About Leslie
Leslie Martin is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 24 years of clinical experience. She practices in New Jersey and draws on a long history of work in public schools and independent practice to help people through stressful times. Her style is respectful and compassionate, and she builds sessions around each person's needs and strengths.
Leslie focuses on problems many parents and caregivers find urgent.
Background and approach
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and grief. She also supports those navigating parenting challenges, family conflict, adoption and foster care issues, blended family adjustments, and caregiver strain. She works with people facing life transitions, relationship tension, intimacy and commitment concerns, and complications from addiction or trauma.
Common topics she addresses include communication problems, codependency, infidelity, and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation. She also offers coaching to build self-esteem and practical coping skills. Leslie spent 15 years in the New York City public school system before shifting into full-time therapy, which gives her strong experience with real-world family dynamics and child-related systems.
That background influences the straightforward, practical approaches she uses in sessions. In meetings she treats clients as the experts of their own stories. She helps people identify strengths, set small goals, and try manageable changes.
Sessions are guided by empathy and clear, achievable steps to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Leslie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional regulation. One approach emphasizes skill building for stress and anxiety - teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-management tools that can be practiced between sessions to reduce day-to-day worry. Another approach focuses on improving communication and relationship patterns by identifying unhelpful interactions and trying new behaviors in small steps to ease family conflict and intimacy issues.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Leslie works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they test methods, adjust plans, and track progress so the work fits the individual's life and needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a low-bandwidth option for a focused check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings or schedule short timely check-ins. These formats help make therapy fit work, caregiving, or other time pressures while still allowing steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
Also works with
- 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