Leslie Karen Sann, MA, LCPC

An innovative and inspired counselor, educator and coach for almost 25 years, Leslie Karen Sann 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 Chicago, and Geneva, IL, specializing in using the patterns of personality and ego to awaken spiritually.

She is dedicated to serving the unfolding of true personal freedom and offers you an invitation to awaken your deepest inner wisdom, joy, and love.

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, 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, NLP, 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 almost twenty five years she has studied with numerous people, such as, Gay and Katie Hendricks, John Gottman, Eli-Jaxon Bear 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 13-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.