About Leslie
Leslie M. Brown is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, addiction concerns, career pressures, and ADHD.
Her approach is warm and direct, with a touch of humor to ease tense moments. Leslie works with people from many backgrounds, including those who have faced discrimination or religious and spiritual harm. She listens closely to each person's story and avoids stigmatizing labels.
Background and approach
Respect and sensitivity guide her interactions. Her sessions often combine practical thinking tools and supportive, person-focused conversation. Leslie uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful patterns and client-centered skills to make space for the person's goals.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies when they fit the situation. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together. She pays attention to the relationship between therapist and client as an essential part of progress.
Decisions about next steps come from what the client wants to change and what feels doable for them. Leslie has worked with people dealing with trauma, traumatic brain injury, workplace issues, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and chronic health challenges. She values practical strategies and steady support while people navigate life changes.
She welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English. Leslie encourages prospective clients to reach out and explore whether her manner and methods fit their needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people accept difficult feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes when someone wants concrete steps tied to personal meaning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and problems like attention and concentration difficulties. Client-Centered Therapy centers the session on the person's experience, using empathic listening and genuine feedback to build trust and clarify goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit best based on hopes, daily demands, and what feels workable. That conversation guides how techniques are mixed and adjusted over time.
Online therapy with Leslie uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face conversation when that helps, while phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing written reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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