Welcome to Empower Healing Counseling and Consultation!
At Empower Healing, it is our true honor to be a guide on the path of healing and health for a diverse group of children, adults, and families over the past fifteen years. We feel blessed and grateful to be able to continue to do this work today in our Empower Healing practice and with those seeking to find their true inner Self and reach personal goals.
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Animal Assisted Therapy (AAS) is a goal-directed intervention in which an animal meeting specific criteria (Harry an adopted golden doodle from the Johnson County Animal Shelter) is included in therapy to support healing.
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an integrative psychotherapy approach to assist individuals in fulfilling their fullest potential through an eight-phase protocol that supports moving maladaptively encoded information stored in the body into our adaptive healing system in order to recode this information and put it away properly.
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Somatic Experiencing (SE) is an approach that understands how stress and overwhelm are stored in the body and releases this shock energy which can be key to transforming PTSD and the scars of emotional and developmental/attachment trauma.
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Transforming Touch: An advanced approach to Somatic Experiencing, Transforming Touch offers a specific healing protocol utilizing somatic and/or intentional touch to move through developmental trauma that is nonverbal and held in the body.
We specialize in:
Animal Assisted Services
EMDR (Eye movement desensitization response)
Somatic Experiencing
Transforming Touch
We love including nature, animals, and experiential practices in our work.
Alison, LCSW and Owner, is an EMDR therapist, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and EMDR Basic Training Facilitator. We are passionate about utilizing the science of our brain and body to empower clients to reach inside and find their power to heal.
What people are saying after working with me:
“Alison Leslie is a rockstar in the EMDR world! She is a rare mix of intelligence and heart and is an expert in the field. I have worked with Alison in a variety of ways: as my EMDR certification supervisor, trainer at a 6 month CEU course, and as a consultant for difficult complex trauma cases. Alison is a wealth of information! I keep a notebook with me when consulting because I learn so much in an hour with her. I come away with fresh insights, ideas to move forward with difficult cases, books and articles to read, and with increased confidence. Her feedback is positive and helpful without feeling critical. It is a joy to work with her. Alison has been the most important influence on my development into a confident and effective EMDR provider and I am very thankful that I found her!”