About Leslie
Leslie Cates is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana. She has ten years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and other life challenges. Leslie focuses on building a respectful, compassionate relationship and works at the pace each person needs.
Leslie uses a client-centered approach, which means the person sets the goals and she shapes sessions around those aims. She brings a warm, interactive style and avoids stigmatizing labels.
Background and approach
Her work often emphasizes strengths and practical steps toward change. She draws on a range of methods to match what a person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people develop willingness and purposeful acceptance while moving toward meaningful values. For people coping with trauma and intense emotions, Leslie integrates interventions from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and cognitive processing approaches to help process difficult memories and manage strong feelings. She also offers support around relationship strain, self-esteem, sleep problems, and caregiving stress.
Leslie aims to make therapy straightforward and goal-oriented. She encourages people to try practical skills between sessions and to track what helps. Her style is collaborative, focusing on real steps people can use in everyday life.
Approach-driven online care for everyday struggles
Leslie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems because it focuses on practical steps and experiments.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and practice willingness with difficult thoughts or emotions. ACT supports people who want to move toward meaningful goals while accepting hard feelings that come up.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Leslie works collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone send updates between appointments. These options aim to make counseling more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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