About Leesa
Leesa Starrett is a licensed professional counselor who helps people who feel stressed, angry, anxious, or disconnected find more calm and connection. She focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. Conversations are collaborative and paced to each persons needs.
Leesa uses client-centered listening to understand what matters most to each person. She pairs that with mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity and with cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Background and approach
Sessions are built around goals the client sets, not a one-size-fits-all plan. Her work often addresses relationship strain, communication problems, self-esteem, grief, and the frustration that comes with life transitions. She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, addiction concerns, sleep problems, and challenges tied to aging.
Practical coping skills and clearer priorities are common outcomes of her work together with clients. Leesa draws on ten years of counseling experience in Texas. She uses plain language in sessions and encourages small steps that add up to real change.
The therapist-focused methods include motivational interviewing when someone needs help finding drive and the Gottman Method for relationship-focused work. Many clients come for short-term problem solving and stay for deeper work when needed. Leesa helps people notice what they already do well, build on those strengths, and try new habits that make daily life easier.
She aims for therapy to feel understandable, manageable, and useful.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's priorities and building sessions around what matters most to them. It helps people feel heard and supports steady progress toward goals through empathy and active listening.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In short, clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking, try small behavior changes, and practice skills that reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and lift mood.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention exercises and grounding practices that lower reactivity. These techniques are useful for stress, anger, grief, and compassion fatigue because they help people respond rather than react.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their situation, goals, and preferences. Plans can change as needs evolve, and decisions are made together.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and relationship work. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share between sessions, check progress, and get brief support when a quick touchpoint helps fit therapy into a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English