About Lesley
Lesley Bartick is a licensed clinical social worker offering therapy in Florida. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, depressed, or unsure about relationships and self-worth. Lesley focuses on practical steps people can take right now to feel steadier day to day.
She uses straightforward talk and active listening to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and concrete tools to cope with life changes.
How Lesley works
Lesley draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness to shape the plan. Her background spans 15 years in clinical work across a range of emotional and life challenges. That experience informs how she tailors sessions for concerns such as postpartum mood shifts, seasonal affective disorder, caregiver stress, and problems with communication or trust.
She also addresses issues tied to immigration, divorce, and domestic violence with attention to each person's situation. Lesley places particular emphasis on helping people build self-love and clearer life purpose. She supports parents and others navigating pregnancy and childbirth-related mood changes and helps people recover from infidelity or separation.
Practical coping skills are paired with reflection to foster lasting change. People meet Lesley for short- and longer-term work depending on goals. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, aimed at creating usable strategies for everyday life.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online in various formats.
Lesley lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Lesley works with
The areas below are the ones Lesley selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Lesley’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on choosing actions that match personal values and can help with anxiety, depression, and uncertainty about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches specific skills to shift unhelpful patterns, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide what methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can suit those with limited bandwidth, chat or text works well for quick check-ins or brief coaching, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit work on coping skills and communication into a busy life.
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