"It is said that it is more important to find the right therapist rather than the right treatment modality, and this certainly rings true with Leslee.
Informed by Core Energetics' wholistic and much needed understanding of the psyche's own healing capacity, Leslee treated me above all as a suffering human being capable of gaining insight and growing, rather than as a defective brain computer that required repressant medication.
Guided by her many years of experience, and her profound capacity to unjudgementally hold space for your most difficult memories, her compassionate insight "cured" me of the notion that there was something "wrong" with me, and allowed me to confront Self in the most authentic and challenging manner possible. This is a gift that cannot be quantified, and I am grateful for sharing my "journey" with her as she prefers to call it, rather than "treatment" or the myriad ways we stigmatise the soul's cry for help."
"Leslee came into my life when I really needed to start telling myself the truth about things. I was living my life from a place of old patterns and belief systems and she helped me challenge these and tackle them head on so that I could create room for the life changing outcomes that followed afterwards. Thank you so much for your support Leslee and for helping me become a better man and for learning to trust not only in myself but in what life has to offer too".
"I’ve always felt safe and supported in my journey of healing, not only have I felt a range of unexpected emotions but I’ve gained a lot of insight about myself working with Leslee.
I definitely recommend Leslee in helping anyone with their healing journey. There’s been degrees of self acceptance, tears, hitting of pillows and even stomping! But also laughter and warmth as well.
She is also very accommodating with my work schedule for which I travel a lot. Skype sessions have been had in cars and under trees in the outback! Her flexibility with my environment and schedule makes this healing journey easier to do which can be difficult for a constant traveler".
"Leslee has offered me incredible help and amazing support in a very difficult time in my life. It was when I couldn’t get myself our of my own misery anymore when she was there for me and guided me step by step back to a better place. Since working with Leslee I have not just turned my life around but I have also learned so much about myself and grown as a person so that I can now face certain challenges in my life with a greater knowledge and therefor be more resilient. Leslee is very kind, understanding and empathetic and has always the best interest for you at heart. Even thought it was a very dark time in my life, I am very grateful that I have crossed paths with her."
"Leslee’s work is amazing. She is a beautiful soul full of compassion and an extraordinary talent in her field of work. The sessions we did together completely changed my life and the way I do life. It helped me leave behind the things that no longer served me and step fully into myself and my power. It is life changing work facilitated by a loving talented person."
"Leslee is compassionately and skillfully guiding me on my own adventure. For the first time in my life, I am beginning to see myself as a valued member of society with things to offer. I had previously tried so hard to fit in and failed dismally. Now I am starting to feel better about myself and taking up opportunities I never would have in the past.
Sometimes the sessions have been challenging, but I have always felt that Leslee has managed to make me feel safe in spite of having my true self so exposed. Her gift in managing this has allowed me to begin moving forward again and feel better about myself than I have in a long time.
I encourage you to begin your own adventure."
"I found Leslee to be uncannily accurate in her observations! Her honesty was confronting at times - but that made my husband and I communicate better. I feel I can trust Leslee and in turn also be totally honest with her.
What once seemed insurmountable problems now no longer have the power over us that they once did. My relationship with my husband is getting back to what it once was and we are enjoying life together again."
Sometimes the sessions have been challenging, but I have always felt that Leslee has managed to make me feel safe in spite of having my true self so exposed. Her gift in managing this has allowed me to begin moving forward again and feel better about myself than I have in a long time.
I encourage you to begin your own adventure."
"I have been to a few counselors previously that had ended with no positive outcomes, only negative ones. A close friend of mine suggested that I try Core Energetics. Eventually I arrived at Leslee's doorstep - somewhat cautious and somewhat skeptical at first.
From my previous experiences, I had little confidence on Leslee's ability to achieve any sort of positive outcome. But as I slowly got to know her, things changed.
I understood very little of what she was doing at first, and to be honest, I can't really say that I understand a great deal more now than I did then. But, what I do understand is results.
Leslee has gone down paths that nobody else has ever trodden with me, she has helped me to gain a very profound awareness and understanding of myself that I never had before.
