About Leslie
Dr. Leslie Davis offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or relationship struggles. She uses clear, compassionate conversation to help clients sort priorities and find doable next steps.
She is a licensed clinical social worker in Virginia with ten years of experience and meets people where they are. Her approach starts by listening to what matters most to each person and shaping a plan from there.
Background and approach
She draws on attachment-based work to look at how close relationships affect mood and behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that keep problems going. Sessions are collaborative and practical.
Clients can expect straightforward talk, skill-building, and small experiments to try between meetings. Mindfulness techniques are offered to reduce rumination and build calm in daily life. Dr.
Davis also addresses issues like trauma and abuse, addiction, parenting stress, caregiver strain, body image, and intimacy-related concerns. She helps people manage anger, impulsivity, and the fallout of major life changes. Her work includes support for first responders and those facing compassion fatigue.
Therapy can include short-term coaching goals or longer work on attachment and family patterns. She adapts the pace and methods to fit each person’s needs, preferences, and life demands. Speaking up about distress is the first step, and she aims to make the next steps feel manageable.
How Dr. Davis' Methods Work Online
Dr. Davis often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how close relationships shape feelings and reactions, which can help people untangle patterns of trust, distance, or abandonment that show up in daily life. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify automatic thoughts and replace unhelpful patterns with clearer, more balanced thinking. Each approach is presented in simple steps and aimed at practical change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit current goals and life demands. Together they check in on what’s helping and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls make it easy to work through relational and emotional material with face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a personal verbal check-in. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, real-time coaching, or people who prefer written reflection. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit school, work, caregiving, or irregular schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English