About Leslie
Leslie Wallace is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana with 19 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or changes in their relationships. Leslie aims to make the first step feel easier by offering a steady, nonjudgmental place to talk.
Her work centers on understanding how past experiences show up in current behavior. She uses psychodynamic therapy to help people connect patterns from their history to what they feel or do now.
Background and approach
That often leads to clearer self-awareness and more helpful choices in day-to-day life. Leslie also uses mindfulness practices alongside psychodynamic work. Those practices are taught simply and with intention to reduce anxiety and lift mood.
Clients learn short exercises they can use between sessions to calm their thinking and notice feelings without getting swept away. Sessions cover a wide range of concerns, including relationship and family strain, parenting pressures, grief and loss, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life transitions.
She also addresses issues such as attachment and abandonment, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and effects of illness like cancer. Leslie structures sessions to be practical and reflective. Conversations are focused but warm, aimed at helping people spot unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding.
She works with each person at their own pace to build insight and coping skills.
How psychodynamic and mindfulness work online
Psychodynamic therapy looks at how past experiences influence current reactions. Online sessions let clients talk through patterns and moments that repeat in relationships, daily life, and emotional responses. This approach can be useful for working on long-standing issues like attachment, abandonment, or recurring relationship problems.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce worry and lift mood. In an online setting the therapist guides brief practices, then helps the client notice how those practices change thinking between sessions. Mindfulness pairs well with psychodynamic work by giving concrete tools to manage anxiety while deeper patterns are explored.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust the focus as progress is made. That shared decision-making helps match methods to what actually helps the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text are useful for brief updates, written reflections, or flexibility around a busy day. These options make therapy more accessible and help fit support into varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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