Cathy Leslie

Ph.D. MSW Psychologist

Therapy for Health, Healing, and Wholeness

Welcome. I offer therapy for individuals and couples from my office in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and via tele-health. I believe that challenges in life offer us opportunities to grow into more healthy, resourceful, whole people.

Approach to therapy

Health, healing and wholeness

Influences in my work

My belief

Therapy is a professional relationship organized around empathy, respect, openness, and collaboration. I resonate with British psychologist Peter Lomas, who described therapy as creating “an atmosphere in which risks can be taken, fun can be had, closeness is possible, and the relationship feels alive.” To create this environment, I take a biological, psychological, social, and spiritual/religious approach to understanding challenges you face, which leads to a fuller understanding and more meaningful outcomes.

I have practiced as a licensed psychologist in North Carolina since 1994, and have been studying and working in mental health since 1980. I have the privilege of working with people throughout the Triangle area and beyond, including Fayetteville, Greensboro, Oxford, and Pinehurst.

My academic training includes master’s degrees in social work, psychology, and theology, a doctorate in clinical psychology, and four years of postdoctoral training in psychoanalytic theory and therapy. I consider myself a life long learner, and continually integrate new research findings in psychotherapy outcomes, neuroscience, attachment theory, spirituality and health, and emerging therapeutic modalities to name just a few, into my work.

I learn from each person with whom I am privileged to work. My own life experiences growing up, as a person of faith, wife, mother, friend, and business owner also enrich my work.

I believe that times of change, crisis, challenge, or being stuck in our lives can be opportunities to learn, heal, and mature as human beings. I have found for myself and for many with whom I work, that therapy is a meaningful way of engaging in that process.

Services

Contact

Location

The office is accessible by bus, is handicap accessible, and there is parking in the back of the building. My office is located on the second floor, and the waiting room is to the right as you come in the outside door.

919.932.7710

I am not currently taking new clients.

1709 Legion Rd Suite 223
Chapel Hill NC