About Lesley
Lesley Eckhardt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, ADHD, trauma, and parenting strain. Lesley aims to offer steady, practical support so clients can make forward steps in their daily lives.
Lesley uses clear, direct conversations to identify immediate concerns and small changes that add up. She draws on client-centered methods to listen deeply and help people name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral tools are used to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns in everyday situations. Attachment-based ideas guide work around relationship patterns and how past losses or early connections affect current choices. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) concepts help people accept difficult feelings while focusing on values-based action.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used when emotion regulation, distress tolerance, or communication needs extra structure. Her background includes crisis counseling, school-based work, therapeutic foster care, and adoption-related services. That experience supports practical approaches for parenting challenges, blended family stress, and caregiver strain.
Lesley also offers guidance around career, sleep, and coping with life transitions. Sessions are conducted in English and offered through a mix of video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Lesley works within a systems-informed, compassionate framework to help people reduce overwhelm and build workable routines.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Lesley blends several practical approaches to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage mood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people accept difficult feelings while choosing actions that align with their values, which can help with grief, stress, or life transitions.She treats approach selection as a joint process. The therapist and client talk about goals and try methods that fit the person’s situation. If a skill or approach does not feel helpful, they adjust the plan together to find what works in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for longer work and visual cues, phone can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, chat or text are useful for shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around school, work, and caregiving duties rather than the other way around.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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