About Leida
Dr. Leida Taflinski is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with ten years of clinical experience. She helps people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, relationships, grief, and other life changes.
Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she works to meet each person's unique needs. Dr. Taflinski uses practical conversation and collaborative planning in sessions.
She listens for the problems that matter most and then helps clients try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life strategies for managing symptoms such as worry, low mood, sleep disruption, or difficulties with intimacy. Her work draws on several therapy approaches that emphasize both thoughts and emotions. She may use exercises to notice unhelpful thinking, strengthen important relationships, and clarify personal values.
These methods aim to help people act in ways that match what matters to them even when feelings are difficult. People often come to her for a mix of issues including depression, addictions, trauma, parenting strain, career stress, or attention-related concerns. She also supports those coping with major transitions like divorce, caregiving, aging, or loss.
Treatment plans are shaped to fit each person, not a preset formula. Sessions can be conducted in English or Spanish. Dr.
Taflinski offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more accessible. To begin, a short questionnaire helps match goals and preferences before scheduling.
Approaches that guide online work and what they do
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, depression, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. It often includes simple exercises you can practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationship patterns shape feelings and closeness, and it can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and healing from abandonment or trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit your situation. You and the therapist can try different techniques and adjust plans as you learn what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for conversational sessions and visual cues. Phone calls can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing family, work, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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