Asia Leak, LPC, MD, LCPC

Asia Vianna Leak is a licensed counselor who holds a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) credential in Maryland and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) credential in the District of Columbia and Virginia. She creates a supportive space for youth and adults to face the discomfort that often accompanies healing and personal growth, guiding clients toward recognizing the strengths they already possess.

Asia earned degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where she studied Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She also completed additional coursework in dance and movement through New York's Harkness Dance Center. In addition to her counseling licenses, Asia is a Nationally Certified Counselor, trained as a Dance/Movement Therapist, and is an Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher, qualifications she incorporates into her practice.

Her clinical approach blends trauma-focused cognitive behavioral techniques with narrative theory and EMDR, alongside somatic and mindfulness-informed practices. Asia helps clients deepen their awareness of the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and supports them in reauthoring life stories to address traumatic and adverse experiences. In session she often offers mindfulness and mind-body exercises and uses play, movement, and yoga as therapeutic tools. Her work with children and adolescents inspired The Waiting Game © 2016, a therapeutic board game designed to help kids cope with the loss tied to a parent’s incarceration.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Asia draws on trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns related to traumatic events; this approach is useful for reducing distress and building coping skills. She also incorporates EMDR, a structured therapy that supports processing of traumatic memories through guided bilateral stimulation and targeted reprocessing, often used for post-traumatic stress and related symptoms. Additionally, Asia uses somatic and mindfulness-informed practices to help clients reconnect with bodily sensations and develop skills for grounding and emotional regulation, which can be especially helpful when trauma is stored in the body.

Finding the right combination of techniques is part of the therapeutic process. Asia works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the approach over time as progress and comfort evolve. Licensed professionals and therapists can adapt these evidence-based methods to remote formats so the work remains focused and effective.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging let clients choose what works best for their schedule and comfort. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, access support from home or work, and fit therapy into everyday life without sacrificing therapeutic depth.