Dr. Luigi Leos

You may know what you believe and still find yourself struggling to live the way you want to live. Maybe anxiety or fear keeps taking over, anger is affecting your relationships, depression has left you feeling stuck, or you and your spouse keep falling into the same patterns despite your best efforts to change them. You may even wonder why your faith hasn’t made these struggles easier. Knowing what is true and knowing how to experience meaningful change are not always the same thing.

I work with individuals and couples who want practical help understanding what keeps them stuck and learning how to respond differently. For clients who desire it, I integrate Christian faith with evidence-based therapy so that psychological insight and biblical wisdom can work together rather than feeling like competing approaches. My goal is not simply to tell you what you should do or believe, but to help you understand the patterns underneath your struggles and develop practical ways to create lasting change.

That distinction is personal to me. Early in my own marriage, I had a discouraging experience with Christian counseling in which a complicated struggle was essentially met with, “What you’re doing is a sin. Stop it.” I left believing there had to be more to meaningful Christian counseling than simply telling hurting people what they were doing wrong. That experience helped shape the kind of therapist I wanted to become: one who takes both faith and psychological science seriously and helps clients apply them to the realities of everyday life.

For couples, good intentions and love for one another don’t always prevent disconnection. You may try to communicate only to discover that your partner heard something completely different from what you intended. The result can be defensiveness, frustration, hurt, or the same argument happening again and again. I help couples slow down these patterns, understand what is happening underneath their interactions, and learn healthier ways to communicate, connect, and respond to one another.

My approach considers the whole person. Emotional and relational problems rarely exist in only one part of our lives, so therapy may involve understanding how your body responds to stress, how your thoughts influence your behavior, how you experience and regulate emotions, how you relate to other people, and, when desired, how your relationship with God and your spiritual life intersect with these experiences.

Depending on your needs, I draw from evidence-based approaches including EMDR, biofeedback, and Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed guided imagery, along with interventions addressing thoughts, emotions, behavior, and relationships. I work with concerns including anxiety, depression, anger, relationship difficulties, spiritual concerns, and patterns that continue despite your efforts to change them.

For Christian clients, faith integration can include exploring Scripture, spiritual beliefs, and your relationship with God as meaningful parts of the therapeutic process. I believe Christian counseling should be a place where difficult questions, painful emotions, doubt, failure, and relationship struggles can be discussed honestly and without condemnation. Faith integration is based on each client’s preferences and goals.

Dr. Luis “Luigi” Leos has been a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas since 2007 and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Colorado since 2020. He earned his Ph.D. in Counseling with a minor in Clinical Psychology, Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and Master’s degree in Christian Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Dr. Leos completed clinical training at Millwood Psychiatric Hospital in Arlington and the intensive outpatient program at Meier Clinics in Richardson. He subsequently spent eight years with Meier Clinics providing marriage and family therapy and outpatient treatment for individuals with clinical mental health disorders and later served as a clinical director at Spirit Counseling TX. He has also taught university courses in clinical diagnosis, family theory, military-to-civilian reintegration, and the treatment of adolescents.

In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Leos has decades of experience working with business owners, executives, and CEOs as an executive coach and business consultant. He has also led divorce recovery and other support groups and has served in a variety of teaching and leadership roles within his church.