About Leslie
Leslie Martin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in New York with 24 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, anger, relationship struggles, and the practical challenges of parenting and life changes. Leslie frames therapy around respect, compassion, and each person’s strengths.
Before moving into full-time practice, she spent many years working in the New York City public school system and maintained a part-time independent practice.
Background and approach
That background gave her experience with a wide range of family situations and everyday stressors seen in schools and homes. She draws on that history to help clients navigate complex family dynamics and caregiver stress. Leslie aims to tailor conversations and plans to what each person needs.
She encourages clients to build on their existing strengths and to take steps that feel manageable. Her approach includes coaching-style support for goal setting alongside therapeutic work for deeper issues like trauma and grief. People contact Leslie for help with ADHD-related challenges, coping skills, communication problems, and burnout from caregiving or work.
She also addresses issues such as adoption and foster care concerns, blended family dynamics, substance-related difficulties, and isolation. Sessions are offered in English and provided through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To start, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits your needs.
How Leslie’s Approaches Work Online
Leslie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and problem-solving. One common approach helps people develop coping tools for stress and anxiety through step-by-step strategies that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach centers on emotion-focused conversations to process grief, trauma, and relationship hurt so feelings can be named and managed more easily.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leslie collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and daily life. She adjusts methods over time so sessions remain focused on what the client finds most helpful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls approximate in-person conversation and work well for longer sessions and deeper dialogue. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins, coaching-style feedback, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and integrate new skills into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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