Asia Leak

Asia Leak is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who practices in the District of Columbia area. She supports people through trauma, mood challenges such as bipolar disorder, and concerns connected to pregnancy, postpartum, and young adulthood. Asia centers a respectful, movement-informed approach that helps people reconnect with their bodies and stories.

Her sessions combine trauma-focused cognitive behavioral ideas with narrative approaches and somatic practices. Asia offers simple mindfulness and mind-body exercises during meetings to help people notice how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. She draws on dance and movement techniques and yoga to help clients access emotions that words alone may not reach.

Asia has eight years of clinical experience and trained in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She also completed coursework in Dance/Movement Therapy and is a nationally certified counselor. Her work includes designing therapeutic tools for young people, including a board game to help children process parental incarceration.

In the therapy room she aims to create a calm, practical space for people to try new ways of coping. Sessions often include short exercises, storytelling, and movement-based practices when appropriate. Asia focuses on changing unhelpful patterns and helping people reauthor their self-narratives.

People who want support with trauma, sexual assault, pregnancy-related concerns, postpartum depression, or experiences of prejudice and discrimination may find her approach relevant. Those unsure about next steps can use the Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a first session.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Asia blends trauma-focused cognitive behavioral techniques with narrative and somatic methods. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral approaches look at how past events shape current thoughts and behaviors and teach practical coping skills to reduce distress. Narrative work helps people retell and reshape personal stories so they feel less defined by past harm. Somatic and movement-informed practices use breath, gentle movement, and body awareness to access feelings that can be hard to describe with words.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That process may start with a few short exercises and simple check-ins to see what feels most helpful.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as during a work break or between errands. It can reduce commute time and help people meet with a licensed professional from their own neighborhood. This profile does not list specific session formats here, so confirm current session options before booking to know which formats are offered. Sessions delivered online still focus on practical skills, movement-informed exercises when appropriate, and pacing that works for each person.