About Leslie
Leslie Allen is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 19 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on real-world problems like sleep disruption, relationship strain, attention differences, and addictive behaviors. Leslie aims to provide a calm, respectful space where people can be heard and make practical changes.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's pace and priorities.
Background and approach
She combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach coping tools for intense emotions and unhelpful thinking patterns. Leslie also brings mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas into sessions when useful. Mindfulness practices help people notice thoughts and body signals without reacting.
Psychodynamic work looks at repeating patterns that show up across relationships and life choices. She has experience supporting people with ADHD, mood disorders, grief, trauma and abuse, chronic pain and illness, and sexual intimacy concerns. Leslie also helps clients address communication problems, work stress, caregiver strain, hoarding, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Leslie practices in Maryland and works in English. If you want to explore whether she might be a fit, you can start by using the Start Therapy button and completing the short matching questionnaire to schedule a session.
How Leslie’s approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to each person. Online sessions can preserve that supportive, nonjudgmental conversation so the client sets goals and the therapist follows their lead.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. In remote sessions, that can mean practicing thought records, behavioral experiments, and homework between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. Skills training and coaching on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness can be taught and practiced during online appointments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative planning happens during the first few sessions and can be adjusted over time.
The biography does not specify which online formats are offered, so confirm available session types before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, allow brief check-ins when useful, and support practice of skills between meetings. These practical benefits often help people keep momentum while they work toward clearer thinking and steadier coping.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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