About Lesa
Lesa Leiden is a licensed therapist with 21 years of experience helping people through relationship and family struggles. She works with concerns like intimacy, parenting, stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, and ADHD. People come to her when they are coping with big life changes or trying to improve communication and connection.
Her approach is practical and person-centered. She listens first, then suggests steps people can try between sessions. She draws on somatic work to help clients notice what the body is telling them, and on cognitive tools to shift unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Lesa blends relational methods with Jungian ideas to support deeper self-understanding. She also uses elements of the Gottman Method when relationship patterns are a focus. Sessions are paced to match each person's needs and comfort level.
Lesa holds an Oregon Licensed Professional Counselor license, OR LPC c3835, and a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor license, FL LMHC MH27262. She has worked across many concerns over two decades and brings that experience into session work. Therapy with her is conversational and grounded.
Clients can expect clear goals, simple practices to use at home, and close attention to how feelings show up in the body and relationships. Lesa offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Lesa blends somatic work with client-centered care and cognitive behavioral techniques. Somatic Therapy focuses on how emotions appear in the body and uses movement, breath, and awareness to reduce physical tension and emotional reactivity. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and reflection so the person sets the pace and priorities for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and offers practical exercises to shift unhelpful habits and manage anxiety or depression.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Lesa will discuss goals and preferences on early sessions and suggest approaches that fit the person's needs. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face work when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be more comfortable for some, and live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins or ongoing practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on real change and practical tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Florida
- Languages
- English