Leslie Hagedorn , LCSW

Leslie Hagedorn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Indiana who meets people with respect for the courage it takes to seek help. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process, honoring each person’s decision to pursue growth and offering practical tools to address the struggles that feel most limiting.

Her background combines extensive direct service and formal training. Leslie has post-graduate clinical experience and years of hands-on work as a direct service provider, along with supervised field experience gained during a doctoral-level clinical psychology program that included assessment training. She has focused much of her graduate study on substance use and co-occurring disorders, and her clinical training spans EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Motivational Interviewing, Community Reinforcement and Family Training, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, dissociative conditions, the neuroscience of anxiety, and the Matrix Model for substance use treatment.

Leslie’s practice has emphasized complex trauma, substance-related and process addictions, co-occurring mental health conditions, and work with forensic populations. She also has experience treating anxiety and mood disorders, personality and delusional presentations, parents of young children, and adolescents. Leslie draws on her training and experience to help clients identify goals, build coping strategies, and pursue meaningful change at a pace that fits their lives.