Leslie WallaceLCSW

Leslie Wallace is a licensed clinical social worker in Louisiana with 19 years of experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and family concerns. Leslie creates a calm space where people can say what’s on their mind without judgment. She encourages small steps toward clearer thinking and steadier days.

Leslie uses psychodynamic therapy to help clients see how past experiences shape current feelings and behaviors. That work focuses on increasing self-awareness and connecting patterns from earlier life to present challenges. She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms by bringing attention to the present moment.

Sessions typically involve gentle reflection on recurring feelings and relationships. Leslie helps people notice automatic reactions, name them, and try different responses. She often combines mindful breathing or short practices with deeper conversations when that fits the person’s pace.

People come to Leslie for a range of concerns including parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, coping with life changes, anger, low self-esteem, and trauma or abuse. She also works with issues tied to caregiving, blended families, abandonment, cancer-related stress, and family of origin problems.

Her approach is collaborative and steady. Leslie aims to help people leave sessions a little clearer about what matters to them and what they can try next. To begin, clients follow the site’s matching steps and schedule according to availability.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Psychodynamic therapy helps people connect their past experiences to current patterns. It focuses on noticing repeated feelings and behaviors and understanding where they come from to make different choices now. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices such as breathing and moment-to-moment noticing to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms and to calm the mind.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust the balance of psychodynamic reflection and mindfulness practice based on those conversations. This happens in a collaborative way where the client’s comfort and pace guide decisions.

Confirm the available session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports continuing regular work on relationships, stress, grief, or parenting concerns without requiring large schedule changes.