About Lesley
Lesley Poblete-Creech is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Missouri with 12 years of direct practice experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Lesley also supports concerns such as ADHD, grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.
She uses straightforward tools in sessions and keeps conversations practical. Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and cognitive-behavioral techniques are common parts of her work.
Background and approach
She often pairs talk therapy with skills training so clients can try new ways of coping between meetings. Lesley has led Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills groups for young adults and adults, and she has experience running DBT-informed groups aimed at families and couples.
She completed a 200 hour Certified Yoga Teacher training in 2016 and sometimes offers simple yoga practices as an adjunct to therapy to support grounding and present-moment focus. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on what matters most to each person and on small, achievable steps.
She aims to help clients notice values and build daily routines that feel purposeful. Lesley balances a full-time role outside of this service with evening and some weekend availability. She works by appointment and offers multiple online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Lesley often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on helping people identify their values and take small actions toward them even when uncomfortable thoughts or feelings show up. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a practical approach that looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches specific strategies to change unhelpful habits and improve mood and functioning.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust strategies over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full conversations and skill demonstrations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into evenings or weekends and into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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