About Leslie
Leslie Scott is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 20 years of experience. She helps people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges related to parenting and family life. She also supports clients facing addiction, relationship friction, ADHD, trauma, and issues around identity and intimacy.
Leslie works in a straightforward, respectful way. She sees clients as experts on their own lives and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and clearer thinking rather than long lectures or complicated jargon. Her approach aims to make daily life easier. That can mean learning new routines for sleep, handling strong emotions like anger, or finding ways to manage attention and focus.
She also helps people cope with loss, caregiver stress, and the strain that comes with major life transitions. Leslie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address symptoms and patterns that keep people stuck. She talks through problems, suggests small experiments to try between sessions, and adjusts the plan as needs shift.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle. People who choose her often want practical tools and steady support. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room to explore feelings and past wounds when that helps progress.
Her practice aims to help clients move toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
How evidence-based approaches adapt to online care
Leslie uses established, evidence-based techniques to guide sessions. One common approach focuses on practical behavior change and routine building to help with sleep, attention, and daily structure. It’s useful for people managing ADHD symptoms, insomnia, or low motivation.Another approach centers on emotional regulation and coping skills to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and ease grief. This involves learning short strategies to calm strong feelings and testing small changes between sessions to see what helps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leslie collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and life demands. She adjusts the plan over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a brief check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing or want short, more frequent support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue care when schedules or travel change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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