Dr. Leslie "Les" Netland
Compassionate, practical help for family and parenting challenges
- Credentials
- OR Psychologist 3296
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Leslie
Dr. Leslie "Les" Netland works with parents and individuals who are worried about family life, behavior, or mood. He focuses on practical steps people can take at home.
He prefers to see people from their late teens onward and keeps sessions straightforward and focused on change. Dr. Netland is licensed in Oregon as OR Psychologist 3296 and brings thirty years of clinical experience.
He learned clinical psychology through a long course of study that culminated in a doctorate in clinical psychology.
Background and approach
Over his career he has worked in state hospitals, county jails, nursing homes, a personal psychiatric hospital, and independent practice settings. He has also provided services through Employee Assistance Programs. These varied settings shaped the way he helps people with real-life problems.
In sessions he uses clear techniques from client-centered work and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. He also draws on psychodynamic perspectives and solution-focused ideas when they fit the problem. That means he listens first, then helps set small, achievable goals and practices new skills between meetings.
Parents often come for help with parenting, blended family challenges, or communication problems. He also addresses stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, grief, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, attention problems, and life transitions. He emphasizes teaching, reflection, and practical skill building.
Dr. Netland aims to be flexible and culturally aware. He helps people learn about their thoughts and patterns, then supports changes where clients have control or responsibility.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Approach and online options for family and parenting support
Client-centered work begins by listening to what matters most to the family or individual. It emphasizes understanding each person’s perspective and tailoring goals to their everyday life. This approach helps when parents need practical guidance or when family members want clearer communication.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many parenting challenges because it breaks problems into clear steps and homework you can practice between sessions.
Dr. Netland treats finding the right approach as a team effort. He will help you decide which methods fit your goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can change over time, and he adjusts methods as progress and circumstances evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, keep work or school disruptions to a minimum, and maintain continuity when life gets complicated. Licensed professionals can use these options to provide consistent guidance and teach skills you can use at home.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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