About Leesa
Leesa Starrett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and ADHD-related concerns. She speaks plainly and works with each person to identify what matters most and practical steps to move forward.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aiming to make the first steps feel easier for worried parents and busy adults. Leesa builds short-term goals and longer plans together with clients.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered work to listen deeply and follow the client’s own priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try concrete behavior changes. Mindfulness practices and brief motivational interviewing are added when they fit a person’s needs.
These methods support managing strong emotions, improving focus, and finding motivation to try new strategies. She also draws on approaches from the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are part of the concern. Sessions are practical and straightforward.
Leesa helps people develop tactics for better sleep, coping with life changes, and handling caregiver stress or chronic health challenges. She emphasizes small, achievable steps so progress can be seen between sessions. With ten years of experience as an LPC in Texas, she works with people facing addictions, career stress, hoarding, and family-of-origin issues.
Leesa encourages a collaborative pace so goals reflect each person’s values and daily life.
Online approaches that fit daily life
Leesa commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy to make room for each person’s priorities and to guide conversations at the client’s pace. This approach focuses on listening, validating experiences, and shaping goals from what matters most to the client.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people identify and test unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT often helps with anxiety, sleep problems, ADHD-related focus issues, and mood shifts by offering clear strategies to practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and everyday routines, then recommend methods that fit. That collaboration helps shape session frequency, homework, and which techniques to emphasize.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit a busy day and let someone share brief updates or work through ideas between sessions. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit work, family, and caregiving schedules.
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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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