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 name your past, your patterns, your triggers with real clarity. And yet the clench in your jaw, the weight in your heart, the ache in your hips—they stay.
While insight lives in the mind, survival lives in the body. For many of us, a safe space to be held never felt reliably there. So the body learned to carry everything alone.
Our work goes deeper than talking about the pain. Whether we meet in my Boulder office or by telehealth across Colorado and North Carolina, we'll listen to the language of your body, gently unwind the old survival patterns, and make room for a genuine, felt sense of ease and safety to take root.
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.
You spend your life caring, tending, holding space—creating, leading, showing up. Over time, that can quietly tip into burnout: you're still functioning, but running on empty, disconnected 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 your mind and body without fully settling
Experience depression that feels less like sadness, 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 integrate Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Relational Therapy to help you inhabit your life more fully. I also use Brainspotting — a precise 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, 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 it's like to be fluent in your own patterns and still feel stuck inside them. That gap between knowing and feeling is exactly where we can work together. I bring clinical training, bodywork expertise, years of experiential knowledge, and a deep belief that learning to receive isn't a soft goal or side effect. It's the main medicine. A nervous system that knows how to take something in—comfort, support, nourishment, rest—is a nervous system that's actually healthy. That's what we're 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.