LeShunn McLeod, LPC

LeShunn McLeod is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, and life changes. She addresses concerns like self-esteem, bipolar disorder, ADHD, relationship struggles, parenting stress, and issues related to adoption or caregiver burden. She draws on a variety of approaches to match each person’s needs and goals.

McLeod has worked in counseling since 2016 and brings ten years of experience across settings. Her background includes individual, group, and family therapy in both residential and outpatient programs. She has provided services in-office and online and has worked with people at different stages of recovery and transition.

Her style tends to be practical and collaborative. She focuses on helping people make clearer choices and find real solutions that fit daily life. Sessions typically involve talking through current problems, building skills, and practicing strategies that can be used between meetings.

LeShunn commonly combines techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Client-Centered Therapy. Those tools are used to reduce distress, increase coping skills, and support behavior change when needed.

She works in Alabama and conducts sessions in English. To begin, readers are invited to use the site Start Therapy process to match and schedule according to availability.

Approaches used in online sessions and how they help

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions that move a person toward a life they care about. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches practical skills to change reactions and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills for intense mood or relationship challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean mixing techniques across approaches or trying one method for a while and adjusting as progress is made.

The biography indicates experience with online work, but specific session formats are not listed here. Confirm current options before booking so you know how sessions will be offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow quicker check-ins when issues arise. It can also let someone have sessions without needing to be on camera, when that helps them focus. Licensed professionals use these formats to support consistent work toward clearer choices and better daily coping.