Location
Offers online therapy
During this unprecedented time in our lives our tendency is to isolate. Reaching out to another allows us to feel more connected and assured
About
My psychotherapy practice is informed by formal training in contemplative and psychodynamic therapies, valuing health and wellness. My framework is a natural outcome of my own ongoing therapeutic work and developing spiritual practice, allowing me to more fluently move between the spiritual language of love and compassion and the psychological language of emotional distress and resiliency. The focus is on the here and now, understanding that your early developmental experiences affect your present feelings, mood, and behavior, often masking your natural capacity for well-being. Those experiencing life changes, challenges, transitions, such as loss and grief, anxiety, depression, trauma, divorce, work-related issues would benefit.
Individual, Couples, Family Therapy to those experiencing challenging life events wishing to restore a wholeness that is life affirming. Supervision: Clinicians are introduced to a Contemplative Model; trusting our inner knowing in service of our clients, unleashing hope and creativity, essential for individual growth, where its wisdom is at the heart of all emotional healing.
Working contemplatively, we uncover these patterns of behavior and beliefs that interfere with personal and professional growth, making room for continuous self-reflection, deepening awareness, and the development of stronger, more sustaining connections. A successful therapeutic experience ensures a genuine collaboration between client and therapist where new understanding can emerge.
Call or Email Leslie Reed Shields for a free 15 minute consultation now - (516) 252-0595
Finances
- Cost per Session: $150 - $250
Pay By:
ACH Bank transfer, Cash, Check, Venmo
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Medicare
- Out of Network
Verify your health insurance coverage when you arrange your first visit.
Qualifications
- License: New York / R030570
- Please note: License state differs from primary location state.
- School: Fordham University
- Year Graduated: 1983
Additional Credentials
- Certificate: William Alanson White Institute / Organizational Development
- Certificate Date: 1997
- Certificate: Smith College School of Social Work / Contemplative Psychotherapy
- Certificate Date: 2008
Leslie Reed Shields's Groups
Practitioner Group
Practitioner Group : For those interested in nurturing a contemplative foundation in their practice, participants are offered a milieu that values curiosity; in which they are encouraged to ask of themselves and each other the questions that are the central action to transformation and individuation.
Location
Offers online therapy
Specialties
- Depression
- Relationship Issues
- Trauma and PTSD
Issues
- ADHD
- Abortion, maternal health, post partum depression
- Addiction
- Anxiety
- Autism
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Career Counseling
- Child
- Coping Skills
- Divorce
- Domestic Abuse
- Domestic Violence
- Dual Diagnosis
- Grief
- Learning Disabilities
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Parenting
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Self Esteem
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Substance Use
Mental Health
- Dissociative Disorders
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Psychosis
Client Focus
Faith:
Buddhist
Age
- Elders (65+)
- Adults
- Teen
Communities
- Cancer
- Lesbian Allied
- Transgender Allied
Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Coaching
- Contemplative/ Spiritual/ Buddist Psychotherapy
- Emotionally Focused
- Family / Marital
- Family Systems
- Psychodynamic
Modality
- Individuals
- Couples
- Family
Last Modified: 3 Feb 2022
(516) 252-0595