Leslie Cross, LCPC

Leslie Cross is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 25 years of experience in Maryland. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and depression. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, and she aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable.

Leslie shapes conversations and care around what each person needs. She listens for the practical problems behind worry, persistent low mood, and conflicts that strain daily life. Her work includes support for communication problems, feelings of isolation, and struggles with obsessive thoughts or panic attacks.

Clients may also bring concerns about life purpose, midlife transitions, seasonal mood shifts, or difficult patterns linked to narcissistic behavior. She helps people talk through these issues and consider small, practical changes they can try between sessions. The focus is on workable steps rather than abstract theory.

Leslie adapts plans to individual goals and circumstances. She stresses collaboration so people feel involved in decisions about what to try next. Her approach is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping people regain steadier footing.

If you’re weighing whether to begin, she recognizes that taking the first step takes courage. To start, select the continue button on this profile, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

How evidence-based approaches guide online work

Leslie uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with common problems like anxiety and depression. One approach focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns to reduce worry and low mood. This involves noticing automatic thoughts, testing them, and trying small behavior changes to see what helps in daily life.

Another approach emphasizes building better communication and coping skills for relationships and parenting. It looks at how people interact, teaches clearer ways to express needs, and practices small experiments to improve connection and problem solving.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Leslie works collaboratively with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and comfort level. She will adapt methods over time based on what is most helpful.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Generally, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use video or audio in ways that suit them, and it supports continuing work between in-person appointments when that is helpful.