About Leslie
Leslie M. Brown is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida with 12 years of clinical experience.
Background and approach
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting concerns, career strains, and ADHD. Her approach is warm and hopeful while remaining straightforward and respectful.
She brings a personable, often humorous style to sessions to help ease tension. Leslie focuses on building a strong working relationship and tailors each session to the person in front of her.
She avoids stigmatizing labels and treats concerns as shared problems to solve rather than fixed identities. Leslie uses practical tools drawn from cognitive-behavioral methods and acceptance-focused work.
She also leans on client-centered listening to make space for each person's values and goals. Sessions may include skills practice, values clarification, and ways to manage strong emotions or unhelpful thoughts.
She has particular experience supporting people who have faced religious or spiritual harm, discrimination, or other stresses tied to being part of marginalized communities. Her background includes work with people coping with traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress, grief from many sources, and complicated life transitions.
Leslie aims to work collaboratively and dynamically. She focuses on clear goals, respect, and practical steps that fit each person’s life.
The first meetings emphasize understanding priorities and building a plan together.
How Leslie’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed action even when difficult feelings show up; it can help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed by anxiety or depression. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and respect so people can explore what matters to them and move toward their goals.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Leslie works collaboratively to identify goals and then uses methods that match the person's needs and preferences. That might mean blending ACT with CBT tools or spending more time on empathic listening while skills are practiced between sessions.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth or cameras are limited, and messaging lets people check in or do brief coaching between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English