Leslie Stucky, BSN, RN
Healing Arts Practitioner
Santa Cruz CA
Each session is based in mindfulness, with a somatic focus. Weaving in the gentle touch techniques of CranioSacral, we reset the nervous system and increase the potential for change. Introducing breathwork, we provide an opportunity for emotions to surface and be tended to. Through the transformative tool of Internal Family Systems, we dive into the subconscious, befriending all the parts of you that carry the stories and beliefs that are driving the decisions of your life. Together these practices restore resilience and awaken clarity, curiosity and freedom.
I also guide clients through the process of preparing, facilitating, and integrating expanded states with Ketamine. Ketamine is a fast-acting transformational medicine. It can disrupt negative thinking and lift the symptoms of anxiety, depression, and other conditions within an hour. When anxiety and depression become the norm, it causes neurons in the brain to become stunted with fewer connections. Ketamine helps repair this damage by stimulating neuroplasticity- nourishing the brain and strengthening new connections between neurons. It normalizes activity in a part of the brain known as the default mode network to create healthier patterns. With proper integration, these changes can be long lasting, changing the course of ones life.
Over the last 12 years, I worked as a Registered Nurse in community health and quality improvement. I also embarked on my own healing journey, sparked by my desire to be courageously authentic in my expression and to deepen my relationships. I explored countless therapeutic modalities. I brought what I learned into my nursing practice and discovered two powerful things.
First, in my role as a nurse, I found it incredibly difficult to find the time with clients that felt necessary to co-create the change that people desire. This misalignment of purpose was creating an existential crisis within me.
Second, as a therapy client and self-growth nerd, I experienced the profound and sustained change that holistic and alternative methods of healing brought into my life.
These realizations made my new path overwhelmingly clear.
I decided to expand on my years in the medical field by weaving in my exploration of holistic health, alternative practices and the re-emerging therapeutic psychedelic movement. Through my range of personal healing experiences, I narrowed down a list of practices which had the most profound impact on my life and intentionally curated a nutrient-dense curriculum of trainings and mentorships. I dove in. After years of focused personal work and trainings with CranioSacral Therapy, Conscious Connected Breathwork, Internal Family Systems and most recently Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy - I now embody these practices. These modalities have helped shape the person I am today - a grounded, compassionate healer, skilled in listening and guiding others towards their most harmonious and loving Self.
2025 In-process: Hakomi Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy
2024: Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certified Practitioner
2023: Breathwork Bali Facilitated Breath Repatterining Practitioner Program
2023: IFS Institute Level One IFS training with Ann Sinko
2023: Sacred Space 50 hour course in ceremonial facilitation with Casa Kula
2022: IFSCA 16 week Comprehensive IFS Course with Derek Scott
2022: CranioSacral level one and level two courses with the Upledger Institute
2011: San Francisco State University Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Minor in Holistic Health
**I do NOT provide psychedelic medicines.
I will connect you with a local Nurse Practitioner who will complete a comprehensive psychologic assessment and medical evaluation to medically clear you to receive ketamine. She will tailer a prescription to meet your needs and send it to a local pharmacy for pick-up.
My rate is $140 per hour. Sliding Scale may be available for those in need, depending on spaces available.