Practitioner record · Checked 10 Oct 2026
Asia Leak has been in practice 8 years and is licensed in District of Columbia. Asia lists trauma and abuse and bipolar disorder among 10 subjects on the BetterHelp roster.
Everything below is either quoted from Asia's own BetterHelp listing, taken from public licensing records, or written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such. Nothing here is an availability promise, a review, or a rating.
01 · Who Asia works with
Asia lists 2 specialisms and 8 further focus areas. Specialisms are the subjects Asia chose to list first, which is the closest a listing gets to “this is my actual practice”.
02 · In Asia's own words
Reproduced in full and unedited - not summarised, not tightened, not rewritten in a house voice.
Asia Vianna Leak Clinical Mental Health Counselor, MD, DC & VA
As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in the state of Maryland as well as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the District of Columbia and Virginia. Asia Vianna Leak aims to hold safe space for youth and adults to navigate the discomfort that comes with healing and growth. Asia Vianna believes that every person is born complete, with everything they need to thrive in this life and aims for her clients to see that capacity within themselves.
Asia is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where she studied Clinical Mental Health Counseling, while also completing additional coursework in Dance/Movement Therapy through the Harkness Dance Center in New York. Asia is a Nationally Certified Counselor, a Dance/Movement Therapist and an Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher. Asia’s eclectic practice of counseling combines trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy with narrative theory and EMDR as well as somatic & mindfulness-based theories. She works to empower her clients by deepening their understanding of the connection between their thoughts, feelings and behaviors, while assisting them in reauthoring the stories of their lives through working to resolve traumatic and adverse experiences. In session, Asia offers various mindfulness and mind-body connection exercises, as a way to strengthen her clients relationship with themselves.
Asia has always had a passion for working with children and adolescents. That passion led to the creation of The Waiting Game © 2016; a therapeutic board game designed to help children experiencing the loss surrounding the incarceration of a parent. Asia loves using play interventions with her clients. Additionally, Asia is passionate about movement and uses both dance therapy and yoga as a tool to support her client’s journey to mental wellness. Asia believes in the power of movement as a way to befriend the body and find emotional healing. Asia wholeheartedly believes that true restoration is absolutely possible.
“The wound is where the light enters.” - Rumi
Asia Leak, on the BetterHelp listing · read 10 Oct 2026
03 · What happens next
Asia practises through BetterHelp, so the route in is BetterHelp's. This is that sequence, written by Maker Therapy from the platform's published process - not a description of Asia's own practice, and not a promise about how quickly anything happens.
BetterHelp opens with a set of questions about what you are dealing with, what you want from therapy, and any preferences on the therapist. You are not booking Asia at this point.
BetterHelp matches algorithmically by default, so asking for Asia is a step you have to take. There is a field for requesting a specific therapist during sign-up, and you can switch afterwards from your account. Starting from a link on this page does not by itself assign you to Asia.
You will be offered somebody else rather than put on a waitlist. Worth knowing, because it is easy to assume a match is the person you asked for.
A first session is typically history and orientation: what brought you, what has been tried, what you want to be different. It is also where the questions in the next section belong.
Changing therapist on BetterHelp does not need a reason. A first session that does not click is common and is not a verdict on therapy. That option existing is the main practical difference between a platform and a private practice.
04 · Before you commit
Built from what Asia actually lists, so they are answerable and specific rather than generic. Maker Therapy's, not Asia's - Asia has not seen them and is under no obligation to answer any of them.
“How do you decide when someone is ready to work on a traumatic memory itself?”
Pacing is the biggest safety question in trauma work. A clear, unhurried answer here matters more than any credential.
“How do you handle the gap between sessions if something comes up?”
On BetterHelp this varies a great deal by therapist. Better to know the rhythm now than to discover it on a bad week.
05 · Practical details
06 · Provenance
Asia's name, credential, state, subjects, approaches and biography are read from BetterHelp's therapist roster, which Maker Therapy re-reads once a day; this page reflects the reading taken on 10 Oct 2026. The licence number and NPI are cross-checked against public registers.
The plain-English method descriptions, the first-session walkthrough and the questions are written by Maker Therapy and labelled as such wherever they appear.
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