Counseling
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Start the conversationPsychotherapist · Executive coach · Author
Discover the
possibility of you.
For more than forty years, David Leifeste has sat with high-achieving people who did everything right and still felt something was missing. What he learned became the O.A.S.I.S. Method — a way back to your true self, and to a life of purpose and passion.
40+
years in practice
50,000+
lives changed
100,000+
counseling conversations
M.S., L.P.C.
licensed clinician
Meet David
Four decades of helping people get unstuck.
David Leifeste, M.S., L.P.C., has spent more than forty years in counseling, executive coaching, and public speaking. Across a hundred thousand conversations, he has helped over 50,000 people overcome what was holding them back and step into new levels of personal and professional success.
His conviction is simple: you don't have to become someone new. Power, possibility, and purpose come from your true self — the work is finding your way back to it.
More about David
The book
The Possibility of You
After decades of guiding people through life-changing breakthroughs, David distilled what his most successful hours in the counseling room had in common into five principles — the O.A.S.I.S. Method. The book pairs his most memorable stories with the tools to shift how you think about yourself, your struggles, and your relationships.
So you can make the rest of your life the best of your life.
The O.A.S.I.S. Method
Change from the inside out.
Watching thousands of people break through, David noticed the same pattern of thinking and behavior every time. He named it O.A.S.I.S. — five steps from the story that keeps you stuck to the life that fits who you really are.
O01
Open
Get honest about where you are — and open to what's possible.
A02
Analyze
Find the story you've been living by, and where it came from.
S03
Sense
Reconnect with what you actually feel, want, and value.
I04
Ideate
Imagine the life that fits the person you really are.
S05
Shift
Make the move — one deliberate, sustainable change at a time.
Journey with David
Four ways to begin.
Executive Coaching
Maximize your leadership potential through clinically-informed coaching and executive development.
Start the conversationThe Book
Learn to apply David's life-changing O.A.S.I.S. Method in The Possibility of You — in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook.
Get the bookSpeaking
Challenge and inspire your audience — bring David's storytelling and four decades of insight to your next event.
Book David to speakIn David's words
“I've always loved hearing people's stories. Along the way, I've discovered some exciting truths that can dramatically change how we journey through life — and where that journey leads. I'd love to share them with you.”
David Leifeste, M.S., L.P.C.
The OASIS community
You don't have to make the journey alone.
Join OASIS — David's free online community. Weekly gatherings with David, honest conversation, and the book's method put into practice alongside people walking the same road.
In their words
What people take away.
Reflections shared by people from David's work over the years. Names are shortened to protect their privacy.
“David changed my life. I'm able to be my true self, and it feels AMAZING!!”
“David brings not just a deep understanding of human behavior and complex social systems, but a practical and meaningful application of those skills.”
“David helped me assess my own personality and family history, and he gave me practical methods to improve myself and my more challenging relationships.”
“Because of David's expertise, support, professionalism and sheer genuineness, I am more confident, loving toward myself, and professionally successful.”
Also from David · New
The David Leifeste Podcast
Conversations on success, meaning, and the possibility of you. David sits down with people who stopped performing and started living — the same honest work of the counseling room, opened up for anyone ready to listen.
Between interviews, his solo “Field Notes” take a single idea from the O.A.S.I.S. Method and turn it over in ten quiet minutes.
Visit the podcastLaunching soon on Apple Podcasts, Spotify & YouTube.
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