Lesley Poblete-Creech
Compassionate, practical support for families and parents
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lesley
Lesley Poblete-Creech is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Missouri with 12 years of direct practice experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns among many other life challenges. Lesley uses down-to-earth language and practical tools so conversations feel clear and useful.
She brings calm energy and straightforward guidance to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationships, and major life changes. Lesley draws from several evidence-based methods in her sessions.
Background and approach
She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice thoughts, choose values-aligned actions, and change unhelpful habits. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills, especially in group settings, to teach emotion regulation and communication strategies. Mindfulness and breathing exercises are woven into her work.
Lesley trained as a 200-hour Certified Yoga Teacher in 2016 and sometimes includes simple yoga or breath practices as tools during sessions. These practices are presented in plain terms and adapted to each person’s comfort level. She has experience facilitating DBT skills groups for adults and for families and couples.
Lesley emphasizes collaborative planning and practical steps that fit daily life. She aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where feelings and challenges can be talked about honestly. Outside of therapy, Lesley is a first-time dog mom to Teddy, a rescue Shih Tzu, who inspires a focus on intention and the present moment.
Her approach centers on small, steady changes that build a more satisfying life over time.
How Lesley’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Lesley often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. ACT focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and choosing meaningful steps despite them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another common tool and helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors to reduce distress.These approaches are introduced collaboratively. The therapist and client decide together which methods to try based on needs, goals, and preferences. Adjustments are made over time so the plan fits the person’s life and commitments.
Online therapy is offered through several formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. That flexibility makes it easier to fit sessions around work, family, and other responsibilities. Using these formats, skills like mindfulness, breathing exercises, ACT exercises, and CBT worksheets can be practiced between sessions and reviewed together. The goal is to make therapy practical and reachable while supporting steady progress through regular contact and adaptable tools.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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