Leah Alviar

Leah Alviar is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 22 years of counseling experience. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and self-esteem concerns, career questions, coping with life changes, parenting challenges, and issues related to life purpose. She also addresses LGBT concerns, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue.

Leah combines client-centered approaches with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work. She frames the counselor as a guide who helps people name problems, try small changes, and track what helps. Sessions emphasize straightforward problem solving, clearer communication, and steps that fit into everyday life.

Her background includes a Ph.D. in Education with an emphasis in Organizational Leadership and an M.A. in Counseling. Leah has worked as a professional school counselor and in higher education leadership. She has taught graduate counseling courses, developed curriculum, presented at conferences, and contributed to academic publications.

Leah has experience helping people with communication problems, family challenges, guilt and shame, infidelity, postpartum depression, post-traumatic stress, and workplace issues. She also supports those facing midlife shifts, young adult transitions, and questions about life purpose. Her approach is adaptable and focused on practical steps clients can use between sessions.

Outside of work she is married and a parent of three sons. Her hobbies include ultrarunning, reading, skydiving, fishing, and quilting. This mix of professional and personal experience informs a pragmatic style that centers on clear goals and manageable change.

How Leah’s approaches translate to online work

Leah draws on client-centered therapy to focus conversations on what matters most to the client, using questions and reflection to clarify values and priorities. This approach helps when someone feels unsure about next steps or what matters in work and life.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to identify patterns of thinking and try practical experiments that can change mood and behavior. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, and routines that get stuck. Solution-focused therapy is used to set short-term goals and test small changes, which can be helpful when someone wants actionable progress during a busy week.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Leah will work with the client to decide which methods to try based on the person's goals, needs, and preferences. That means checking what works, adjusting plans, and keeping sessions practical and goal-oriented.

Confirm current session options before booking to know which formats are available. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a schedule, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and avoid travel to appointments. The emphasis is on finding ways to use therapy that fit into everyday life and support steady, manageable change.