Lesley Eckhardt , LCSW

Lesley Eckhardt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with 27 years of clinical experience supporting people across the lifespan. She has extensive experience in crisis intervention, trauma and attachment work, and treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, and ADHD. Lesley’s practice has included work with children, teens, adults, and older adults, as well as multi-generational family systems, allowing her to address individual and relational patterns that affect day-to-day functioning.

Her approach centers on a client-centered stance within a systems framework, which helps clients gain personal and interpersonal insight while building healthier cognitive and behavioral responses. This blend of empathy and structured work supports growth across a range of concerns including stress, relationships, family difficulties, grief, sleep problems, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. Lesley also addresses specialized topics such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication or control issues.

Her background spans crisis counseling, school-based services, therapeutic foster care, parenting support, and adoption work with a particular emphasis on attachment theory. She has also provided homeschool, academic, and career counseling and life coaching, drawing on decades of experience to help clients move past barriers and toward clearer, more effective ways of living.

Approach-Focused Online Therapy with Lesley Eckhardt

Lesley Eckhardt draws from several proven therapeutic approaches to meet each client where they are. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify personal values, notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them, and commit to meaningful action - a useful fit for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Attachment-Based Therapy explores early relational patterns and how they shape current relationships and emotional responses, making it particularly helpful for attachment concerns, relationship difficulties, adoption or foster care issues, and family systems work. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy, nonjudgmental listening, and the client’s own capacity for growth, providing a supportive foundation for work on depression, self-esteem, grief, and caregiving stress.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lesley will work with each person to identify goals, preferences, and practical needs, and will adapt methods as therapy progresses to find the best fit for meaningful change.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility for this work. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation, phone sessions provide an accessible alternative, and live chat or text-based messaging can support check-ins and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to engage consistently while balancing work, family, and other commitments, and they allow licensed professionals to tailor contact methods to each client’s needs.