About Leslie
Leslie Hagedorn is a licensed clinical social worker who brings a decade of clinical experience to therapy. She combines practical skills with a respectful, down-to-earth manner. Leslie emphasizes clear goals and steady progress so people leave sessions with next steps they can use right away.
Leslie trained and practiced in settings that focused on substance use and co-occurring conditions. Her background includes doctoral-level supervised work and assessment experience, plus years providing direct care before and after graduate school.
Background and approach
That mix shapes a broad view of problems like addiction, mood disorders, and trauma. In sessions she focuses on what a person needs now. She uses evidence-based tools and conversational, person-centered work.
She helps people untangle anxiety, depression, parenting strain, anger, relationship problems, and difficulties with focus and motivation. People meet practical strategies such as goal-setting, coping skills, and problem-solving. Leslie also offers therapies aimed at processing traumatic memories and increasing motivation for change.
She tailors those tools to a person’s pace and life demands. Leslie practices in Indiana and works with people facing major life changes, workplace stress, compassion fatigue, or struggles tied to substance use. She supports people trying to find purpose, steady moods, or better ways to manage impulsivity and shame.
Her approach balances direct feedback with empathy. Sessions aim to be clear, focused, and useful so clients leave with concrete steps and a plan to move forward.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, reflecting, and following a person’s priorities. It helps when someone needs space to name what matters and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and impulsi ve behaviors. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process distressing memories through a structured protocol for reducing the intensity of those memories.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and recommend which methods to try first. Plans are adjusted along the way so the work matches changing needs and pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and maintain a conversational flow. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers no video. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and flexible scheduling during busy weeks. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into life while using approaches such as client-centered work, CBT, and EMDR in ways that match each person’s routine and goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English