Lesley Poblete-Creech, LCSW

Lesley Poblete-Creech is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Missouri with 12 years of direct-practice experience. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, career concerns, relationship and intimacy challenges, grief, and midlife transitions. Lesley also helps those facing addictions, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and parenting strain. Her approach aims to help people take practical steps toward clearer priorities and steadier days.

Lesley blends mindfulness-based practices with evidence-informed therapies during sessions. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, and client-centered methods to help people notice patterns and try new responses. She has facilitated DBT skills groups for young adults and adults, and has experience offering groups aimed at families and couples.

Lesley is also a 200-hour certified yoga teacher and sometimes offers yoga as a supplemental tool in appointments. She frames yoga as breath-based practice anyone can do to build present-moment focus. Outside work she is a first-time dog mom and draws on everyday routines to show how small choices shape daily life.

She emphasizes creating an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. Sessions focus on practical strategies clients can use between meetings. Lesley seeks to support people as they identify values, set workable goals, and move toward a more purposeful life.

Her background includes direct clinical work with transitional-age youth starting around 16 and adults 18 and older. Lesley balances clinical work with a full-time role outside of therapy and typically holds weekday evenings and select weekend times.

How her approaches guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them, which can help with life transitions, career questions, and motivation. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and aims to create a supportive space for exploring feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.

Confirm the specific session options before booking, as formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten commute time, and allow for evening or weekend scheduling when offered. It also supports focused check-ins or skill practice between sessions, and can be a useful way to keep therapy consistent while balancing work and family demands.