Why put your trust in working with me?

Here are 10 reasons to be happy you did.

Compassionate listening & inquiry that gently allows for the underlying issues to surface, bringing insights & new perspectives to the current problems or situation you’re struggling with.
Did you know the possibility exists to feel a lightness & ease return to your body as I listen to you with an open and compassionate heart?
Living and working in 4 countries for over 25 years has cultivated a depth of understanding & experience for cultural differences and respect for individual practices. Supportive, respectful, and non-judgemental of cultural, gender, and spiritual/religious orientations.
A heaviness filled with worry & fear can dissolve from within as you feel understood, heard, and safe.
If your expat lifestyle includes being part of the international school system, I know this world inside out. The highs and the lows. The intense pressure that comes with world class education. Together, let’s explore the path to empowerment, inner confidence, and deep resiliency.
With my guidance, through practicing mindful breathing and meditation techniques, greater awareness and clarity are often revealed that lights up a way on how to move forward.
In addition to formal psychological training, I use a variety of body-centered movement and energy therapies that strengthen the bodymind connection. Experience has shown me that an aware and connected body and mind are the fertile ground for transformation and healing to flourish.
Life can feel like a dammed up river. I’m here to help you release the stuck areas in your life & experience the river flowing again.
Having navigated through a medical system in another language and outside my home country, there is little I haven’t experienced while focused on saving my life. With an integrative approach (includes conventional, complementary, & lifestyle) to healing my cancer (and for any dis-ease), I am experienced in helping you to uncover the lifestyle factors that can support your ongoing healing and wellness.
I will share with you the self-compassionate path of knowing that you’re not alone in your suffering and there is a way through. A way of being kind & loving to yourself. A way to start manifesting the life within you that wants to be lived.

Hi, I’m Leslie Peake

Oftentimes in life you are looking for something greater than, bigger and more splendid than what lies right in front of you. While you are busy looking into the future, life is happening in this very moment.

My life has been guided by an inner drive to understand how to listen to my body wisdom and how this wise knowledge communicates with the mind.

Why is this connection of body-mind so important to health, happiness & a sense of wholeness?

What I have learned

Years of training in psychology and movement therapies have taught me that when the mind and body respect and listen to each other, an inner alignment happens and is reflected out in the world. Synchronicity between the inner and outer world begins to happen. The path of unification between mind-body-heart-spirit has been ignited.

The desire to awaken this elusive part of myself guided my education. I consciously searched for a degree that would resonate deeply inside. I discovered the Dance and Movement Therapy program at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. Starting this degree was the beginning of a life long educational journey spanning various disciplines.

Obtaining my Masters in Education in Counseling Psychology from The University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia was the ideal degree to compliment my undergrad. During this time, I developed numerous programs, a very successful one was Creative Career Choices for women on Vancouver Island. The development of this program set me on a path of career and educational counseling over the next 10 years.

Packing up and living abroad

Life changed in 2005 as a new chapter began. With a young family, we packed up and moved to the Middle East, marking the dawn of a long-lasting expat journey.

My life was full of raising my two children, counseling other people’s children and their families, traveling around the world, and finding ways to insert activities that gave me moments of peace. I found these quiet moments in teaching movement, yoga & mindfulness meditation.

How I work

My extensive knowledge of psychology, education and wellness has been cultivated over the past 25 years as I’ve continued to nurture my knowledge and experiences within these fields.

My training from Dance Movement Therapy and Counseling Psychology have always been the foundation of how I engage working with others. I believe the body holds all the wisdom and answers when one turns inwards and listens. By attuning to your bodymind, the potential to align with inner clarity, expanded awareness, and a greater energy that lies beyond the physical body becomes possible.

I offer a mixture of body-centered healing practices supported with proven therapies and energy psychology, specifically EFT or Emotional Freedom Technique to support your journey.

How change showed up in my life

I was woken up quite abruptly on the 31st of August 2016 when a cancer diagnosis was delivered to me.

Looking back now, I see this stage IV cancer diagnosis was a ‘gift.’ It cracked my world and my heart wide open.

This experience has taught me that anything is possible. I say ‘gifted’ because entering the world of cancer was a transformative life-altering experience. Cancer or any other event that completely disrupts your life can be your Hero’s Journey if you answer the call.

I answered. After five years, I am ready to come back and offer the insights and wisdom I learned along the way. I’m excited to share with you. I invite you to believe in the power of your body to heal, just like I do.

I believe in the power of my body to heal itself. Everyday, I am re-patterning my cells, my thinking, my attitudes, and my breathing into a transformed, healthy, flowing body of energy. I am continually grateful and blessed for this process of learning how to deeply attune my inner and outer quality of life.

Life has bigger plans for you when you’re ready to release old patterns, limiting beliefs, and open up to the greater possibilities that are waiting for you.