About Lesa
Lesa Leiden is a licensed counselor (LPC) and licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 21 years of experience helping people facing relationship and family concerns. She works with adults who are struggling with intimacy, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and major life changes. Lesa also supports people navigating ADHD, self-esteem challenges, and issues around infidelity, jealousy, or commitment.
Her style is calm and straightforward. Lesa listens first and helps people describe what matters most to them.
How Lesa works
She focuses on clear communication and small, practical steps that can ease stress and rebuild connection. Lesa draws on several approaches when they fit the client's needs. She uses client-centered methods to follow the person's priorities.
She applies cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also uses elements of the Gottman Method to address relationship patterns and improve communication. Sessions explore what is happening now and what patterns from the past might be shaping current feelings.
Lesa helps people set realistic goals, try different strategies between sessions, and notice what works. She offers support for blended family concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, fertility and parenting issues, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. Lesa practices from Oregon and conducts sessions in English.
Her approach aims to be practical and compassionate, helping people make steady changes and regain a sense of direction.
Lesa lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Lesa works with
The areas below are the ones Lesa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Approaches and Online Therapy Options
Lesa uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral tools in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means the conversation follows the persons priorities and values, helping them feel heard and clear about goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety or depression.She also draws on the Gottman Method for relationship work, which looks at interaction patterns and teaches practical skills to improve communication and decrease conflict. These methods can help with intimacy issues, trust concerns, parenting stress, and managing life transitions.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that seem likely to help, and adjust over time based on what the person finds useful. Finding the right fit is part of the work together.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy schedules. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for deeper relational work. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to touch base between sessions or to have therapy without being on camera, offering flexibility for different needs and routines.
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