Leslie Mulligan , LCMHC, LCPC

Leslie Mulligan is a licensed clinical counselor with more than 24 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, families, and groups. She works with people ages 14 to 90, guiding those facing mood instability, relationship and intimacy challenges, family conflict, career and sleep stress, and the complex transitions that come with aging, illness, bereavement, and life-stage shifts. Leslie has a decade of focused work providing recovery services for military combat and sexual trauma survivors, their families, and first responders.

Her therapeutic stance is warm and direct, present-centered, creative, and highly interactive. She brings an objective, nonjudgmental presence and broad clinical experience to help clients clarify where they are and where they want to go. Leslie describes her work as trauma-sensitive and integrates cognitive-behavioral strategies with humanistic insight, psychodynamic perspectives, mindfulness, wellness practices, and art therapy tools to meet each person where they are.

Leslie practices as an LCMHC and LCPC - designations that indicate licensure as a clinical counselor - and she approaches care from a holistic, body-centered viewpoint. Mind, body, heart, thought, spirit, and life experience all shape well-being in her view, and her work aims to deepen enjoyment of life while strengthening resilience and self-direction. Her practice emphasizes cultural sensitivity, honesty, and respect as foundations for meaningful change.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and safety in relationships. It helps people understand how early attachments shape current relationship dynamics and supports rebuilding trust and emotional closeness in partnerships and families.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, acceptance, and the client's own capacity for growth. By providing a respectful, nonjudgmental space, this approach helps people explore values, make decisions, and strengthen self-direction during life transitions and stress.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress management, sleep difficulties, and coping with mood instability.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Leslie collaborates with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative exploration is ongoing and can include combining approaches as progress unfolds.

Online therapy brings the same clinical approaches into flexible formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - so people can access care from home, work, or while traveling. These options allow for scheduling that fits busy lives, easier continuity during transitions, and multiple ways to communicate that meet different comfort levels and learning styles.