Lyndril Leonard, M.A., LCMHC

Lyndril Leonard, MA, LCMHC is Executive Vice President / Chief Operating Officer for Behavioral Health Services for Monarch. She oversees Monarch’s outpatient and enhanced services day-to-day operations statewide. She also helps direct the company’s service expansion strategies.

Lyndril joined Monarch in October 2013 as the Clinical Operations Director in the Partners Managed Care Organization (MCO) catchment area and served as the Vice President of Enhanced Services prior to moving into her current role. 

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Belmont Abbey College, and a Master of Arts degree in counseling from Webster University. As a North Carolina licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC), Lyndril has experience working with children, adolescents and adults. She has more than two decades of experience working in the field of mental health, substance use disorders and developmental disabilities. She has worked in various capacities at different levels within the mental health care system including outpatient private practice, residential group homes, community-based services, case management, and psychiatric outpatient clinics.

Lyndril lives in Lake Wylie, S.C., with her husband Cotye and their son, Cotye Jr.