About Leslie
Leslie Westbrook is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She brings five years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and low self-esteem. Her style is warm and direct, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
Leslie uses clear, practical tools in sessions. She helps people name what feels hard and then builds small, doable steps toward relief.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills practice, talk therapy, and guided strategies to handle day-to-day triggers. Her trauma work centers on pacing and safety. She blends approaches that address symptoms and the stories behind them, working with each person's pace and comfort.
That can mean teaching grounding techniques, processing painful memories, or shifting unhelpful thinking patterns. Leslie draws from cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thoughts and from dialectical skills for emotional regulation. She also integrates mindfulness practices and trauma-focused techniques when they fit the client’s needs.
EMDR and psychodynamic ideas are available parts of her toolkit when appropriate. People who want a collaborative, compassionate therapist tend to do well with her approach. She explains options clearly and helps clients choose the path that matches their goals.
Her work is practical, focused on what will help in daily life, and paced to each person’s readiness.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety and trauma care
Leslie frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions typically involve identifying anxious thinking, testing those thoughts in real life, and practicing concrete coping steps that reduce symptoms over time.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance. DBT techniques teach breathing and grounding tools, ways to tolerate strong feelings, and strategies for clearer communication during high-stress moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Leslie will talk through options, ask about goals and daily life, and try methods that match each person’s needs. She checks in often and adjusts methods based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people work face to face from home, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break, chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around family and work schedules.
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- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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