Somatic Trauma Therapy & Hands-On Bodywork in Colorado and North Carolina
Working with your Body, not just talking about it.
In-person in Boulder and by telehealth throughout Colorado and North Carolina.
Some pain doesn't resolve by talking about it. You can understand it completely and still feel it in the body.
I work somatically — which means we don't just talk. We listen to what your body is saying and follow it, at whatever pace it sets. Sessions are in my Boulder office or by telehealth across Colorado and North Carolina.
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 moving back in — at your pace, into what's already there.
Caring for others can quietly tip into running on empty — still functioning, but cut off from your own inner world.
This work may be a good fit if you:
Are moving through a major life transition, loss, or grief — a move, a breakup, an ending, a beginning
Carry trauma or attachment wounds that show up as chronic bracing, disconnection, or a quiet sense of "not enough"
Feel a deep fatigue that sleep doesn't change
Live with anxiety that loops through mind and body without fully settling
Live with depression that feels less like sadness and more like heaviness, flatness, or numbness
Struggle with chronic tension and pain that hasn't resolved despite years of effort
Are neurodivergent or highly sensitive and have spent years masking, adapting, or wondering why the world feels louder for you
Crave deeper intimacy but it seems just out of reach
Are tired of performing and long for a real sense of belonging and self-trust
How we work together
I work with Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Relational Therapy, and Brainspotting. These aren't a program I run you through — they're ways of listening, so I can meet what's actually happening in your body and stay with it.
Mostly, the work is listening on two channels at once: to what you're saying, and to how your body is holding it. What we find there, we follow.
Your nervous system, in real time. We pay attention to what's happening in your body as it happens — the bracing, the settling, the shifts — and let that guide the pace.
The parts of you carrying old weight. We get curious about the critics, the achievers, the ones holding old wounds — not to fix them, but so they don't have to keep fighting for control.
The way you relate — to yourself and others. As the body finds more safety, how you meet yourself and other people can start to change too.
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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.
I'm Leslie. I came to this work through my own unwinding, so I know what it's like to be fluent in your own patterns and still feel stuck inside them.
I offer a steady, attuned presence for whatever you bring. I won't always know where we're headed — but I know how to stay with whatever we meet, and how to listen to what your body is telling us along the way.
I don't think I know what's best for you. What I bring is years of training and practice in one thing: how to be with what's here — the pain, the bracing, the parts that don't trust yet — without needing to fix it or rush it somewhere else.
Learn more about me here
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.