About Leslie
Leslie Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 24 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress and anxiety and helps them find steadier footing. Her approach is respectful and rooted in listening first.
Leslie spent many years working in the New York City public school system before moving into full-time therapy. That background shaped her practical, down-to-earth style. She draws on long experience helping people navigate family conflict, anger, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and simple tools. She helps clients identify strengths, build routines that reduce stress, and practice skills for handling strong emotions. Conversations are tailored to each person’s needs and values.
Clients come for a range of concerns including trauma and grief, parenting and adoption-related challenges, communication problems, addiction recovery, and struggles with self-esteem. Leslie also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and life transitions. Her work stresses collaboration.
She views each person as the expert on their life and offers guidance, coaching, and practical strategies. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Leslie aims to make the process straightforward and supportive.
How Leslie Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Leslie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional regulation. One common approach she uses teaches concrete coping skills and behavioral strategies to manage anxiety and stress. This helps people reduce overwhelm and handle daily triggers with more ease.Another approach emphasizes emotion-focused work that helps people name and tolerate strong feelings. That method supports recovery from trauma, grief, and difficult relationship moments by building steady skills for managing intense reactions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Leslie works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful in real life. She adjusts methods over time so the work fits the client’s situation and pace.
Online therapy with Leslie is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session where visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter, flexible check-ins and support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep regular contact during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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