About Leslie
Leslie M. Brown is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety and navigate major life changes.
Leslie works with concerns like depression, grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting challenges. Her style is warm and direct with a sense of humor. She emphasizes respect and sensitivity and avoids stigmatizing labels.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation and goals.
Background and approach
Leslie draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings and focus on values-based action. Client-centered principles guide the pace and tone of sessions so people feel heard and understood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. The Gottman Method informs work around communication and relationship patterns. Leslie combines these approaches based on what each person needs most.
Leslie has experience supporting people from marginalized communities and those facing discrimination or spiritual and religious harm. She aims to create an atmosphere of safety and respect while working collaboratively on practical steps forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Leslie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior to reduce distress and build more effective habits.She also draws on Client-Centered principles to keep sessions focused on the person in front of her. That means listening closely, adjusting pace to the client's comfort, and collaborating on goals. Finding the right approach is part of the process and she works together with each person to decide what fits best for their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide practical flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skills practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging can make short course corrections and reminders easier to fit into a busy day. These options help people access consistent care while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- 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
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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