Leslie Martin
Practical support for family and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Leslie
Leslie Martin is a licensed professional counselor and licensed mental health counselor with more than two decades of experience. She offers practical, respectful support for people facing stress, anxiety, family conflict, anger, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Her manner is direct and compassionate.
She aims to help people find concrete steps forward. Leslie spent many years working in the New York City public school system before moving into full-time therapy.
Background and approach
That background shaped her ability to explain things clearly and stay grounded in real-world concerns. She brings experience with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, and compassion fatigue. Her practice also addresses adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and difficulties tied to divorce or separation.
She has supported people dealing with addiction, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and isolation. ADHD and parenting support are part of her focus as well. She identifies as faith-informed and strives to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s needs and values.
Sessions focus on practical tools and the client’s own strengths. Leslie encourages small, manageable changes that add up over time. Leslie holds NJ LPC 37PC00867300 and NY LMHC 001024.
She practices in New Jersey and conducts sessions in English. Her background combines school-based experience with many years in clinical settings and independent practice.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Leslie uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and symptom relief. One common approach helps people learn coping skills for anxiety and stress through hands-on practice and step-by-step strategies; this is useful for daily overwhelm, panic, and ongoing worry. Another approach focuses on processing difficult experiences like trauma, grief, and relationship hurts by creating a safe space to talk things through and build new ways to respond. These methods aim to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Leslie works with each person to match techniques to their goals, values, and what feels doable. She checks in often and adapts the plan as progress or life circumstances change so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy schedules. These options make it easier to meet from home, during work breaks, or while managing family needs. The variety of formats supports consistent contact and lets people pick the way of communicating that feels most comfortable and useful for their situation.
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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
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