Psychotherapy

In the atmosphere of safety and trust, assisting clients into their present-moment somatic experience provides the needed portal for clients to develop awareness of their unique experience which facilitates whatever change or next step needs to occur.  As your guide, Leslie maintains her own Mindfulness and Self-Compassion practice as well as an ongoing commitment to her personal growth and healing.

Leslie offers compassionate support for late-diagnosed Autistic Women who are finally beginning to understand themselves in new ways. Many spent decades masking their sensitivity and strength, often misjudged, dismissed, or misunderstood. The result is exhaustion, loneliness, and a longing to live more authentically. Leslie is skilled in helping people untangle lifelong patterns of self-doubt, rebuild self-trust, and begin to feel at home in their own bodies and lives.

Services Provided

Hakomi
Therapy

Hakomi helps people change “core material.”  Core material is composed of memories, images, beliefs, neural patterns and deeply held emotional dispositions. It shapes the styles, habits, behaviors, perceptions and attitudes that define us as individuals. Typically, it exerts its influence unconsciously, by organizing our responses to the major themes of life: safety, belonging, support, power, freedom, control, responsibility, love, appreciation, sexuality, spirituality, etc. Some of this material supports our being who we wish to be, while some of it, learned in response to acute and chronic stress, continues to limit us. Hakomi allows the client to distinguish between the two, and to willingly change material that restricts his or her wholeness.

Sensorimotor
Psychotherapy

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (SP) is a complete treatment modality to heal trauma and attachment issues. SP welcomes the body as an integral source of information for processing past experiences relating to upsetting or traumatic events and developmental wounds. SP incorporates the physical and sensory experience, as well as thoughts and emotions, as part of the person’s complete experience of both the trauma itself and the process of healing. SP seeks to restore a person’s ability to process information without being triggered by past experience.  The ability to self-regulate an often chronically dysregulated nervous system is learned in the process.

Pastoral
Counseling

Pastoral counseling is a form of psychotherapy that uses spiritual resources as well as psychological understanding for healing and growth. Certified pastoral counselors are licensed mental health professionals who have also had in-depth religious and/or theological education or training. Clinical Services are non-sectarian and respect the spiritual commitments, theological perspectives and religious traditions of those who seek assistance without imposing counselor beliefs onto the client. The central theme in pastoral counseling is an awareness of the spiritual dimension in human wholeness. Crises and transitions are addressed in terms such as faith, meaning, purpose, and direction, as well as in psychotherapeutic terms.

Treatment Specialties

LIFE TRANSITIONS AND SPIRITUAL/EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

Supporting clients as they are facing challenging life transitions such as loss of a loved one, “empty nest,” menopause, grief and bereavement, divorce, job loss, or career change, and the life-changing impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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Adult Autistic Women

Finely tuned empathy, support, and education intended to uniquely meet the psychotherapy needs of the First and/or Late diagnosed Adult Autistic Woman. Therapy addresses and facilitates the development of self-compassion and awareness needed to elevate self-esteem, learn how to cope, and heal issues such as grief, trauma, and loneliness while validating that Autism is a lifelong condition that profoundly shapes lives.
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CLINICAL ISSUES

Individualized therapy designed to offer relief from symptoms of clinical diagnoses such as Bipolar, Depression, Anxiety, and Personality disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder.
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SUBSTANCE ABUSE - ADDICTION - DUAL DIAGNOSIS

Helping clients deal with the effects of addiction to substances and/or process addictions, including alcohol and drug addiction and other self-limiting addictive behaviors. Expertise in working with clients suffering from both mental illness and a comorbid substance abuse problem which is referred to as “dual diagnosis.”
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TRAUMA and STRESS

Identifying and holistically healing traumatic memory including attachment and childhood/developmental trauma. Offering coping skills and practical biofeedback interventions to calm a dysregulated nervous system. Supporting the development of mindfulness, self-compassion, emotional-regulation and distress tolerance skills.
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common questions

 

The Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy, a body-centered approach developed by Ron Kurtz, combines somatic awareness with experiential techniques to promote psychological growth and transformation.
Our practice is out-of-network with insurance companies. We will submit claims for you but payment is required at time of service. Some clinicians offer reduced fees as well as payment plans. Our clinicians are very goal and relationally focused. Our fees match the experience you will receive. (Please note: We are unable to file insurance claims if you are receiving services at a reduced fee. Information from the United States Government Accountability Office.)

Weekly sessions are recommended to begin therapy.

Yes, what we discuss in session is held in strict Confidence.

Please Note,

as mandated by law, through “duties to warn,” to breach confidentiality if I discover:

  1.  You are threatening self-harm or suicide;
  2.  You are threatening to harm another or homicide;  
  3.  A child has been or is being abused; and
  4.  A vulnerable adult has been or is being abused.

Finally, should you wish information from therapy released to someone (e.g., an attorney, a physician, Workman’s Compensation, etc.), I can do so only if you sign a Release of Information, ROI.

Here’s a great article to determine if therapy and its benefits are a good fit

Psychotherapy can be short-term (a few sessions), dealing with immediate issues, or long-term (months or years), dealing with longstanding and complex issues. The goals of treatment and arrangements for how often and how long to meet are planned jointly by the patient and therapist. 

2300-B Randolph Rd
Charlotte, NC 28207
To schedule appointments visit My Booking Page
  • (704) 247-1803

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