About Leigh Rosenberg (she/her), MSW, LGSW
My therapy practice is an expression of love, care, and faith in the possibility of growing and healing. In partnership, I aim to accompany clients in manifesting healing and discovering wholeness.
I feel deeply fortunate that my social work career has led to becoming a clinical social worker, honoring shifts in my life experience and capacity to support others. I earned my Masters in Social Work in 2000 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and worked for many years in social justice policy and organizing. I began a meditation practice in 2006 under the guidance of several well-respected Buddhist teachers. I later was invited to support others in deepening their own meditation practices. My own transformative experience as a therapy client led in 2021 to launching my clinical career. I remain rooted in my own journey of healing, regularly practicing the tools I use with clients.
Many identities inform my work, and here are a few: I identify as a cis-gendered woman, European-Jewish ancestrally and culturally, inspired by Buddhism, and racialized as white. I’m married to an immigrant from Asia, and throughout my adult life, I’ve had a commitment to social justice, healing to unlearn white supremacy patterns and to learn cultural humility. I also have had to navigate long-standing health conditions in my journey. I enjoy gardening (especially growing food), cooking, nature, time with loved ones, and am involved in several meditation communities.
With an LGSW license, I work under supervision of Tracy R. Williams, LICSW. I am licensed in Minnesota and Ohio.
In the Jewish teaching of Tikkun Olam – to heal, mend or repair a broken world – personal and societal wellness are understood as deeply intertwined. Emerging brain science acknowledges something similar: adaptive and traumatic patterns can be passed down inter-generationally, culturally, and in our bodies. As we tend our inner wounds and collective wounds and trauma, wellness can grow both inwardly and outwardly.
In addition to an interest in work with trauma, my approach is built on care and respect for the experiences and identities that make you who you are. Along with your personal and family history, identities such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, body type, economic status, age, immigration history, will be respected and included in our work – as can any type of spirituality – so you can bring your whole self to the deep work of therapy.
I believe that our bodies, minds and hearts, in relationship with others and our environment, hold keys to healing and thriving. Even when we are struggling, and don’t know how to feel better, there is a kernel of wholeness. In partnership with you, I am committed to supporting you in gradually discovering and living into greater balance.
Land and people acknowledgement. I wish to acknowledge, with humility, that I live and work on Native land occupied by settlers and stolen from the Dakota people, the Native caretakers of this land for millennia. Dakota, Anishnaabe, and other Native peoples, having been deeply wounded across generations, still live, work, love, create, and teach here. The material abundance of this place was also built on the backs of enslaved people carrying unspeakable trauma, and with the labor of immigrants. I commit to seeing how to be in an ever more accurate, honorable relationship with all of these histories and present day realities, both individually and collectively, including through my actions.
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