About Lesley

Professional Experience

Lesley has many years experience with counseling, family advocacy, and outreach. She is trained in systems theory and applies this in her extensive work with children and their families. Lesley is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Her specialty, ecotherapy approaches the natural world as guide and teacher and believes that it can mirror our psyches innate ability to move toward health and wholeness. Her work is the culmination of training in transpersonal psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Orinda , CA. and the apprenticeship training in wilderness rites of passage, earth-based healing practices and applied ecopsychology she completed in August of 2001. Lesley has both contributed articles, and edited professional journals in the field of psychology. She presents and holds workshops on Ecopsychology and Earth-based healing. Lesley believes that emotional and psychological health requires recognition of the transitions and cycles of all life.

On a Personal Note

Making my home in such areas as rural West Marin and now for the past few years in Anderson Valley, Mendocino County. I'm always observing and learning from nature. The ospreys show me where the salmon move from the ocean up the rivers to spawn. I delight at the hungry harbor seals who wait by the river mouth until the winter storms open it to the sea. I anticipate the growth of the wild flowers and become excited and awed at the sight of mother bear and her cub.