Somatic, Internal Family Systems, and EMotion Focused Therapy

Healing through relationship: to yourself, your body, and the world around you

A return to Belonging and Aliveness

Hi! I’m Leslie, and I’m so glad you are here

At The Embodied Self, I offer an integrated blend of modalities that are heavily influenced by training in Somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Emotion Focused therapy. I work with clients throughout Colorado and North Carolina who want a deeper, more integrative path to connection and intimacy. Our work attends to sensation, emotions, the stories we tell, breath, parts of self, and nervous system states so change happens from the inside out.

Who This Work Is For

This work may be a good fit for you if you:

• Feel anxious, overwhelmed, or chronically tense

• Identify as creative, artistic, neurodivergent, highly sensitive, empathic, or emotionally attuned

• Struggle with relationship or attachment patterns

• Experience short or prolonged periods of grief or depression

• Feel disconnected from your body or inner sense of safety

• Have experienced trauma or complex PTSD

• Are drawn to depth, embodiment, and self-understanding

Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, self-aware, and seeking a therapy experience that honors the whole person —

body, mind, and soul.

I can support you with:

• Aligning with your truth, claiming boundaries, clarifying your needs, taking healthy risks, and expressing yourself in new ways

• Processing traumatic experiences and physical injury

• Developing relational skills that deepen intimacy and trust

• Expanding your capacity to be with discomfort and hard emotions such as guilt, shame, grief, rage, fear, and anxiety

• Cultivating radical self love by investing more energy, time and resources into practices, people, and places that nourish your radiance, confidence, and joy

• Nurturing self-compassion and trust through change

• Nervous system regulation and health

• Building resilience in the face of uncertainty

• Untethering conditioned ways of being that no longer serve you

• Making necessary lifestyle shifts

• Strengthen your innate gifts by learning the language of your body

How I Work

I approach therapy from a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model, a holistic framework that looks at the whole person—body, mind, relationships, and meaning. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, this approach recognizes that your physical health, emotional life, social environment, and sense of purpose are deeply interconnected and constantly shaping one another. My approach blends:

Somatic Therapy — working with the body and nervous system as essential pathways for healing

Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) — access, deepen, explore, express, and transform emotion

Internal Family Systems (IFS) — compassionate parts work that helps your core Self lead with clarity and calm

Together, these approaches support lasting change by addressing both physiology and inner experience.

What It’s Like to Begin

Starting therapy can feel vulnerable. I offer a free 15-minute consultation so you can ask questions and see if this feels like a good fit.

You don’t need to know exactly what to say — simply reaching out is enough.