About Lesa
Lesa Leiden is a licensed counselor with over 21 years helping people through relationship and life transitions. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and challenges around intimacy and parenting. She also supports people managing ADHD and the effects of trauma and abuse.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Sessions focus on clear communication, practical tools, and understanding the meaning behind problems. She listens first, then offers strategies that fit each person’s situation.
Background and approach
Lesa uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. She draws on Client-Centered methods to build trust, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to change unhelpful patterns, and the Gottman Method for relationship work. Mindfulness and Jungian ideas also inform her thinking when exploring deeper personal themes.
She has decades of experience helping with specific issues such as divorce, blended family concerns, fertility struggles, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and challenges related to non-monogamous relationships and kink. That background helps her notice common patterns and suggest realistic steps forward. Lesa holds LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) and LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) credentials and practices in Oregon.
She aims to make sessions practical and understandable so people can apply what they learn between meetings.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting relationship. It helps people feel heard and clarifies what matters most before choosing specific techniques.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It provides practical exercises and homework to change patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or relationship conflicts.
The Gottman Method is used when relationship issues are a focus. It teaches communication skills, how to manage conflict, and ways to rebuild connection over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients help decide which techniques feel most useful for their life and situation.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation from wherever they are. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give shorter, timely ways to share updates or get coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy or changing schedules.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Lesa help with?
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
What experience does she bring to therapy?
What credentials and location are listed?
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
What session formats does she use?
How is cost handled for therapy?
What steps do I take to begin working with her?
What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Florida
- Languages
- English