Leslie Johannes is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Teaching Member of both Sandplay Therapists of America and the International Society for Sandplay Therapy. She practices in Bellevue, Washington, working with individual adults, couples, children, teen girls, and families.
Johannes is a founding member of Northwest Sandplay Therapists (NWST), helping to establish the sandplay therapy community in the Pacific Northwest. Her therapeutic framework combines a family systems approach with a depth psychology perspective.
She has published articles in the Journal of Sandplay Therapy, including work on Donald Kalsched's trauma theory and its relationship to sandplay practice, and offers consulting services to clinicians interested in sandplay therapy.
Specialties
Depth orientation
Jungian psychotherapist integrating family systems and depth psychology. Her engagement with Kalsched's trauma theory reflects a contemporary depth approach to understanding the protective and dissociative dimensions of the psyche in sandplay.