"As I've been healing, I've experienced joy."
Somatic therapy for people who’ve done the work — and still get triggered.
Breakthroughs in every single session
Gently, safely, and for real.
(Virtual nationwide • In person in Atlanta)
Relief that doesn’t fade
Inquiry Meditation (IM) is a body-based trauma-resolution modality that creates multiple breakthroughs in every session — gently, safely, and without force.
In every IM session:
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Multiple trauma-relief breakthroughs occur
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Each shift is gentle, joyous, and body-led
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Real-life changes begin within hours and days
Why?
Because we’re working at the root of the trigger instead of managing the reaction.
"As someone who has spent years protecting myself by numbing uncomfortable feelings, I have found Leslie's method of Inquiry Meditation to be safe, gentle and incredibly effective.
Leslie has an incredible spirit and energy which is both energizing and calming - it's hard to explain but you understand the minute you meet her. She is a gifted practitioner and a gift to my life."
--Carolyn L.
Why trauma responses don’t dissolve through regulation — and how IM resolves them
You still get triggered not because you haven’t healed enough — but because regulation doesn’t dissolve the protective impulse that creates the trigger in the first place.
What dissolves protection isn’t control — it’s contact.
Inquiry Meditation (IM) is a direct, body-based healing method built on one simple truth:
It is your gentle, real relationship with pain that heals it.
So instead of regulating, fixing, or managing your pain — your patterns, your triggers, your trauma — we meet it.
Directly. Kindly. Without forcing it to change.
And when the pain feels truly met — not controlled or overridden — the protection impulse finally relaxes.
That’s the turning point.
When the part of you that has been protecting you feels met rather than managed, it no longer needs to: brace • collapse • freeze • fawn • lash out • shut down • disappear
The nervous system reorganizes right there during the session.
Which is why clients don’t walk away saying:
“I got triggered but I used my tools.”
They say:
“I felt the trigger begin — and I could stay myself.”
Not because they worked harder.
But because the root of the trigger — the protective impulse itself — is healing — beginning in Session #1.
"Leslie is magic. Truly. Working on my relationship with myself, healing my inner critic, and regulating my emotions when distressed has been a long journey. I really mean it when I say that nothing has ever felt as impactful in healing my relationship with myself as my work with Leslie.
She has a way of getting me to see my inner parts, and growing a relationship with them. If you are familiar with internal family systems psychotherapy, Leslie is most definitely an IFS coach - even though she doesn't call herself that! Her intuition and wisdom radiate out and have helped me find my own intuition and wisdom in my body. I am so grateful."
Dr. Meenaxi P., psychologist
What happens in an IM session
This work is both deeply moving and extremely practical.
Either in person or via Zoom, we begin with whatever your body is presenting — tension, fear, shame, emotional pain, physical tightness, self-criticism, a pattern you can’t shake.
Whatever shows up is exactly what’s ready to be healed.
Step 1 — We notice the sensation.
We locate precisely where the pain is showing up in the body.
Step 2 — We establish relationship.
We don’t push it away or “try to calm it.” (And the body will bring up only the "just-right" amount and degree of sensation. You will feel relaxed and safe the entire time.)
We acknowledge the pain — sometimes with words as simple as:
“Hi. I feel you there.”
This is where the shift begins.
Step 3 — We deepen relationship.
We continue noticing with kindness and curiosity — no pressure, no outcome hunting.
Step 4 — The nervous system updates.
When your pain feels met, the protective impulse relaxes.
And when it relaxes, something unexpected often emerges:
A wiser, quieter presence beneath the pattern.
A younger part that finally feels seen.
A sensation of coming home to yourself — not conceptually, but physically.
This is how lasting change occurs.
Not after years of trying.
On contact — every single session.
"This was an incredibly powerful experience. It allowed me to process a lot of emotion and clearly view aspects about myself that I havent been able to see before. It felt inspiring, healing, made me feel confident, and less scared. Incredibly healing. Leslie is an angel."
Chandler K.
Who this work is for
IM is for people who can sense that:
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As helpful as regulation has been… there must be another layer.
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Something in me is asking for deeper contact, deeper truth.
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I’m ready for healing that feels good, not just tolerable.
IM is not radical healing.
It is direct healing, or deeply relational healing — healing that happens because the wound itself is finally met.
The process is simple enough to feel obvious once you experience it — and deep enough, and real enough, to quietly shift the architecture of your inner world.
"Each time, the process gets sweeter. Leslie helps me go deeper within and access more layers of myself.
It may sound strange, but each session becomes more pleasurable. I look forward to each one because I KNOW more goodness will be uncovered."
Ony D.
For the Quiet Yes Inside You
If you’re here, something in you may already be opening.
Because yes — there is Mystery here.
Not performance, not dramatics —but the quiet softness that dissolves what is not real...and reveals what is.
And what is real?
That you don’t have to push to heal.
And you don’t have to hurt to heal.
And it doesn’t have to take forever.
This work is for those who can feel that more love — more pleasure — more self — is waiting for them.
(It is indeed waiting for you.)
If something in you feels the resonance...
even a soft hum of yes...
you are most welcome to begin.