Leslie Westbrook , LMFT

Leslie Westbrook is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with five years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Leslie also offers coaching-style support to help clients build healthier habits and stronger self-worth.

She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Leslie listens closely and helps people name what feels hard. Together they set small goals and practice skills that can be used between sessions.

Leslie often works with issues tied to attachment, guilt, shame, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people navigating social anxiety, forgiveness work, and growing self-love. Women's issues are part of her focus, and she brings attention to challenges that commonly arise for women.

Her approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas with mindfulness and longer-term psychodynamic thinking. She also uses EMDR and trauma-focused techniques when appropriate to process painful memories. Sessions tend to combine talk, skill practice, and gentle exploration of past patterns.

Leslie aims for a warm, nonjudgmental tone and a collaborative pace. New clients can expect clear explanations of steps and homework that feels doable. The goal is steady progress toward more calm, clearer thinking, and better day-to-day coping.

How Leslie’s approaches work online

Leslie integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR into online sessions to help people reduce distress and change unhelpful thinking. CBT focuses on identifying stressful thought patterns and practicing new ways of thinking and behaving to ease anxiety and depression. EMDR is used to process traumatic memories through guided attention and recall, which can help lessen the intensity of past events.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Leslie will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most manageable. Together they plan which methods to try first and adjust the approach over time based on what helps most.

Online formats offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls let therapists and clients practice skills face to face and read body language. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.