Leslie Mulligan

Leslie Mulligan is a licensed counselor who focuses on helping people navigate major life stressors and relationship struggles. She uses a direct, caring style to help clients manage anxiety, mood shifts, grief, and the everyday pressures of work, health, sleep, and family roles. Leslie works with adults across a wide age range and supports those dealing with aging and end-of-life concerns including hospice and bereavement needs.

Leslie brings 24 years of clinical experience and blends practical skills with creative methods. Sessions are grounded in present-focused conversation, skill building, and opportunities to try new ways of coping. She often combines thought-based techniques with emotional work to steady mood and improve relationships.

Her approach is trauma-sensitive and body-aware, so she pays attention to how stress shows up in behavior, sensation, and thinking. She uses client-centered listening alongside cognitive-behavioral and emotion-focused tools to help people see patterns and make useful changes. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed.

Leslie emphasizes respectful honesty and cultural awareness. She supports clients facing intimacy concerns, addiction struggles, identity questions, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and the practical impacts of major life transitions. Work in therapy aims for clearer choices, fewer crises, and greater enjoyment in day-to-day life.

To begin, people are invited to connect and discuss current struggles and goals. The focus is on practical steps that fit each person’s situation and values, so progress can feel tangible and applicable.

Approaches that guide online work and support

Leslie often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at patterns in relationships and how early connections influence present feelings and reactions. This helps when trust, closeness, or recurring conflict are the main concerns. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and gently test new behaviors that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. DBT skills are used when emotion regulation and stress tolerance need practical, repeatable tools to get through hard moments.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try a few methods, and together you will adjust what you do in sessions so it fits your needs and preferences. It is normal to shift strategies as work unfolds and new priorities emerge.

The practical advantages of online therapy include fitting sessions into busy schedules and reducing travel time, which can make regular appointments more feasible. Online work can make it easier to check in during a lunch break or between commitments and it can allow use of brief skill-practice between sessions. Because specific session formats were not listed in the biography, confirm the available options before booking so you know which kinds of meetings are offered.