About Leah
Leah Alviar is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 22 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationships, self-esteem, career concerns, and navigating life changes. Leah takes a practical, down-to-earth approach and aims to help people make steady progress toward goals they care about.
Leah draws on simple, evidence-informed techniques to help people manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. She listens first, then helps clients set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include problem-solving steps and short exercises clients can use between meetings. Her background blends counseling and education. Leah holds a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Organizational Leadership and a Master of Arts in Counseling.
She has worked as a school counselor, university instructor, and leader in counseling organizations. That mix informs how she organizes sessions and teaches new skills. Leah has taught counseling at graduate and undergraduate levels and has experience delivering courses in both online and face-to-face formats.
She has presented at conferences and contributed to professional publications. Her work with workplace and life-stage concerns makes her comfortable discussing career shifts and midlife questions. Outside of work Leah is married with three sons and enjoys outdoor activities, reading, ultrarunning, skydiving, and quilting.
She aims to create a respectful, collaborative space where people can talk through stress, find clearer direction, and practice new coping strategies.
How Leah’s approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes hearing each person’s story and adapting support to their needs. In practice this means sessions start with the client’s concerns and goals, and Leah follows the client’s lead while offering guidance and empathy.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns because it breaks problems into manageable steps and gives concrete tools to practice between sessions.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on what is working and on small, achievable changes. It helps people move toward specific goals quickly by building on strengths and past successes.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Leah will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and suggest techniques suited to those needs. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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