About Leslie
Leslie Rice is a licensed clinical social worker with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She practices in North Carolina and focuses on practical steps people can take to feel steadier and more capable. Leslie approaches sessions with respect, sensitivity, and a down-to-earth manner.
She uses talk, skills practice, and short-term strategies to manage overwhelming emotions. Leslie draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and on mindfulness to anchor attention in the present.
How Leslie works
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people identify values and take actions that match what matters to them. Leslie works with many different concerns, including relationship and family tensions, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, and issues related to gender and sexual identity. She also supports people facing parenting stress, anger, low self-esteem, and attention challenges.
Additional focuses include blended family dynamics, body image, dissociation, and end-of-life counseling. Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions are tailored to each person’s goals, with clear steps and homework when helpful.
Leslie emphasizes building coping skills, improving communication, and reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life. People who meet with Leslie can expect direct, compassionate guidance aimed at realistic change. She helps clients sort priorities, try new behaviors, and track progress over time.
The work is paced to fit what each person needs and can manage.
Leslie lists 7 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How Leslie Uses Practical Approaches Online
Leslie commonly draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps you notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy focuses on clarifying personal values and taking actions that move you toward a meaningful life while allowing difficult feelings to exist without being driven by them.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Leslie meets each person where they are and discusses options together. She will help you decide which methods fit your goals, preferences, and the issues you want to address, and then adapt techniques as you make progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible care. Video is useful when visual cues and deeper conversation help, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing coaching between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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