About Leslie
Leslie Scott is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports those facing parenting and family challenges and people wrestling with self-esteem, sleep problems, anger, or career stress.
Leslie takes a practical approach and treats each person as the expert on their life. She listens to what matters most and works with clients to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what changes will make daily life easier and more meaningful. Her background includes long experience with trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and issues connected to adoption, attachment, and caregiver stress. She also addresses addiction, domestic violence aftermath, and end-of-life and hospice concerns.
Language for sessions is English, and she accepts international clients. Leslie offers several session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Pricing varies by location and follows a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Many people find starting therapy hard. Leslie encourages small first steps like completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling an initial session. That process helps match priorities and pick a workable time to begin.
Therapeutic Methods and Online Options
Leslie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change and coping. One common approach she uses helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced thinking to reduce anxiety and depression. Another approach emphasizes building skills for emotional regulation and stress management so clients can handle intense feelings and daily pressures more effectively.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Leslie listens to each person’s goals, preferences, and life situation to decide which methods to try first. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is working and what needs to change so therapy stays focused and useful.
Online therapy makes sessions more flexible and easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls are useful when visual cues help the conversation, phone sessions can be a lighter option that needs less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging works well for quick check-ins or when people prefer writing. These formats let clients connect from different places and schedules while keeping sessions consistent with their treatment goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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