About Lesley
Lesley Eckhardt welcomes people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn next. She writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters most to each person. Lesley aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the everyday strains of parenting and life changes.
Lesley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing in Florida with 27 years of experience. She has a long background in crisis work, trauma, attachment concerns, and issues like ADHD and bipolar mood challenges.
Background and approach
Much of her work has involved school-based counseling, therapeutic foster care, adoption-related services, and support for caregivers. In sessions she takes a person-centered stance. Conversations focus on what the client needs right now.
She blends practical skills and clearer thinking with attention to how relationships and family history shape current struggles. Clients can expect help with sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career worries, and family communication. Lesley also addresses abandonment, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, eating-related issues, and forgiveness and shame work.
Her approach draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, cognitive-behavioral tools, and DBT skills to build coping strategies and emotional regulation. She works to make therapy straightforward and useful so people can try small changes that add up over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build healthier ways of connecting and relating to others. It can be useful for relationship difficulties, abandonment concerns, and family-of-origin issues. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral steps to change mood and functioning, often helping with depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and coping skills.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Lesley will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people talk face to face when needed. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, momentary coping tools, and ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English