About Leslie
Leslie Ellwood brings a calm, straightforward style to therapy. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Pennsylvania and draws on practical techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. Her approach is grounded in kindness and steady support, with a focus on real tools that people can use between sessions.
Leslie blends several evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and move toward meaningful action.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are part of her toolkit for handling strong emotions and improving moment-to-moment coping. Clients can expect coaching in simple relaxation practices such as progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, and paced breathing. She also encourages practical lifestyle steps like regular physical activity to support mood and stress management.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward, with clear strategies to try between meetings. Leslie’s background includes work across hospitals, schools, and rehabilitation settings. She brings 12 years of professional experience as an LPC in Pennsylvania and has familiarity with caregiver stress, workplace concerns, and aging-related challenges.
That range helps her adapt plans to different life circumstances. Her focus areas include relationship and family problems, parenting stress, trauma and abuse recovery, ADHD-related coping, and workplace issues. She frames therapy as a partnership and helps people set realistic goals, build skills, and track small steps of progress.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment and simple grounding skills to reduce anxious or ruminative thinking.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Leslie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than imposing a fixed path.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy practical. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and skill coaching, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is low, and text or chat are helpful for brief check-ins or tracking progress between meetings. These options make it easier to keep momentum and use skills in real time.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English