These in turn have resulted in some of the most significantly positive changes in my life that I have ever experienced. These changes in turn have made a huge impact on my personal life and my overall level of happiness and for that, I will be forever grateful to Leslee."
What once seemed insurmountable problems now no longer have the power over us that they once did. My relationship with my husband is getting back to what it once was and we are enjoying life together again."
Sometimes the sessions have been challenging, but I have always felt that Leslee has managed to make me feel safe in spite of having my true self so exposed. Her gift in managing this has allowed me to begin moving forward again and feel better about myself than I have in a long time.
I encourage you to begin your own adventure."
"Leslee is a delight to work with. While learning about myself through her observations and my self perception which she strongly facilitates, she brings the greatest sense of humor to her work. Even my most seemingly serious issue melts into lightheartedness and is warmed by Leslee's loving energetic embrace as I find myself laughing with her about mole hills I thought were mountains. She really is very funny! She will make you laugh, but more importantly, make you smile in a way that never goes away."
I've experienced dozens of psychologists over my many years of receiving therapy and treatment. It's been 14 years since I started receiving treatment at the age of 14.
I would find I would go to a therapist and be able to speak how I felt or what was on my "mind" even become emotional in the session. But always felt flat and lost after a session. I also felt as though I NEEDED that professional to "get me by" and if I didn't i would have a really hard time.
Leslees approach is very different, she creates a SAFE space and holds you there to feel free to release emotions that are keeping you from functionally optimally in life with relationships, work and general life. I recommend this style of therapy over any other style and Leslee is an amazing experienced Practitioner with a beautiful heart. 100% would recommend everyone to see Leslee.
At a difficult time in my life Leslee was just the person I needed to come across ... Being a 30 yr old male, it’s not easy to open up. She provided a professional, non-judgemental environment where I could let my feelings fly. Leslee helped me sort through a mess of emotions and put me on a road to happiness.
I continue to see Leslee when I need to...
Leslee is an extraordinary human being, woman, and healer.
She has been and continues to be a guided trusted light in pivotal moments of my life journey.
Held in sacred space, I have traveled into the deep terrain of life experiences, extracting the wisdom, the healing,
uncovering the gold of life experiences and the gift of returning to wholeness.
Thank you Leslee, for all who work with you are those that are truly blessed.
I cannot thank Leslee enough for helping me with where I am today. I came into contact at just the right time. I was lost, empty and unknowingly very much unhappy with who I had become and where I was at in my life. Leslee made me feel incredibly safe and comfortable from the beginning and I completely trusted her with opening up and expressing my true emotions. Her work is incredible and I truely can’t thank her enough. Her advice and methods of healing are so I beneficial. I’ve exposed and learnt so much about myself and I continue to see her still as I simply enjoy having her support guidance as I still work on myself. Best money I’ve ever spent.
I got there, I'm happy with this. Hope you are also
I was facing many issues when I turned to Leslee Hughes for help. On and off I have suffered from depression since my early twenties. At sixty-eight I was facing life alone with the recent death of my partner and my retirement from a job of nearly thirty years. I felt anxious about where my life was going and where it would lead me in the future. I had been a very unhappy person in my twenties and early thirties up until my first marriage and the birth of my two children. I was fearful of going back into that state of severe depression. I had many issues on my plate -- grief over my recent loss, long-term uncertainty over my body having had polio as a child and prostate cancer in my mid fifties, the tendency to depression that undoubtedly has a connection to my hospitalisation as age three. I was already seeing a doctor for the medical side of depression but wanted to do more. What I was seeking was not so much strategies for survival as ways to live my life to the very best, to embrace the new phase of life as being an elder, a concept Leslee and I discussed several times.
Leslee's body-focussed therapy using a range of techniques has helped me recognise the extent to which childhood experiences and my relationships with my parents needed working on for me to grow into being an elder. By working through feelings and sensations, by tapping into the body's own capacity to heal itself, I have been able to a great extent to shift my mood so that I can now see the positives in my situation and be better equipped to be there for others. Over the course of just over a year I can sense that a real shift has taken place in me. Rather than repeating old destructive patterns I now feel much more attuned to the present. I am very grateful to Leslee for all the help she has given me in this journey of transition.