Leigh Goins (she/her)

I specialize in trauma-informed therapy focused on attachment-trauma, including healing from PTSD, complex trauma, intergenerational and community/social trauma, and racial/sexual/gender/intersectional identity trauma. I am supportive of all identities and provide a safe space to explore all the parts of who you are. We work together to separate what happened to you from who you are so that you are able to see yourself for the amazing human that you already are!

I specialize in trauma-informed therapy and help people understand the roots of their experiences of trauma and the ways that the trauma continues to affect their lives. I work through an attachment and systemic lens with somatic-based trauma-focused narrative exposure therapy, and mindfulness-focused interventions.

I have experience working with LGBTQ+ issues, including couple's counseling, individual, coming-out, acceptance and identity work, family counseling and boundaries, PTSD and trauma work, substance-use and sex counseling, intergenerational and community trauma, aging concerns, greying rainbows, and coming-out later in life, racial/sexual/gender/intersectional identity formation, and nonbinary and trans affirming counseling.

I specialize in trauma-informed therapy and help people understand the roots of their experiences of trauma and the ways that the trauma continues to affect their lives. I work through an attachment and systemic lens with somatic-based trauma-focused narrative exposure therapy, and mindfulness-focused interventions.

I have experience working with LGBTQ+ issues, including couple's counseling, individual, coming-out, acceptance and identity work, family counseling and boundaries, PTSD and trauma work, substance-use and sex counseling, intergenerational and community trauma, aging concerns, greying rainbows, and coming-out later in life, racial/sexual/gender/intersectional identity formation, and nonbinary and trans affirming counseling.

I have experience working with LGBTQ+ issues, including couple's counseling, individual, coming-out, acceptance and identity work, family counseling and boundaries, PTSD and trauma work, substance-use and sex counseling, intergenerational and community trauma, aging concerns, greying rainbows, and coming-out later in life, racial/sexual/gender/intersectional identity formation, and nonbinary and trans affirming counseling.

I specialize in trauma-informed therapy and help people understand the roots of their experiences of trauma and the ways that the trauma continues to affect their lives. I work through an attachment and systemic lens with somatic-based trauma-focused narrative exposure therapy, and mindfulness-focused interventions.

As a trans person, it is my privilege to work with people who are experiencing gender identity issues or are already on the path to living authentically as their true selves. I am WPATH SOC8 trained and believe in continuing to train in and utilize evidence-based best practices. My goal is to hold space for your unique experiences and goals so that you can find the healthiest path toward the life that you have always wanted.

Each person views the world uniquely, using tools to understand the world that were passed down from those who came before us. My goal is to hold the space that will allow us to explore together what tools you already have so that you can leverage these to move you toward the path you desire to be on. Often we have connections and strengths that are unique to our culture and as a culturally sensitive counselor my goal is to honor these and travel with you toward the life you want.

We learn models for relationships very early in our lives. Attachment theory helps provide a foundation for understanding why our relationships often follow similar patterns. Once we recognize the pattern, we can begin to do things differently and seek out relationships that bring us support and joy. We can make choices to follow a path toward mutual help, love, appropriate openness, and safety and this will help us to begin to live authentically in our communities.