About Leslie
Leslie Quigley is a licensed mental health counselor with six years of clinical experience and a focus on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and grief. She holds the LPCC credential, which is listed as CA LPCC, and offers a compassionate, person-centered style that aims to make conversations feel safe and straightforward. Her work emphasizes strengths and practical coping tools.
Sessions are grounded in cultural awareness that considers ethnicity, race, sexual identity, and spiritual beliefs.
Background and approach
Leslie listens without judgment and helps clients build skills to handle painful emotions and difficult life changes. Leslie supports people through a wide range of struggles, including depression, panic, addiction-related concerns, bipolar and psychotic-spectrum challenges, PTSD, and other sudden life disruptions. She uses a positive, strengths-based approach to help clients find workable steps forward.
Her sessions prioritize connection and trust. She aims to meet people where they are, start from current needs, and guide them toward gradual, meaningful change. Conversations are practical and focused on what someone can try between meetings.
For those wanting to start, Leslie invites prospective clients to describe their present difficulties and goals so she can tailor a plan. The initial phase is often about clear problem solving, building coping skills, and creating space for recovery and growth.
Evidence-based approaches and how online work fits
Leslie draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotional processing. One approach centers on developing coping skills for anxiety and panic by identifying triggers, learning breathing and grounding exercises, and rehearsing small behavior changes to reduce distress. Another approach targets trauma-related symptoms with gradual processing and stabilization techniques that help people manage intense memories and day-to-day reactions.Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, current struggles, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan over time based on results and preferences.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Confirm the session formats before booking since the available options are not specified here. Online work often reduces travel time, lets someone meet from a familiar location, and can make scheduling around work or caregiving easier. Some formats also allow shorter check-ins on busier weeks, or sessions without video when bandwidth is limited. Ask about current session options to pick the best fit.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English