Lesley Poblete-Creech
Compassionate LCSW blending skills and mindfulness
LCSW Missouri
- Experience
- 12 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Languages
- English
About Lesley
Lesley Poblete-Creech is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Missouri with 12 years of direct practice experience supporting adults and transitional age youth.
Background and approach
She helps people navigating stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, career questions, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, addiction, ADHD, and a broad range of interpersonal and life-transition issues. Her work also addresses adoption and foster care dynamics, attachment and blended family concerns, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and other complex presentations.
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, client-centered and mindfulness-based practices. She has experience facilitating DBT skills groups for adults, young adults, families, and couples, and she integrates yoga-informed breath and mindfulness practices as another avenue clients may use to increase present-moment awareness.
Lesley frames therapy as collaborative, aiming to help clients identify values, build practical coping skills, and move toward meaningful day-to-day changes. Lesley maintains a schedule that includes select weekday evenings, some Saturday morning or daytime slots, and occasional Sunday evenings, and she offers sessions through multiple online formats to accommodate differing needs and schedules.
How CBT, ACT, and Mindfulness Work Online
Lesley commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical strategies for changing behaviors that maintain distress. CBT is often helpful for concerns like anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and career-related stress by breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing new responses.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another approach she employs, focusing on clarifying personal values and building willingness to experience difficult thoughts and feelings while taking action toward meaningful goals. Mindfulness-based practices are woven into sessions to increase present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity, which can support regulation, grief processing, and coping with chronic pain.
Deciding on the right approach is a collaborative process. She assesses each client’s goals, preferences, and experiences and adapts methods over time so the work fits the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy with Lesley includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it possible to practice skills between sessions and to access therapy from home or another convenient location while scheduling around evening and weekend availability.
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Experience
12+ years
Licensed
Missouri
Languages
English