Leslie Caulder-Richardson

Leslie Caulder-Richardson is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with eight years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, bipolar disorder, and depression. Leslie helps people who feel stuck after life changes or who are questioning what comes next. She also works with concerns around abandonment, attachment, and communication problems.

Her approach blends practical methods and attentive listening. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and solution-focused techniques to help people notice patterns and try different responses. Sessions often involve setting small, manageable goals and practicing skills between meetings.

Leslie also draws on client-centered and mindfulness-based work to slow down difficult thoughts and normalize strong emotions. That can look like focusing on present-moment awareness or naming values that matter most. She encourages straightforward conversations about what is getting in the way of daily functioning and relationships.

She has experience addressing body image, blended family issues, fatherhood questions, and challenges related to chronic illness and cancer. Leslie works with people exploring BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture, and with those coping with domestic violence, divorce, or separation.

People who pick her often want clear steps and practical strategies rather than abstract advice. To begin, she asks about current struggles, short-term goals, and what a better day would look like. That helps guide the first sessions and the plan moving forward.

How Leslie uses therapeutic approaches in online work

Leslie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify what matters to them and take actions that align with those values. ACT often focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and choosing steps that move a person toward meaningful activity rather than getting stuck in avoidance.

She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify thought patterns and test them against real-life evidence. CBT sessions tend to include practical experiments and homework to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Client-centered and mindfulness ideas appear across her work, helping people slow down and describe what they are feeling in the moment.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Leslie will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. From there she helps decide which methods to try and adjusts the plan as needed, keeping the process collaborative.

The biography does not list specific online formats, so confirm session options before booking. In general, online sessions can make meetings easier to fit into a day, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and remove travel time. Therapists can use these sessions to practice skills, check progress on short goals, and maintain continuity between in-person visits when that is useful.