Relational Somatics for trauma resolution and attachment repatterning
Psychotherapy * Coaching * Restorative Touch
The body is the instrument of the soul, holding an innate intelligence and story of our lives. When we take time to listen, we reconnect with the essence of who we truly are. Each scar, ache, and breath reflects the experiences that have either drawn us away from that inner connection or through process and integration brought us closer to it. This same innate intelligence that helps us survive life’s challenges also knows how to guide us in healing. I believe the inner work we do—opening to more warmth, intimacy, and flow— strengthen the pulse of life inside us and is a quiet and powerful act of world peace, rippling out far beyond what we can ever see.
At the heart of my work is a simple but profound intention: to help you reconnect with your own inner wisdom, to listen deeply and trust yourself, and to bring your unique gifts into the world by living as your most authentic self. It is a joy to support those who feel called to explore the depths of their experience and reconnect with a true sense of Self and belonging. My work combines practical psychological and physiological guidance with soul-centered exploration, offering a space for insight, healing, and meaningful connection. By slowing down and tuning in, we can untangle from the pain of the past and shift into a whole new way of experiencing ourselves and the world around us.
Begin With the Body
Our bodies carry the imprint of everything we’ve lived. By listening to the wisdom of the body—its sensations, patterns, and stories—we open pathways from collapse and confusion into resilience, vitality, and confidence.
My Approach
With more than a decade of experience in trauma, resiliency and depth work, I integrate talk-based, body-based, mindfulness-based, and transpersonal therapies.
Modalities I draw from include:
Somatic Experiencing
Internal Family Systems (somatic focus)
Jungian Psychology
Polarity and Craniosacral Therapy
Yoga (8-limbed path)
Nature-Based Therapy
Somatic and Attachment Focused EMDR
This integrative approach helps untangle emotional patterns and restores connection to the deeper Self.
WORK WITH Leslie
Psychotherapy
Coaching & consultation
Restorative touch
embodied awareness
In the context of traumatic stress, "recovery" is largely defined by one’s ability to regain a felt sense of safety and trust. This means having capacity to process or digest traumatic experiences without feeling overwhelmed or threatened. We grow this capacity by learning to consciously maintain connection to an internal felt sense of safety and support. This enables clients to heal and move forward with their life.
somatic experiencing
“To experience embodied awareness, take notice of the underlying sensations that actually inform you about how you feel. If you were to be asked how you feel when you are stressed or in pain, a common answer might be, “I feel anxious” or “I feel upset.” It’s important to go further by becoming curious about how you know that you’re feeling anxious or upset. Is there a tightness or burning that is happening right now inside of you that you are labeling “anxiety” or “upset”?”
― Peter A. Levine
Somatic Internal Family Systems
“IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that when I was able to help clients access their Self, they would spontaneously begin to relate to their parts in the loving way that the textbooks on attachment theory prescribed. This was true even for people who had never had good parenting in the first place. Not only would they listen to their young exiles with loving attention and hold them patiently while they cried, they would firmly but lovingly discipline the parts in the roles of inner critics or distractors. Self just knows how to be a good inner leader.”
― Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Restorative Touch
Restorative Touch is a unique creation based on Advanced Somatic Trainings, Transforming Touch, Cranial Sacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Reiki, and years of advanced massage and bodywork trainings. These sessions are touch based interventions (sessions are also offered virtually through energetic intention and focused attention) to assist the mind and body in recovering from physical and emotional overwhelm, which can also be called traumatic experiences. These experiences can range from the earliest of moments of life to current ongoing chronic pain. This body oriented touch modality works to create new pathways in our neurophysiology by introducing the intentional presence of safe and loving touch. Using touch, we can have direct access to the physiology of developmental trauma, the resulting personality and attachment style, and can move far beyond the limitations of verbal exploration.
embodied movement
Body-Mind Centering (BMC) is a creative, experiential approach to movement, consciousness, and the body that uses movement, touch, voice, and mind. It was developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and is based on the application of anatomical, physiological, psychophysical, and developmental principles. This practice is an ongoing, experiential journey into the dynamic, ever-changing landscape of the body. The mind—our thoughts, feelings, energy, soul, and spirit—is the explorer. Through this journey, we discover how the mind finds expression through the body’s movement
“Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within.”— Gabor Mate
“Health is not merely of the body. It is the natural expression of the body, mind and soul when they are in rhythm with the One Life. True health is the harmony of life within us, consisting of peace of mind, happiness and well-being. It is not merely a question of physical fitness, but is rather a result of the soul finding free expression through the mind and body of the individual.” —Dr. Randolph Stone, DO, DC Founder of Polarity Therapy