Relational Somatics
Psychotherapy * Coaching * Restorative Touch
The body is the instrument of the soul, and in its wisdom, it carries the story of our lives. To listen to it is to remember who we truly are. Every scar, every ache, every breath carries a story. When we walk with the body, we cross the threshold into our true self. By attuning to its rhythms, we remember the life we were meant to live.
I accompany highly sensitive individuals, artists, leaders, and visionaries as they navigate moments of deep transformation. My work weaves together practical psychological support with soul-centered exploration, offering a space for healing, insight, and meaningful connection. I help people attune—to the wisdom of their bodies, the guidance hidden in dreams, the meaning in everyday interactions, and the subtle messages of the living Earth.
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 Therapy
Yoga (8-limbed path)
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, 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