Relational Somatics for trauma resolution and attachment repatterning
Coming home to belonging and aliveness
The body is the instrument of the soul.
It carries our intelligence, our history, and our deepest truths. When we slow down and listen, we return to the inner essence we’ve always known. Opening to more warmth, intimacy, and flow strengthens the pulse of life inside us—and becomes a quiet act of peace that extends far beyond our own lives.
As a somatic therapist, I help you find the physiological, emotional, and psychological openings that bring you into greater alignment with your life’s natural design. These openings create space for more ease, authenticity, and connection. My work honors the beautiful, messy complexity of who you are and gently invites you to trust your own innate intelligence—the part of you that already knows wholeness.
Returning to this deeper Self asks for presence, support, and sometimes the kind of insight that shakes us out of familiar patterns. Conditioning, trauma, undigested emotion, and embodied tension can make it hard to hear the quieter voice within. Over time, we can feel worn down or disconnected, meeting life with the same habits and losing touch with the wisdom that has always carried us.
As we soften our resistance and attune to the intelligence moving through all things, we begin to see life as a teacher—inviting us to grow, shed old layers, and come home to ourselves.
I believe in support and challenge, joy and pain, relief and transformation.
This work welcomes the whole spectrum.
Begin With the Body
Our bodies hold both the imprint of everything we’ve lived and the map back to who we are. By listening to the body—its sensations, patterns, and stories—we open pathways out of collapse and confusion and into resilience, clarity, and empowerment.
“80% or more of health conditions are autonomic nervous system events.”
—James Jealous
The autonomic nervous system (ANS) quietly shapes how we respond to stress, fear, anger, trauma, and emotional intensity—as well as how we sleep, digest, and heal. Modern life challenges this sensitive system with constant stimulation, speed, and relational complexity. These pressures often layer on top of unresolved overwhelm—abuse, accidents, betrayal, threat, or abandonment—still stored in the body.
When the nervous system is overloaded, it struggles to do its job. We may feel a steady hum of anxiety, or notice sleep, digestion, and immunity begin to falter. Over time, this can collapse into exhaustion, depression, chronic pain, or a sense of disconnection from life. As we work to restore a sense of safety in the body, the innate intelligence of the body is supported to do what it knows best—recover, heal and unburden itself.
This is why nervous system regulation is central to my work.
Through a body-centered, trauma-informed approach, I work with the body’s natural wisdom to move, guide, and heal. This often means completing cycles of stuck activation and integrating what’s been held. With present-moment awareness, safety, and a blend of therapeutic modalities, we create space for more ease, resilience, and connection.
Modalities I Draw From
Somatic Experiencing
Internal Family Systems (somatic focus)
Jungian Psychology
Polarity & Craniosacral Therapy
Yoga (8-limbed path)
Nature-Based Therapy
Somatic & Attachment-Focused EMDR
This integrative approach helps unwind emotional patterns, restore inner coherence, and reconnect you with the deeper Self that has always been guiding you.
WORK WITH Leslie
Psychotherapy
Coaching & consultation
Restorative touch
embodied awareness
In the context of traumatic stress, "recovery or resolution" 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 and the accompanied emotions 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