Dr. Leslie Ho is a child and adolescent psychologist. Her therapeutic style emphasizes evidence-based treatment that is compassionate, strengths-based, and culturally responsive. Using trauma-informed therapy approaches, she aims to make therapy a space of safety, stability, and empowerment for both parents and children.
Dr. Ho specializes in cognitive and behaviorally based therapies that help children and their parents better understand the how’s and why’s of their emotions, behaviors, and thinking patterns and practice effective ways of coping with life challenges. She also incorporates mindfulness, self-compassion, and social-emotional learning based on client needs.
Dr. Ho works individually with children and adolescents for concerns relating to depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma exposure, and grief. She also provides support to parents for managing children’s emotional and behavioral needs. Her goal is to help families build mental and emotional resilience by strengthening parent-child relationships, increasing emotional and behavioral self-regulation, and enhancing problem solving and communication skills. She hopes to support children in thriving as confident and self-attuned individuals.
In addition to therapy services, Dr. Ho also provides psychological assessments for children and adolescents for concerns about learning disorders and neurodevelopmental differences. These assessments commonly address adaptive functioning, academic performance, intelligence, and attention and executive-functioning. Through assessment and individualized recommendations, she aims to help families better understand and support their children’s unique needs.
Leslie Ho, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. Her training emphasized scientific research in addition to evidence-based therapy and assessment. Her graduate research focused on social-emotional learning interventions and the development of emotion regulation and emotion knowledge in children, an emphasis that she continues in therapy by supporting clients in developing emotion learning and social-emotional problem-solving strategies. She completed internship and fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles where she received further specialization in trauma and grief-informed treatment. She has worked in community outpatient, hospital, and school-based settings and has extensive experience consulting with school and medical professionals to support comprehensive care.
At Mind Study Center, Dr. Ho provides evidence-based and compassionate individualized care to children and adolescents for concerns relating to depression, anxiety, OCD, trauma exposure, and grief. She uses a biopsychosocial lens that views mental health as a core aspect of whole-body health and takes into account the biological, psychological, and social aspects that influence mental and physical health. She is committed to supporting children and families in building resilience and using their unique differences to thrive.
