About Lesley
Lesley Bartick is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She focuses on practical steps that make day-to-day life easier and clearer for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck. With 15 years of experience, Lesley uses straightforward methods to improve communication, boost self-esteem, and cope with life changes.
She supports people facing postpartum challenges, seasonal mood shifts, immigration stresses, and caregiver strain.
Background and approach
She also helps those dealing with infidelity, divorce and separation, or ongoing family conflict. Lesley blends approaches like cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, and acceptance strategies to suit each person's needs. Sessions often include skill-building, short homework, and focused conversation to shift patterns that cause distress.
Motivational techniques and solution-focused steps are used when people want clear, achievable goals. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping clients find practical ways forward. Lesley emphasizes collaboration and meeting clients where they are in the moment.
She supports people as they sort priorities, improve daily routines, and build healthier ways of relating. People who choose her practice typically want down-to-earth guidance and tools that can be used between sessions. Lesley helps clients turn insights into small, manageable changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Lesley often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. This approach is useful when someone wants clear steps to change thinking patterns and daily routines.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and choose actions that match their values. ACT can be helpful for stress, life transitions, and when avoidance keeps problems going.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lesley will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and comfort level. That choice can shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break during the day. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when routines change, while still working on skills and goals with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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