About Leslie
Leslie Scott is a licensed professional counselor in Virginia with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction-related struggles. She supports individuals facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, sleeping problems, anger, and self-esteem issues. She also works with people navigating LGBT matters, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Leslie believes clients are the experts on their own lives and brings a respectful, down-to-earth style to sessions.
Background and approach
She listens carefully and helps people identify strengths they can use to meet hard things. Conversations are practical and focused on small steps that add up over time. In sessions she talks through current problems, coping strategies, and ways to rebuild routines like sleep and daily structure.
She also helps people past trauma and abuse work toward safer boundaries and steadier emotional responses. For parenting and family concerns she helps parents sort through patterns and choose clearer ways to respond. Leslie has worked in clinical settings for two decades, which gives her familiarity with a wide range of concerns from addiction and codependency to hospice and end-of-life counseling.
Her approach favors clear goals, steady pacing, and helping people notice progress. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Practical approaches and online access for change
Two evidence-based approaches often used in problem-focused work are behavioral strategies and skills-based coping. Behavioral approaches involve changing daily routines and habits to reduce symptoms like insomnia, low mood, or anxiety. Skills-based coping teaches concrete tools for handling intense emotions, cravings, or overwhelming stress in the moment.Another helpful approach focuses on strengthening connections and boundaries. This work looks at communication patterns and attachment concerns so people can set clearer limits, repair relationship strains, and build more stable emotional responses after trauma or abandonment.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will listen to what matters most, try approaches that match the person's goals, and adjust the plan as progress is made. This keeps therapy practical and responsive to changing needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people talk face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be shorter or easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or for people who prefer writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to maintain steady contact as change unfolds.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English