About Lesa
Lesa Leiden is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 21 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Her work is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at practical change and clearer perspective.
Lesa creates a calm space to talk through what's hard. She listens closely to each person's story before suggesting steps forward. Sessions focus on improving communication, coping with life changes, and rebuilding self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her approach blends client-centered therapy with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. That means she pays attention to what matters to the client, offers techniques to manage thinking and behavior, and teaches ways to stay present during stressful moments.
Lesa also draws on relationship-focused methods such as the Gottman Method and ideas from Jungian therapy to help people understand patterns in their intimate lives. She uses these tools to address intimacy concerns, infidelity, blended family issues, and other relationship challenges. People often come to her during transitions like divorce, fertility struggles, caregiving strain, or chronic illness.
Lesa aims to set clear, achievable goals and to support steady progress. She works with people in Oregon and conducts sessions in English. Practical options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Getting started means completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client's needs.
How Lesa's Approaches Work Online
Lesa uses client-centered therapy to make sessions about the client's priorities. This approach focuses on listening, helping people name their goals, and shaping sessions around what matters most to them. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which provides clear steps for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lesa treats choosing methods as a collaborative process, discussing options and adjusting techniques based on a client's goals, values, and what feels most useful in session. She checks in and changes course when a method isn't working well for a person.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, frequent check-ins and can help people stay on track between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep steady momentum on goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Florida
- Languages
- English
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