About Leslie
Leslie Brown is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and eating concerns. She writes simply and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Her approach begins with respect, sensitivity, and a calm presence that helps people feel heard.
With six years of experience, Leslie adapts conversations and plans to each person’s situation. She helps people name what is most difficult and choose practical steps to feel steadier.
Background and approach
Sessions often cover coping skills, ways to handle relational strain, and strategies for moments of panic or low mood. Leslie pays attention to issues around body image, self-worth, and isolation. She supports people dealing with abandonment fears, social anxiety, or the fallout from separation and divorce.
Work can include improving communication, managing mood swings, and rebuilding a sense of purpose after loss. Therapy is collaborative and paced to fit each person. Goals are set together and checked in on regularly.
Leslie aims to build confidence in small changes that add up over time. Leslie holds LCSW as a credential and practices in Montana. She offers sessions that meet a range of needs, and she frames progress as a sequence of steps rather than quick fixes.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Briefly, two common evidence-based approaches are focused on changing unhelpful thoughts and building new habits. Cognitive-oriented work helps people notice thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and then try different ways of thinking. This can help with panic, social anxiety, and persistent negative self-talk. Another helpful approach centers on skills for coping with strong emotions and stressful situations. Skills include grounding techniques, breathing, planning small behavioral changes, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These tools are useful for trauma recovery, eating concerns, and mood regulation. Finding the right approach is part of the process and is done together. The therapist will ask about goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels useful. Clients have input about pace, focus, and which techniques feel most helpful. Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging lets people write through thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use the format that best supports progress.Frequently asked questions
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- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Utah
- Languages
- English