About Leslie
Dr. Leslie Cary uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Background and approach
She brings 20 years of experience and a calm, straightforward style. Her work focuses on relationships, family concerns, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, and intimacy-related issues.
Leslie is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, licensed in Florida. She treats problems like anger, low self-esteem, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue with clear steps and real-world strategies.
She encourages people to notice strengths they already have and to build new skills from there. In sessions she listens for what matters most to each person and helps turn that into practical goals.
She supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and blended family struggles. She also addresses body image, codependency, and communication problems in everyday terms.
Her background includes work with people facing cancer, hospice and end-of-life concerns, caregiver stress, dissociation, and the aftermath of divorce and separation. She offers coaching-style support when clients want guidance on next steps or life transitions.
Therapy with her is collaborative and paced to what each person needs. She welcomes international clients and provides sessions in English using video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
Therapeutic methods that translate to online care
Many effective, evidence-based techniques can be used in remote sessions. One approach focuses on building practical coping skills to manage stress and anxiety, teaching short exercises and daily routines that reduce overwhelm and improve mood. Another approach emphasizes relationships and attachment, helping people improve communication, set boundaries, and heal from abandonment or attachment wounds. A third option uses trauma-informed strategies to help process difficult memories in small, manageable steps so symptoms feel less disruptive.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. Sessions can be adjusted over time based on what is helping and what feels workable for the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let participants read facial cues and practice communication skills in real time. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to keep progress going between longer sessions and to get brief support during busy days. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English