About Leslie
Dr. Leslie Cary is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of experience practicing in Florida. She focuses on helping people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, and ADHD.
She speaks plainly and helps people find manageable steps forward when life feels overwhelming. Dr. Cary views each person as the expert on their own story.
She looks for strengths clients already use and builds on those.
Background and approach
The first step toward change is often the hardest, and she aims to make that step feel safe and doable. In sessions she helps clients talk through current problems and learn practical ways to cope. She offers coaching-style guidance for building skills like clearer communication, better anger management, and more reliable routines.
She also supports people facing grief, caregiving stress, adoption or foster care concerns, and issues tied to attachment or abandonment. Dr. Cary draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address addictions, intimacy concerns, body image, and codependency.
She also helps with life transitions such as divorce, end-of-life planning, and chronic illness challenges. Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented, with clear steps to practice between sessions. People work with her to reduce symptoms, strengthen relationships, and restore daily functioning.
She accepts international clients and offers multiple online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How evidence-based approaches meet online care
Dr. Cary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on skills and problem solving. One approach she applies emphasizes practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and stepwise behavior changes to reduce overwhelm. Another approach targets relationship and attachment difficulties by improving communication habits and identifying patterns that cause conflict, helping people create clearer boundaries and more dependable routines.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to understand goals, daily life, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust as progress unfolds so care fits the client’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing tracking and brief reflections. These options make it easier to keep consistent appointments and apply skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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