About Leslie
Leslie Mulligan is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, relationship strain, mood changes, and life transitions. She brings 24 years of experience and a calm, direct manner to sessions. Leslie speaks both English and French and works with people across a wide age range.
Her style is warm, straightforward, and present-centered. She uses a mix of conversation, practical tools, and creative exercises so clients can practice new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building for mood regulation, communication, sleep, and stress management. Leslie blends Attachment-Based, Client-Centered, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approaches with elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy. She also draws on mindfulness, body-centered practices, and art-based ideas when appropriate.
The emphasis is on what helps in daily life rather than on technical labels. Her background includes many years supporting people dealing with trauma, grief, chronic health concerns, career pressures, and caregiving stress. She has experience working with members of the military community and first responders.
Leslie aims to be direct yet compassionate and to help clients move toward clearer choices. People who choose her can expect a collaborative process. She helps clients set goals, try small changes between sessions, and track progress over time.
Communication is practical, respectful, and tailored to each person's needs.
How Leslie’s approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape emotion and trust. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in how they connect with others and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce anxiety and improve sleep and mood. These tools fit well into video or phone sessions and can be practiced between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift emotional reactions that keep them stuck in painful cycles, which can be useful for intimacy and relationship concerns when discussed in sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for lengthier therapy sessions and interactive work such as skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, coping reminders, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people match a format to the moment and need.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Maine, North Carolina
- Languages
- English, French
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