Leslie Westbrook, LCSW

Leslie Westbrook is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in New Jersey with seven years of professional experience. She works with adults on stress, anxiety, family concerns, anger, self-esteem, and attention difficulties such as ADHD. Sessions are presented in straightforward language and focus on practical steps to manage day-to-day problems.

Leslie uses a mix of approaches to help people notice what keeps them stuck and try different ways of responding. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns that make stress and anger worse. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help slow down reactivity and Psychodynamic ideas to look at long-running patterns that affect relationships.

In a session she talks through specific situations - what happened, what you felt, and what you tried. That often leads to small experiments to test new responses between meetings. She pays attention to communication problems, control issues, impulse-related behavior, and guilt or shame that can feed anger and low self-esteem.

Leslie has experience supporting people dealing with workplace stress, social anxiety, isolation, and mood fluctuations including seasonal affective disorder. She also works with concerns around body image, self-love, and attachment difficulties. Her approach aims to be practical and direct, with clear goals you can check on as you go.

If you prefer sessions in English and are located in New Jersey, Leslie may be a fit. International clients are not accepted. To begin, follow the site's steps to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

How Leslie uses CBT, mindfulness, and psychodynamic ideas online