About Leslie
Leslie Mulligan offers calm, straightforward help for people under stress and strain. She focuses on problems like anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, substance struggles, grief, and life transitions. Leslie uses plain language and practical steps so conversations feel useful from the first meeting.
With 24 years of practice, Leslie blends approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current feelings.
How Leslie works
She uses cognitive tools to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills when intense emotions or self-destructive patterns get in the way. Leslie describes her style as warm, direct, present-centered, and interactive. Sessions tend to be a mix of talking, skill-building, and creative tasks that help people practice change between meetings.
She pays attention to the whole person - mind, body, heart, and life experience - when planning work together. Her background includes long experience with trauma recovery and work with people facing health, aging, career, and caregiving stress. She also supports those coping with identity and sexual concerns, body image, and chronic illness.
Leslie aims to help people clarify their goals and take steady steps toward a more manageable life. Leslie is licensed in Maine as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and in Maine as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor. She offers sessions in English and French and works with international clients through online formats.
Leslie lists 16 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCMHC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English, French |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches available online
Leslie uses attachment-based work to explore how early and close relationships affect current patterns of trust, closeness, and emotion regulation; this helps people who struggle with intimacy, abandonment worries, or repeating relational patterns. She also employs cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and teaches practical ways to shift thinking and behavior for problems like anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when strong emotions or impulsive behavior interfere with daily life; DBT provides clear tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then suggest methods to try and adjust the plan as needed. Work is paced to fit the client's comfort and practical life demands.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for more in-depth sessions where seeing facial cues helps the work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins, skill practice, or quick scheduling flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to access a licensed professional from different locations.
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