Leslie Karen Sann, MA, LCPC

My life is dedicated to guiding people in transforming their lives by adopting a practical spiritual approach to living while learning to live by design rather than by default. I support my clients in developing loving, self-affirming, behaviors and attitudes which call forward their most authentic self. The result: the experience of joy and enthusiasm that comes when you are living the truth of your heart. It is an honor and a privilege for me to serve in this way.

“The soul's greatest joy is in discovering itself

and in helping others to achieve the same goal.”

Paramhansa Yogananda,

author of the classic, Autobiography of a Yogi

Leslie Karen Sann, MA, LCPC

An innovative and inspired counselor, educator and coach for more than 25 years, Leslie uses her gifts to awaken possibility, authenticity and joy. She has been helping individuals and couples resolve problems and achieve happiness since 1986.

Leslie is a transpersonal Board Certified Professional Counselor and Certified Coach in private practice in Geneva, and Chicago, IL, specializing in using the patterns of personality and ego to awaken spiritually.

A long term proponent of positive psychology which focuses on joy, resiliency and strengths, Leslie originally began practicing in 1986 as a joyologist. She has supported thousands of people, just like you, create greater harmony and fulfillment while learning to embody their gifts fully and offer their love and their gifts to the world.

As a counselor, educator and coach, Leslie brings to her work the spirit of aliveness, light-hearted wisdom, creativity and discovery. Her approach draws from more than thirty years of study in traditional and nontraditional programs in the art of coaching, positive psychology, hypnosis, ontological design, and communication, as well as more than thirty five years of personal spiritual practice.

Working with Leslie is a deep, enriching, and potentially life changing experience. Her calm, empathy, acceptance, and honesty, create a safe place for clients to work at deep levels. Her style is affirming and validating.

Rich with experience, at the core of her work is Leslie’s intention to support her clients in finding their way to living a life of greater joy, authenticity and fulfillment.

Leslie is a Board Certified Professional Counselor certified with the American Psychotherapy Assoc. She has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Santa Monica, with an emphasis in Spiritual Psychology. She also has a Master's of Theology in Practical Spirituality and she received her Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University. She is an experienced licensed clinician, who in addition to ongoing professional training, has completed two intensive training programs in coaching and is a certified ontological coach.

Over the past twenty five plus years she has studied with numerous people, such as, Gay and Katie Hendricks, Drs. Ron and Mary Hulnick, John Gottman, Michele Weiner-Davis, Eli-Jaxon Bear, Klaus Boettcher, John-Roger, Gangaji, David Deida, Jean Houston, and has also participated in the Hoffman Quadrinity Process.

She is available for personal and professional counseling, in person or on the phone, as well as seminar and workshop presentations.

Meet Kelsi

Kelsi, a 14-year-old black Labrador Retriever, is a certified therapy dog and Leslie's co-therapist. She accompanies Leslie to work

most days, and is excited to do her job of greeting and loving Leslie's clients. Kelsi was certified by Therapy Dogs International (TDI) when she was just 16 months old.

With incredible patience and understanding, Leslie has an undeniable ability to zero-in on the real issue. No matter how I try to talk around something, she always manages to bring it back to the core and help me to understand, own and embrace what is really going on – or being taped. Not always pleasant, generally hard to face up to – but always honest, direct and done with a caring heart and delightful sense of humor. I have returned to Leslie often and she always helps me correct my course and get back on track. She’s the best!
Sharon Burge
sharonburge.com

I am amazed at how Leslie is way ahead of the way most people approach the change process. I have been using techniques and tools she gave me years ago that are just now being talked about as innovative and cutting edge.
Eileen Sutz
Business Owner
Allstate Insurance

I came to see Leslie after a breakup I found myself regretting. I was depressed and unmotivated, questioning my decision to let a woman go I had really loved. I was unhappy with my work and restless to find a place for my creative energy.
Leslie showed me how happiness is an inside job, how I am the one in charge of whether I am happy or not, and that it is not contingent on who is in my life, or what job I have, or if I have been signed by a record company or not.
Leslie empowered me to discover what I really want. As a result I feel a lot more powerful and confident and have been making consistent choices that support my happiness. I feel a tangible change in my ability to be happy, to set myself up to feel happy and satisfied with my life.
Because I am tending to my own well-being I am seeing possibilities that I couldn’t see before. I seem to be drawing things to me that put me in a position to get more of the things I want.
I feel a lot better in so many areas. I have a job I like expressing my creativity as a graphic designer. I have been promoting my band and we have been getting some very cool and high profiled gigs. I have been developing better relationships, including friendships with other men, connecting more authentically, having more fun.
In general I am doing what I want to do. I am good with me.
Gabriel Chapman
Musician, Graphic Designer
aboutagirlmusic.com

If you would like to read more testimonials, please send an email to
leslie@living-bydesign.com.

Thank you,

Contact: leslie@living-bydesign.com; (312) 409-0686; 18 S. Fifth St., Suite 201, Geneva, IL 60134

Offices in Geneva and Chicago, IL. Distance sessions are available.