About Leslie
Leslie Mulligan is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people regain steadiness and cope better with life’s demands. She brings 24 years of clinical experience and speaks both English and French. Leslie practices from Maine and offers sessions for adults and couples who are navigating mood, relationship, or life-stage challenges.
Her style is warm, direct, and interactive. She uses practical conversation and hands-on techniques to help people notice patterns, build coping skills, and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions often include attention to body awareness and creative tools alongside talk therapy. Leslie blends several therapeutic approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas to address relationship and intimacy problems.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and dialectical methods support emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Over two decades she has worked with people facing trauma, grief, addiction, chronic illness, career strain, and ADHD-related challenges. Her background also includes work with military-related trauma and first responders, which shaped her trauma-sensitive methods and practical focus.
Clients can expect clear goals, collaborative planning, and tools they can use between sessions. Leslie emphasizes respect, honesty, and cultural sensitivity while helping people move toward better sleep, healthier relationships, steadier mood, or greater life satisfaction.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connections. Online sessions use conversation and guided exercises to identify attachment needs and try new ways of relating that reduce conflict and build safety in relationships.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and shift the emotional responses that drive relationship strain. In remote sessions this looks like carefully guided dialogue and role work to notice feelings, express needs, and repair distance between partners or within oneself.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Via video or phone, clients and the therapist map unhelpful thinking, test beliefs, and practice new behavior between sessions to improve mood, sleep, or daily functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leslie will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and the issues they bring. That may mean combining strategies and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist observe facial cues and teach skill practice. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing support between sessions, brief coaching, and accountability for homework or coping strategies.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Maine, North Carolina
- Languages
- English, French
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