About Leslie
Leslie Quigley is an LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) based in California with six years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, person-centered style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Leslie aims to create a calm space where someone can talk, feel heard, and begin to sort things out.
Leslie uses a strengths-based approach that emphasizes what a person already does well.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how culture, ethnicity, sexual identity, and spiritual beliefs shape someone’s experience. In sessions she helps people build coping skills and tools to process painful emotions and accept life’s changes. Her work often involves practical steps for reducing panic and anxiety, navigating difficult relationship patterns, and managing grief after loss.
Leslie also supports people facing complex diagnoses and overlapping concerns, including mood and personality challenges. She keeps the conversation straightforward and focused on real-life improvements. Clients can expect a therapist who listens without judgment and meets them where they are.
Leslie prefers to form a genuine connection first and then work together toward meaningful change. She describes therapy as a collaborative process of learning new skills and trying them out in everyday life. Leslie’s background and approach center on respect for identity and lived experience.
That perspective informs how she helps people cope after trauma, adjust to major life changes, and rebuild confidence in relationships and daily routines.
How evidence-based techniques fit into online therapy
Leslie describes her work as grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques that aim to reduce symptoms and build skills. Cognitive approaches help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new ways of reacting to stress and anxiety. These methods are often used to reduce panic and day-to-day worry and to teach coping tools for mood challenges.Exposure-based strategies help people gradually face fears and phobias in manageable steps. This approach focuses on small, repeated practice so avoidance decreases and confidence grows. It is commonly applied when panic, avoidance, or specific fears get in the way of daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leslie collaborates with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and what feels doable. The plan is flexible and adjusted over time based on what helps most.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats before booking since the profile does not list them. Online work can make scheduling easier and reduce travel time. It can also let people fit short check-ins into a break at work, use phone sessions when less bandwidth is available, or maintain continuity when life gets busy. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to fit everyday routines so progress continues between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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