About Leslie
Leslie Martin is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in New Jersey and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in New York. She brings 24 years of clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. Leslie emphasizes respect and compassion while tailoring each session to the person in front of her.
She spent many years working in the New York City public school system before moving into full-time therapy and independent practice.
Background and approach
That background shaped her practical approach to everyday problems and family-related concerns. She helps people navigate parenting challenges, blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, and fatherhood concerns. Leslie works with people facing trauma, abuse, and addiction-related struggles, as well as those coping with anger, codependency, or communication breakdowns.
She also supports caregivers dealing with burnout and compassion fatigue, and people wrestling with guilt, shame, or infidelity. Sessions focus on identifying strengths and building concrete skills that fit each person's life. Conversations are straightforward and goal-minded, with attention to what feels realistic and helpful day to day.
Leslie encourages clients to use their existing resources while learning new ways to cope. People who choose her describe therapy as a collaborative process. She pairs practical tools with sensitive listening to help people manage difficult emotions and move through change at their own pace.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Leslie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional healing. One common approach helps people learn concrete coping skills to manage anxiety, stress, and difficult emotions; it breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches behaviors that can be practiced between sessions. Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and abuse in a paced way so people can reduce upsetting reactions and rebuild routines that feel safe and manageable.The right approach is often discovered together. Leslie works collaboratively with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is helpful and what feels realistic for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face to face when schedules allow. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support possible between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English