About Lesley
Lesley Poblete-Creech is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and the everyday challenges of life. She brings 12 years of experience working with transitional age youth and adults. Lesley uses straightforward tools so people can start feeling more in control sooner.
She blends practical strategies with mindfulness and movement. Sessions may include breathing work, grounding exercises, and discussion of choices that match a person’s values.
Background and approach
Lesley also offers yoga-informed techniques she learned as a 200-hour certified yoga teacher to help with calm and body awareness. Her approach mixes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral strategies, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills. That combination aims to help people notice thoughts, choose helpful actions, and build skills for tough moments.
Lesley often teaches DBT skills that focus on emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Lesley prefers to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak openly about feelings and goals. She works collaboratively to set practical steps toward change.
Conversations are paced to fit each person’s comfort and schedule. She practices in Missouri and has experience supporting concerns like parenting strain, grief, addictions, ADHD, trauma, and intimacy-related issues. Lesley emphasizes small, steady changes that add up over time and encourages people to lean into what matters to them.
Therapeutic approaches you can access online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most and commit to actions that reflect those values. It focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and taking meaningful steps even when things feel difficult. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change patterns that keep stress and anxiety active. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills support emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication in tense moments.Deciding which approach fits best is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and life demands to choose methods that feel right. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as goals shift or new issues arise.
Online sessions make this work more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people use written tools between calls and check in more frequently. These formats help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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