Somatic Trauma therapy & Hands on Bodywork
in Colorado and North Carolina
Your body knows the way back to you.
Move beyond the limits of talk therapy. Experience somatic healing and relational depth in Boulder, CO, and throughout North Carolina.
You’ve been so good at holding everything together.
What would it feel like to finally be held?
You know your story by heart. You can explain your past, your patterns, and your triggers with perfect clarity. Yet the "clench" in your jaw, the bracing in your chest, and weight in your heart remain.
For many people, that space was never reliably available — not in childhood, not in the relationships they've most depended on. The body learned to hold everything alone. Our work is to change that.. Whether we meet in my Boulder office or via telehealth in North Carolina, our work goes beyond "talking about" the pain. We listen to the language of your body to unwind old survival patterns and create a genuine, felt sense of ease.
As Hillary McBride writes in The Wisdom of Your Body:
"When it comes to our bodies, most of us are living on the front lawn. We are looking at our bodies from the outside only, and we have not yet learned how to move back in."
The work is the return. It asks us to cross the threshold and walk, room by room, into the places we've kept at a distance — where sensation speaks, where our parts are waiting, where the body has been holding our story all along. Real healing doesn't happen on the lawn. It happens inside, in the slow practice of meeting what has been here the whole time.
whether you're the one everyone leans on, or you've simply spent years learning to manage everything alone
You spend your life caring, tending to, and holding space for others, creating, or leading, but you often feel disconnected from the needs of your own internal world. You are probably very good at understanding yourself, yet something still feels just out of reach. Not broken, just waiting for a different kind of attention. The kind that is welcoming, subtle, and starts with the body.
Are navigating a life transition — a move, a loss, a relationship ending — and feel it landing in your body in ways you didn't expect.
You may carry the weight of past trauma or attachment wounds as a sense of chronic bracing, disconnection, or "not enough"
Carry chronic physical symptoms — tension, pain, fatigue — that haven't resolved despite years of effort.
Live with depression that feels less like sadness and more like a heaviness, a flatness, or a sense of being cut off from yourself
Are neurodivergent and have spent years masking, adapting, or wondering why the world feels so much louder for you than for everyone else
Feel "stuck" in loops of anxiety, or chronic self-criticism.
Crave deeper intimacy but find yourself self-abandoning to get it.
Want to trade "performing" for a real sense of belonging.
How we work together
I integrate Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Relational Therapy to help you inhabit your life fully. I also use Brainspotting — a precision neurobiological approach that accesses the body's natural capacity to heal when given the right relational conditions.
Physiological Resilience: We track your nervous system in real-time. You’ll learn to navigate stress and discomfort without shutting down or boiling over.
Internal Harmony: We get curious about your "parts": the critics, the achievers, and the ones carrying old wounds. This is so they can finally stop fighting for control.
Relational Freedom: We repair the way you relate to yourself and others. You’ll learn to claim your boundaries and express your needs without the weight of shame.
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Most therapy asks you to talk about what happened. Somatic therapy asks you to notice what's happening right now — in your chest, your breath, your nervous system. This is where real change lives.
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You are not one thing. The part of you that wants to heal and the part that keeps self-sabotaging are both trying to protect you — they just don't know how to stop fighting. IFS helps you lead from the calm, grounded core underneath all of it.
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Some things can't be talked through — they have to be found. Brainspotting locates where trauma and stress are held in the brain and body, below language, below memory, below the part of you that already understands everything and still can't seem to shift. When we find that spot and hold it with steady, attuned presence, your brain's own capacity to heal finally has the conditions it needs. You don't have to narrate or explain. The body leads, and the work happens from the inside out.
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You don't fight about what you think you fight about. Underneath every cycle of conflict, distance, or disconnection is an attachment need that never quite got voiced — a longing to matter, to be safe, to be truly known. Couples therapy helps you find what's actually driving the dance between you, so you can stop repeating it and start building something real.
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About Me
A steady, attuned presence for your deepest work.
I’m Leslie and I came to this work the way most of us do — through my own unwinding. I know what its like to be fluent in your own patterns and still feel stuck inside them. To give generously and struggle to let anything land in return. That gap between knowing and feeling is exactly where we can work together. I bring clinical training, bodywork expertise, a lot of experiential knowledge, and a deep belief that learning to receive isn’t a soft goal or side effect. Its the main medicine. A nervous system that knows how to take something in — comfort, support, nourishment, rest — is a nervous system that is actually healthy. That’s what we are building here.
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Getting started is simple
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Book online
Reach out using my online scheduling system.
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We Connect
We’ll meet for a 20 minute consultation. You can ask me questions, and we’ll see if my approach feels like the right fit for your nervous system.
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Begin the Work
If this feels like the right fit, we’ll schedule your initial intake appointment and start the work of inhabitation and healing.