Leslie Warren, LICSW

Leslie Warren is an LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Alabama with three years of post-licensure clinical experience. She lists work with stress, anxiety, parenting, self-esteem, addictions, relationships, family concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, career matters, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also focuses on adoption and foster care, fertility issues, caregiving stress, attachment and family of origin issues, and related concerns.

Leslie favors a client-centered approach. She treats the client as the expert in their own life and works collaboratively to set clear, measurable goals. Sessions focus on practical steps clients can try, with an emphasis on understanding how behaviors lead to different outcomes.

She uses solution-focused techniques to identify immediate next steps, and cognitive behavioral methods to link thoughts, feelings, and actions. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to talk about patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages. The mix is meant to be straightforward and actionable rather than theoretical.

Leslie expects a partnership in therapy rather than one-way advice. She aims to teach skills like stopping to notice choices, thinking through options, and acting on manageable steps. That approach appears in work with grief, infertility-related stress, caregiving strain, and general anxiety.

Her prior experience includes agency-based social services and clinical roles supporting caregivers, people with disabilities, and older adults. She holds a Master of Social Work and a Master in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Alabama and brings case management and group therapy experience to individual sessions.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions