Lesa Leiden
Experienced therapist for relationship and life changes
LPC, LMHC Oregon
- Experience
- 21 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Intimacy-related issues
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Lesa
Lesa Leiden is a licensed therapist with more than 21 years of experience. She helps people who are facing relationship strain, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and challenges around intimacy or sexual identity.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses attention difficulties and major life transitions. Lesa takes a warm, client-centered approach.
She listens first and learns each person's story before suggesting steps forward. Sessions focus on clearer communication, practical coping strategies, and making choices that match a person's values and goals.
She draws on several approaches to fit the situation. Gottman Method tools support clearer interaction patterns in close relationships.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thinking and build new behaviors. Mindfulness and Jungian ideas can deepen self-understanding and meaning when that is helpful.
Lesa has supported people dealing with blended family issues, divorce and separation, fertility and caregiver stress, chronic illness, and concerns tied to kink or non-monogamous relationships. She also works with issues like jealousy, infidelity, commitment questions, and midlife reevaluation.
Lesa holds Oregon credentials as an LPC and a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC. She offers sessions in English and meets with people using video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then sessions are scheduled according to availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Lesa often uses the Gottman Method to help people notice interaction patterns and build healthier ways to communicate in close relationships. Gottman tools focus on practical exercises and clearer dialogue to reduce conflict and increase connection.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on empathic listening and supporting a person to find their own answers, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, which helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes to improve mood and functioning. These approaches can help with anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Lesa will work with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and the issues at hand. She adjusts techniques over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be used for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to keep continuity during life changes.
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Experience
21+ years
Licensed in
Oregon, Florida
Languages
English