Lesley Eckhardt , LCSW

Lesley Eckhardt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with 27 years of clinical experience working across the lifespan. As an LCSW Lesley is trained and licensed to provide clinical psychotherapy and case management, and she brings decades of work in crisis intervention, trauma, attachment concerns, depression, anxiety, PTSD, and ADHD to her practice. She has supported children, teens, adults, older adults, and multi-generational family systems, helping individuals and families navigate difficult transitions and longstanding relational patterns.

Lesley approaches therapy from a client-centered perspective within a systems framework, emphasizing personal insight and shifts in interpersonal dynamics that promote healthier thinking and behavior. She integrates evidence-informed methods to meet each person's needs, drawing on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), attachment-based and trauma-focused interventions, and mindfulness-oriented work. This flexible foundation allows her to tailor treatment to issues like stress, relationships and family conflict, grief, parenting challenges, sleep difficulties, anger, low self-esteem, career concerns, bipolar disorder management, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.

Her background includes roles in crisis counseling, school-based counseling, therapeutic foster care, parenting support, and adoption work with a focus on attachment. Lesley has also provided homeschool, academic, and career counseling as well as life coaching, which informs a practical and strengths-based orientation to treatment. Compassion and acceptance guide her work as she partners with clients to identify and break ties that limit growth, build healthier coping strategies, and move toward meaningful change.