About Leslie
Leslie M. Brown is a Florida licensed marriage and family therapist with 12 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, and relationship or intimacy issues.
Leslie also supports clients dealing with parenting challenges, career strain, ADHD, trauma and abuse, and identity concerns related to LGBT issues. Her style is warm and optimistic, with a sense of humor when appropriate. She treats people with respect and avoids stigmatizing labels.
How Leslie works
Leslie aims to build a strong working relationship and tailors each session to the person's needs. Leslie blends practical, goal-focused techniques with a person-centered stance. That means she helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors while keeping the conversation focused on each person's values and goals.
She uses CBT and acceptance-based ideas to manage symptoms, and draws on DBT skills when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. She has experience helping people from marginalized communities and those who have faced religious or spiritual abuse.
Leslie also works with concerns linked to adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, blended family issues, and separation or divorce. Leslie approaches therapy as a collaborative process. She listens for what matters most to a person, then creates clear, practical steps to address those concerns.
Her goal is to help people move through difficult times and toward a life that fits their values.
Leslie lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Leslie works with
The areas below are the ones Leslie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- 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
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Leslie uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that improve mood and functioning. CBT is practical and can help with anxiety, depression, addiction, and coping with life changes.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action, even when difficult feelings are present. ACT helps people build a meaningful life alongside ongoing stress or symptoms. When emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities, elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy are used to teach concrete skills for handling intense emotions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Leslie will listen to goals and preferences, explain options, and together decide what methods to try. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is working for each person.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and full interaction. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help make therapy practical and easier to fit into everyday life.
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