About Leslie
Leslie Rice is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people navigate relationship and family concerns. She brings a calm, respectful manner to sessions and aims to make conversations straightforward and useful.
Leslie adapts her approach to each person. She listens for what matters most and then chooses practical steps you can try between sessions. That might include habits to reduce daily worry, ways to manage strong emotions, or tools to address low mood and strained relationships.
Background and approach
Her work often blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with mindfulness and acceptance-based practices. Those methods help people notice difficult thoughts and learn how to act according to their values. Narrative techniques can also be used to make sense of stressful life events and past hurts.
Over two decades she has supported people facing grief, trauma, addiction challenges, parenting strain, identity questions, and self-esteem struggles. She also addresses issues like ADHD, body image, and anger when they come up alongside anxiety or depression. Sessions are collaborative and goal-focused.
Leslie helps clients set small, realistic steps and tracks progress together. The style is direct but compassionate, aimed at helping people feel more capable in daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts while focusing on actions that match their values. It is useful for ongoing anxiety, stress, and decisions about relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. That approach often includes simple exercises to practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Leslie collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and daily life. She checks in often and adjusts the plan as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or better when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat works well for brief updates or ongoing support between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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