About Leslie
Leslie Hagedorn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Indiana with ten years of experience in mental health care. She offers direct therapeutic work informed by years of clinical practice and academic training. Leslie approaches each person as an individual and meets them where they are in their life.
Her background includes work with substance use and co-occurring disorders, complex trauma, and process addictions. She also has experience addressing anxiety, mood disorders, panic, and relationship and family concerns.
Background and approach
Her earlier training included assessment work and supervised clinical placements during a doctoral program. Leslie uses a mix of methods to fit each person's needs. She draws on client-centered ways of working to prioritize the person's goals and perspective.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that get in the way. For people with traumatic memories or strong anxiety, she employs eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to help process distressing memories. Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when someone is looking to change behaviors like substance use.
Sessions tend to focus on clear, practical steps people can use between meetings. She helps clients with parenting stress, career concerns, low self-esteem, compulsive or impulsive behaviors, grief, and life transitions. The goal is steady progress toward the changes the person wants.
Leslie works with English-speaking clients and accepts international clients for online work. She integrates her training and on-the-job experience to tailor care that fits each person's situation.
How Leslie's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and experience. It means the therapist listens carefully and follows the person's lead to set priorities and next steps. This approach helps when someone needs space to name what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together. CBT helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, panic, or low mood. It is practical and often includes tasks to practice between sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR, is used to reduce the emotional charge of distressing memories. In therapy it involves focused attention and guided processing to help people move forward from trauma or intense anxiety.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leslie will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Then she will adapt methods and move at a pace that feels manageable, so the plan fits the person's life and aims.
Online sessions provide flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth; live chat and text messaging work for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options can make it simpler to keep therapy consistent and effective.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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