“How might your life have been different if there had been a place for you to go when your life was difficult and you felt utterly alone…a place of safety and comfort.”
—Judith Duerk
psychotherapy
Somatic - Attuned - Integrative
We have entered into a time where we remember that we are not problems to be solved or fixed, but rather mysteries to be tenderly uncovered, nurtured, and explored. We can better honor and respect the complexities of being human by setting aside reductionistic and dualistic ways of thinking in favor of more expansive and innovative ones.
We may be a great fit to work together if you:
Consider yourself a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
Want to process trauma (T/t), traumatic grief and early core-wounds so you feel better equip to experience intense emotions like anxiety, grief, and anger/rage
Struggle with relationship or attachment challenges
Struggle with depression, anxiety, or life transitions
Have an Eating Disorder/Disordered Eating and/or body image issues
Know you benefit from working with a therapist that holds a relational and holistic lens
Suffer from chronic pain and are interested in mind/body practices for pain management
Want to acknowledge and address the emotional aspects of physical issues
*Services offered online and in-person
Learn what you can expect in a session, book a free consultation today.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung”
1:1 COACHING
1:1 Coaching sessions may be the right fit for you if:
You want to change your life by looking inward and attending to your internal experience rather than continuing to look externally
You feel called or are drawn to explore your connection to the subtle realms of spirit and consciousness—to deepen connection with the subtler parts of yourself
You want to learn subtle, energetic, and heart-based skills to understand and move beyond deep-rooted beliefs, that create emotional and physical stuckness and disturbance
You want support as you learn to trust the guidance you receive from your embodied Self
You want to learn techniques and practices that help you tap into these subtler realms
You are a provider and want coaching and consultation in order to bring somatic and embodied practices into your therapy office to help clients process trauma and or difficult emotions with greater ease and relationality
*Services offered online and in-person
“The bridge between spirit and matter is nature. Nature must be experienced through feeling. We are nature.”
Restorative Touch Sessions
Individually tailored Somatic Touch session. These sessions are informed by understanding the effects of the attachment system, developmental trauma, and pre-verbal trauma in the child. These often unattended to pre-verbal traumas have lasting impacts into adulthood, which is when we often start to pay attention. By understanding the neurochemistry of early trauma, and rebuilding developmental platforms through regulating touch and presence, clients begin to move from a high-cost-of-doing-life system, aka BURNOUT, to a more easeful and less stress-oriented system.
Touch is a beautiful bridge that gently reconnects the mind and body to the soul.
Sessions are informed by Advanced Somatic Trainings, Touch Training for Developmental Trauma, Polarity Therapy, and years of advanced massage and bodywork trainings.
*Services can be offered online or in-person. During online appointments, sessions are offer energetically through intent and presence. Please reach out if you would like resources or more information about virtual or “distant” touch sessions.
“how might your life be different, if there were a place for you to go, whenever you feel overwhelmed by the power of your feelings? If you could be received by women gathered in a circle and helped to witness your feelings…and to trust their truth
How might the lives of all of us be different?”
—Judith Duerk
MEET Leslie
Leslie
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist (LMBT), Experienced Yoga Teacher (E-RYT)
My work with clients is experiential and comes from a depth of understanding in Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Jungian Psychology, and the subtle emotional and energetic systems of our body. My practice integrates over twenty years of experience and training in mindy-body-soul modalities. I believe that we must treat individuals as whole beings, which includes more than physical or mental health alone but releasing stress and trauma from whole system: mind, body, and the subtler systems like our nervous system and biofield.
My commitment to integrative work—connecting mind, body, and soul—comes from a deep understanding of the complexities and beauty of an embodied approach to the human experience.