About Lesley
Lesley Poblete-Creech is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Missouri with 12 years of direct-practice experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, career concerns, addiction, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Lesley uses a straightforward, compassionate approach and aims to help people take practical steps toward change.
Lesley combines evidence-based talk therapy with mindfulness and skills practice. Sessions often include exercises drawn from cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment work, and dialectical behavior skills.
How Lesley works
She also brings breathing and gentle movement ideas from her yoga training to help clients build presence and reduce tension. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She prioritizes creating a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be named without judgment.
Together with each person she sets goals and tries tools to see what fits their life and routines. Lesley has run DBT skills groups for adults and young adults and has experience supporting people through relationship and parenting stresses, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and neurodiversity-related needs.
She also works with clients coping with chronic illness, caregiver burden, body image, and co-occurring challenges. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Lesley emphasizes steady progress, practical skills, and finding daily habits that bring more purpose and balance.
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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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match what matters most. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by clarifying values and building small committed steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for stress, sleep issues, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to reduce reactivity and improve relationships.Choosing which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative planning aims to match methods to real-life needs rather than sticking to one formula.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people talk face-to-face when a longer session or visual cues help. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat or text messaging can support ongoing coaching-style exchanges or brief skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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