Lesley Eckhardt, LCSW

Lesley Eckhardt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida. She brings 27 years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to help people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by life changes. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and midlife concerns, among other struggles.

Lesley uses a client-centered stance that focuses on each person's story and goals. She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-informed work, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage strong emotions and make practical changes. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with attention to how relationships and family patterns affect daily life.

Her background includes long-term work in crisis counseling, school-based services, therapeutic foster care, adoption-related services, and caregiver support. That experience informs how she looks at family of origin issues, attachment wounds, and blended-family challenges. She also has experience supporting people with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, sleep problems, and career transitions.

In therapy with Lesley, clients can expect a mix of listening, problem-solving, and skill-building. She aims to help people notice unhelpful patterns, try small changes, and strengthen coping tools. The focus is practical - improving relationships, regulating mood, and navigating life transitions with greater clarity.

To begin, readers should use the site Start Therapy flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability. That step connects a person to the next practical actions toward change.

How Lesley’s Approaches Work for Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, helping people understand and reshape how they relate to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and testing small changes to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Lesley will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time as priorities shift or new challenges appear.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how meetings are scheduled. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can use breaks or quieter parts of the day for sessions. Licensed professionals can tailor pacing, homework, and skill practice to work well within an online format and to help clients apply gains to daily life.