Leslie Wallace
Practical support for family stress and change
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Leslie
Leslie Wallace is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana who supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties. She also helps those coping with grief, depression, trauma, intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem struggles. The first paragraph of work is about listening without judgment and creating a space where parents and caregivers can say what they need to say.
Leslie draws on 19 years of experience to help clients identify patterns that get in the way of better days.
Background and approach
She uses psychodynamic therapy to look at how past experiences shape current behavior and relationships. That work often helps people notice repeated reactions and find clearer choices. She also integrates mindfulness practice into sessions.
Mindfulness helps slow racing thoughts and brings attention back to the present moment, which can reduce anxiety and lift mood when practiced regularly. In sessions she encourages gentle curiosity about feelings and family patterns rather than quick fixes. Conversations focus on practical steps parents can try at home alongside deeper reflection on family history and expectations.
Leslie explains therapy in plain terms and partners with clients to set realistic goals. Her approach aims to strengthen coping skills and increase awareness so people can manage life changes with more confidence.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Leslie uses psychodynamic therapy to help people see how past experiences influence current thoughts, feelings, and relationship patterns. This approach often focuses on building self-awareness so people can change repetitive reactions that cause stress or family conflict.She also incorporates mindfulness therapy, which teaches simple attention practices and breath-based techniques to reduce anxiety and lift mood. Mindfulness is helpful for people who want concrete tools to manage overwhelming thoughts between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Leslie treats selecting methods as a collaborative process and adjusts the balance between reflection and practical exercises based on each person27s needs, goals, and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. These options allow for consistent check-ins, flexibility in how people communicate, and continuity when in-person visits are difficult.
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.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
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