About Leslie
Dr. Leslie Davis greets people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or major life changes. She offers straightforward support and helps clients find practical steps to feel steadier.
Her approach aims to make therapy understandable and doable for busy lives. Leslie is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with ten years of experience working in Virginia. She has helped people facing depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, and struggles with sleep, eating, or substance use.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with burnout, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges. In sessions she draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centered conversation. That means she pays attention to how early relationships shape current feelings and follows each person’s lead during talks.
She also uses practical cognitive-behavioral tools to help change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Her style is respectful and sensitive. She works with each person to build a plan that fits their needs and daily life.
She encourages small, realistic steps that can make a difference between appointments. Therapy can feel intimidating at first, and she acknowledges that first step takes courage. Her goal is to create steady progress through clear goals, gentle challenge, and collaboration on what will help most.
Approaches that translate to online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions use talk and guided reflection to spot attachment patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful habits and reduce anxiety. Client-centered therapy centers the session on the client's experience and preferences, with the therapist following the client's lead and reflecting what matters most in the moment.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to weigh goals, needs, and comfort with different methods. Together they try approaches and adjust plans so sessions feel useful and manageable.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people speak face to face when that helps, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can be used for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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