The Embodied Self

Somatic & Internal Family Systems Therapy

A practice of healing through relationship: to yourself, your body, and the world around you

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Having been on both side of the couch (or computer) as a client and therapist over the years, I’ve noticed a few subtle yet profoundly influential aspects of the therapeutic process:

  1. The therapist’s steady, attuned presence as well as experience

  2. A willingness to engage the whole person — mind, body, and deeper self

  3. The client’s commitment to showing up

As a therapist I bring a genuinely available, compassionate presence to our work together, alongside a depth of training and experience in modalities such as Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems.

Hi! I’m Leslie and I’m so glad you’re here

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"It's the relationship that heals"

-Irvin Yalom

I believe in the value of therapy during all walks of life.

Perhaps you're ready for help easing the pain you’ve been carrying, want guidance cultivating a more regulated, connected, and whole sense of self, or are unsure exactly what you need — let’ simply begin wherever you are.

You may benefit from this work if you:

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

  • Struggle with relationship or attachment patterns

  • Have experienced trauma or complex PTSD

  • Endure periods of anxiety, grief, or depression

  • Feel disconnected from your body or emotions

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

  • Desire more intimacy and connection in your relationships

  • Are human (humor is often part of the process)

i’d love to support you

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

  • Processing trauma (emotional, relational, and physical)

  • 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

  • Building nervous system regulation and health

  • Accessing 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

“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.”

-Marion Woodman

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 (EFT). I work with clients throughout Colorado and North Carolina. Our work together attends to the full-body, whole person experience—senses, emotions, imagination, action, meaning-making as well as more subtle aspects.

Learn more about Leslie here

About Leslie
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