Health Emotional Sovereignty and Systemic Oppression Neuroscience Meets Liberation Psychology
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The Team

The people behind the work

Mx. Randall Leonard
Founder & Principal Consultant

Mx. Randall Leonard

LICSW, LCSW-C · They/Them

Creator of the ELM™. Black nonbinary clinical social worker, executive coach, and community healer. The ELM™ is liberation psychology meets neuroscience — developed through over a decade of clinical observation and tested in the field.

Stephanie Leonard
Chief Operating Officer

Stephanie Leonard

PMP, SPC, CSM, ICP · She/Her

Nearly 20 years in project and program management. Brings Agile precision and high emotional intelligence to the operational backbone of ENBY. Known for leading global teams and building collaborative environments where people actually thrive.

Aidan Grennell Cormier
Consultant, Trainer & Researcher

Aidan L. Grennell Cormier

LMSW, MPH · They/Them

Queer educator, advocate, and ELM researcher grounded in harm reduction and anti-racist frameworks. Believes in productive uncomfortable conversations, centering consent and the agency of both individual and community.

The ENBY Consulting team

When communities reclaim their emotional lives,
liberation becomes possible.

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About

Built from a lifetime of listening.

Mx. Randall Leonard is a Black nonbinary clinical social worker, executive coach, and liberation practitioner based in Baltimore. They hold licensure as an LICSW and LCSW-C with over a decade of experience spanning community health, crisis response, clinical practice, and organizational training.

The Emotion Liberation Model™ did not start in a textbook. It started in childhood — in the observation of how emotions move through people, through families, through communities. It grew through clinical sessions, training rooms, and keynote halls. Tested and refined in the field, not in the abstract.

"When we understand our emotions, we understand ourselves. When communities reclaim their emotional lives, liberation becomes possible."

ENBY Consulting exists because that belief belongs in boardrooms and clinical training rooms, not just therapy offices. If you lead people — organizations, teams, communities — this work is for you.

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