Leslie Ramos, LMHC

Leslie Ramos is a licensed mental health counselor who blends practical skills with a warm, interactive style. She draws on clear, goal-focused methods to help people reduce anxiety, manage mood symptoms, and handle overwhelming stress.

Leslie has seven years of experience working in community and private settings. She has supported people facing depression, trauma and abuse, obsessive thoughts and compulsions, and attention difficulties such as ADHD. She also helps with relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and career questions.

In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside acceptance-based and client-centered approaches. That means conversations aim to identify unhelpful thinking, build new coping habits, and clarify personal values. Other approaches she uses include dialectical skills for emotion regulation and emotionally-focused ideas for working through relational pain.

Her tone in the room is respectful and straightforward. She focuses on practical steps you can try between meetings, like new ways of handling difficult thoughts, small behavior changes, and skills for calming intense emotions.

Leslie works with people in Florida and speaks English and Spanish. She holds an LMHC credential and maintains clinical practice that is informed by both community and private-setting experience.

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Leslie commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy when working online. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small behavior experiments to change patterns that keep problems going, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep issues. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take values-based action even when uncomfortable feelings are present, which can be useful for stress, grief, and coping with life changes.

She views finding the best approach as a collaborative process. During early sessions she will listen to your goals and preferences, explain different ways of working, and then tailor the mix of techniques to match what you want to accomplish together.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversational work and skills practice, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets you send updates between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when in-person visits are difficult.