About Leslie
Leslie Cullen is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington with thirty years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and on practical ways to bring change into daily life. Her style aims to be straightforward and grounded so people can use what they learn right away.
Leslie centers therapy on what is happening in the present and on building an accurate sense of self.
Background and approach
She mixes talking work with concrete tools from cognitive and behavioral approaches. Mindful attention to thoughts and feelings is used to spot patterns and try new responses. She also draws on attachment ideas to look at how past bonds shape current reactions.
That perspective can help with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, and feeling isolated or disconnected. Jungian ideas are sometimes used to bring deeper meaning into the process for people who want that exploration. Leslie has worked with LGBT concerns, gender and sexual orientation topics, and with people facing trauma, addiction, grief, and long-term mental health challenges.
She helps people facing major life changes, caregiver stress, sleep problems, anger, or struggles with self-esteem. Sessions are meant to be collaborative and practical. Leslie helps people set clear goals, practice new skills between meetings, and track small changes over time.
The work is paced to each person’s needs and day-to-day realities.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Leslie uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try practical behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. She often pairs those tools with client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s own goals and pace, letting people guide what matters most in sessions.She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current worries and closeness with others, which can be useful for intimacy issues, relationship concerns, and feeling isolated. Together, these approaches let work be both skills-focused and personally meaningful depending on what someone needs.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Leslie will review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then suggest ways to combine methods. That plan can change as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging can support quick check-ins, homework coordination, or brief moments of support between scheduled sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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