Hi, I’m Leanne
I’ve been a registered psychologist for 30 years and I’m also a certified art therapist and life coach. This work taught me how deeply family discord and early relational trauma reshapes identity and how often we’re left to manage the impacts of this alone. I am here for the orphans, the outcasts, the outsiders, the wounded warriors, all in a multi-dimensional way that creates support, education and safe gathering spaces.
Some lives are built in straight lines. Mine has been convoluted, shaped by storms, fracture, and the slow work of rebuilding. My work grew out of this journey through layers of adaptation and disconnection. It’s grounded in lived experience and attuned practice with those who are asking the same question I asked: How do I survive in a world that blames victims and denies our losses?
Being an adoptee in reunion with a lived experience of verbal, emotional and physical violence continues to impact and exacerbate my life experience, while at the same time giving me a level of understanding for those who have experienced attachment trauma, scapegoating and estrangement with all their life-altering consequences.
I’ve learned that integrating these experiences and creating a life that isn’t focused on survival requires a blend of support, reflection, creativity and self-attunement to shape your own rhythms and unfold the life that comes next. I also learned that a meaningful life is not built through pressure or reinvention, but through finding your own rhythms and creating your own map.
While grieving what is lost, we listen for the parts of ourselves that were once silenced but are still waiting in the wings. Through acknowledgment, curiosity and attuned creativity, we discover how the past can be carried without letting it author the life that remains. This is how I live now, and I’m here to help you do the same.