About Leesa
Leesa Starrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people who feel anxious, stressed, angry, or disconnected find clearer ways forward. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her style centers on practical steps you can use between sessions to notice progress.
Leesa emphasizes a client-centered approach that keeps the person's goals in view. She combines that with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices to address unhelpful thinking and build calmer habits.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on concrete tools for sleep, stress, coping with life changes, and managing anxiety. With ten years of experience, Leesa draws on methods that fit the situation. She uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and the Gottman Method to address communication and relationship concerns when relevant.
Her work also touches on addictive patterns, grief, parenting stress, and caregiving strain. Leesa creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through family of origin issues, control and dependency struggles, and career or life-purpose questions. She helps people identify next steps and practices that feel doable.
Short exercises and mindfulness strategies are common parts of sessions. People who come for help with compassion fatigue, chronic illness, hoarding, or forgiveness find a steady, practical approach. Leesa offers support for self-esteem, anger, sleeping problems, and ADHD-related challenges.
She focuses on what the client wants to change and supports small, sustained progress.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's goals. Online sessions allow the therapist to follow what matters most to the client while offering straightforward feedback and collaborative planning. This approach helps people feel heard and shape practical goals that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In virtual sessions, CBT uses short exercises, worksheets, and real-time problem solving to change patterns that fuel anxiety, sleep trouble, or unhealthy coping. Mindfulness therapy helps people learn simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build calm in daily moments. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt techniques as progress is made. That collaborative process can include trying different tools until something feels useful. Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video suits deeper conversations and face-to-face connection. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, skill practice, or when written reflection helps. These options give flexibility for ongoing support and practical skill-building.Questions people ask
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What this therapist 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
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