About Lesley
Lesley Eckhardt offers calm, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or big life changes. She introduces steady support and clear steps so clients can work through problems and start making small, useful changes right away. Lesley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, based in Florida with 27 years of experience.
She has a long history working with trauma, attachment issues, depression, ADHD, and caregiving stress.
How Lesley works
Her approach centers on understanding each person’s story and building skills that fit everyday life. Sessions focus on what the person wants to change. Lesley blends approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, acceptance-based tools to live with difficult feelings, and attachment work to improve how people relate to others.
She also draws on client-centered care to keep the person’s values and goals front and center. She has worked across crisis counseling, school-based settings, therapeutic foster care, and adoption-related services. That background informs a practical style that looks at both individual needs and surrounding relationships when helpful.
In therapy people can expect straightforward conversation, skill-building, and problem solving tailored to daily life. Lesley aims to help clients reduce overwhelm, rebuild confidence, and take clearer steps toward the changes they want. For those seeking a steady, experienced clinician, she offers online formats that match different schedules and day-to-day demands.
Lesley lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Lesley often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then refocus on actions that match their values. That approach can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions.She also applies Attachment-Based Therapy to look at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds affect current trust and connection. This work is useful for people dealing with relationship strain, abandonment concerns, or family-of-origin issues.
Finding the right approach is part of how she works. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and day-to-day life. Techniques may change over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care fit different schedules. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation when helpful, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can support shorter check-ins or ongoing reminders between sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while managing school, work, or caregiving responsibilities.
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