Leslie Mulligan , LCMHC, LCPC

Leslie Mulligan is a licensed counselor with more than 24 years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups across the lifespan. She holds the credentials LCMHC and LCPC - LCMHC stands for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and LCPC stands for Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - and bases her work on a trauma-sensitive, body-centered perspective that integrates mind, heart, and life experience.

Leslie works with people ages 14 to 90 on a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy difficulties, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, coping with life changes, addictions, grief, parenting, sleep and eating issues, mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her additional focuses include attachment and abandonment concerns, blended family and communication challenges, chronic illness and pain, dissociation, domestic violence, and other complex life transitions. For a decade she provided combat and sexual trauma recovery services to active, reserve, and guard military members, their families, and first responders.

Her counseling style is warm, direct, present-centered, creative, and interactive. She describes herself as objective and nonjudgmental and uses a trauma-sensitive mix of cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, psychodynamic, mindfulness, wellness, and art therapy tools to help clarify this stage of a person’s journey. Guided by each client’s goals and needs, Leslie works to deepen life enjoyment and strengthen coping and connection. She emphasizes respect, honesty, and cultural sensitivity while attending to mind, body, spirit, and lived experience as contributors to wellbeing.