Leslie Gray
Change-focused counselor blending insight and skills
LCMHC North Carolina
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Trauma and abuse, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Leslie
Leslie Gray is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with a decade of clinical experience helping people navigate addiction, trauma, mood disorders, and life transitions.
Background and approach
She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with person-centered and existential perspectives to help clients explore meaning, reframe painful experiences, and build practical skills for daily challenges. Her background includes substantial work with substance use and co-occurring conditions, and she brings particular experience addressing trauma, domestic violence, and drug and alcohol addiction.
Gray emphasizes a collaborative, goal-oriented process that honors the range of emotions clients may feel during change, including anger, grief, and frustration. Her approach often pairs insight-focused conversation with concrete strategies drawn from CBT, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness techniques to support coping, reduce symptoms, and promote clearer decision-making.
Based in North Carolina, she works with people confronting anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, relationship and family concerns, career stress, compassion fatigue, and related struggles.
Leslie invites those ready to examine what’s holding them back to take an initial step toward growth and healing, offering a balance of empathetic listening and structured tools to help clients move toward their goals.
Practical approaches for online therapy and healing
Leslie commonly weaves Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and replacing them with more adaptive behaviors and coping strategies, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and creating a nonjudgmental space where clients direct the pace and focus of their growth, helping with self-esteem, relationship concerns, and processing difficult emotions.
Finding the right method is part of the therapeutic journey, and she approaches that decision collaboratively. She will discuss goals, preferences, and the presenting concerns with each client to determine whether CBT techniques, person-centered support, EMDR, or mindfulness practices are most appropriate, and may combine elements to match the client’s needs.
Online treatment offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, allowing therapy to fit varied schedules and day-to-day demands. These formats make it easier for clients to access consistent care, practice skills between sessions, and maintain momentum toward recovery while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed
North Carolina
Languages
English