About Lesley
Lesley Poblete-Creech is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She supports concerns like self-esteem, career questions, parenting strain, grief, addiction, ADHD, and intimacy issues. She also works with people facing trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and sleep problems.
Lesley uses a mix of practical techniques and gentle guidance in sessions. She draws on mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment principles, and dialectical behavior skills to help people build everyday coping tools.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with room for skill practice between meetings. She has about 12 years of direct-practice experience as a social worker in Missouri and holds the LCSW credential. Lesley has run DBT skills groups for young adults and adults and has led groups geared toward families and couples.
She also completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training and sometimes offers breathing and movement exercises as part of therapy. Lesley emphasizes a nonjudgmental atmosphere where people can talk openly about thoughts and feelings. Her approach aims to help clients notice small changes that build toward clearer priorities and a greater sense of purpose.
She encourages steady steps rather than quick fixes. Outside work she is a dog mom and draws on simple routines and mindful habits in daily life. Her availability tends to include weekday evenings after 6:30 pm Central Time, select Saturday mornings or daytime slots, and some Sunday evenings.
Approaches to change you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then move toward chosen values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. It often helps with mood, worry, sleep, and behavior changes. Mindfulness-based work teaches attention to the present moment through breathing and simple exercises and supports stress reduction and clearer decision making.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Lesley will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest techniques to try. Together they adjust methods over time so the work stays relevant and realistic for daily life.
Online formats include video, phone, live chat, and text messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine. Video lets clients use visual cues for deeper conversations. Phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option or a good fit for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief support, tracking goals, or practicing skills between sessions. These options help people access ongoing work without long commutes and offer flexibility for evening and weekend scheduling.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- 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
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English