Dr. Leslie Davis

Dr. Leslie Davis is a Virginia-licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people manage anger and other intense emotions. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. She listens with respect and works to make sessions feel steady and focused.

Her approach is collaborative. She adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs. That can mean slowing down to understand attachment wounds, using practical skills to change unhelpful thinking, or practicing emotional awareness in the moment.

Leslie often combines client-centered conversation with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused methods. That mix helps people notice patterns, speak about hard feelings, and try new behaviors between sessions. Mindfulness practices may be added to reduce reactivity and build calm over time.

She has supported people through stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family struggles, trauma and abuse, grief, addiction challenges, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also works on concerns like parenting strain, caregiver stress, impulsivity, and first responder issues.

Getting started involves a straightforward intake and a short matching questionnaire to find a good fit. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and scheduling is arranged based on therapist availability. If you want to explore how anger shows up in your life, she can help you map what to try next.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and trust. Online sessions can help identify patterns of closeness and distance and try new ways of relating in real time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to test unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that feed anger or anxiety.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean trying skill-building one week and deeper emotional processing another week, then adjusting based on what helps most.

Confirm the exact session options before booking, as formats are set by the practice. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a lunch break, or working without needing travel time. It also allows people to practice new interactions in the places they live and then talk about what happened in the next session. Licensed professionals can help adapt exercises and mindfulness practices for use between appointments.