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Sharing Wisdom in Colours

Therapy and Counselling

Hello and welcome to my website!

I’m just a human being available to support you in the process of reconnecting to your Self and accompany you in remembering the colours of your Soul.

I work with different therapeutic methods, especially Inner child therapy, Essence work and Bodywork, yet I mostly rely on my personal experience, on intuition and on spontaneous creativity. I also use colours and art (drawing, painting, clay) as a tool to express and give form to what we encounter in the process. I especially love to encourage the richness of human’s expression and to support the reconnection to each person’s incredible creative potential.

Sheree Bliss Tilsley, A medicine woman’s prayer

Why start a therapy process?

A deep process can help us to:

Know ourselves better, grow in awareness
Understand the root of our compulsive behaviours
Connect to our inner child and start to re-parent ourselves
Become more present and more grounded
Reconnect to our true Self
Find meaning, directions and start manifesting our potential

There are may valuable therapeutic techniques, tools and approches, but the ultimate healing is simply love, Self-love. The main goal of a therapy process is just to help us to love ourselves, to accept ourselves, to forgive ourselves and to fully embrace our authenticity. When we reconnect to our authenticity and when we remember who we are beyond the trauma and the conditioning, we find out that are already whole, unbroken.

"Every separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity"

Lao Tzu

What you can find on this website

This site is finally a quite intimate space where I share my thoughts, my vision, my ideas and creations, all linked to my personal process and to my journey (more material will be added gradually).

In the section Therapy I talk about my own way of working with people, I describe my understanding around processes of healing and share some personal discoveries and explorations.
In the section Art you can find some of my paintings and poems. Painting and writing are a way to translate in colours, shapes and words the richness of our inner world. Art is a channel that makes the invisible visible. Sometimes the inner world is so full that finding a channel to express what is boiling inside (it could be the greatest bliss or the greatest turmoil) is an existential necessity.
In the section Thoughts you will find some writings that describe my understanding of the human psyche, of consciousness and the Self, and general ideas about the structure of Reality.
In Projects I share creative ideas and inspirations around the vision of living in a pacified world. I invite you to share with me (contact form) your own ideas.

By sharing my understanding of the Self, but also my doubts and my struggles I wish to bring you inspiration, hope and strengths, to keep walking on the path of self-discovery and have faith in the process.

Why colours?

I like to use colours and shapes to talk about the invisible, to describe emotions, feelings and the experience of one’s Soul (essential experiences). It is a simple and very accessible way to express visually something that is intangible.

The human Soul is composed of subtle perfect qualities that were described by the philosopher Plato, the “Platonic forms”. These are divine and immuable Soul qualities such as joy, vitality, love, compassion, peace, courage, solidity, true power, steadfastness, creativity, imagination, playfulness, etc. Innate human qualities that children are naturally connected to, and that we often disconnect from, as we grow up. The Soul qualities and other inner experiences can be expressed through colours and shapes. We also often find a clear correspondence between the perception of a particular Soul aspect and the colour associated to it. In a therapeutic process it is often through visiting the wound that we can reconnect to our personal qualities and colours. The wound represents the moment of the disconnection and is therefore the door for the reconnection.

"The wound is where the light enters".

Rumi

Deep blue represents the immensity of the ocean and is a symbol of freedom and peace. It is the drop returning to the source, the ultimate let go.

Gold is the nectar of love, the sweet honey that melts all sharpness and rough edges. Gold is divine motherly love, the ultimate merging and union in love

When deep blue and gold unite, we feel so free, so spacious, yet so close and so intimate at the same time. It is the union of love and freedom

About me

I was born in a small village in the mountains of the Italian part of Switzerland, yet I have always loved and preferred to be by the sea, probably because the vastness, wildness and depths of the ocean has since forever been a mirror for my Soul. Since a child I have both a rebellious spirit and a deep call for the divine. My rebel side has brought me to understand and to question the current state of the world, by engaging in political and social sciences studies (University of Lausanne and Geneva). Yet soon I understood that knowing (and healing) oneself was the only way to really know (and heal) the world, so I began to explore new fields such as meditation, jungian psychology, buddhism, non-dualism, etc. In my late twenties l settled in Greece and started a deep psychotherapeutic process, coupled with psychotherapy studies at the EPI (Institute for Essential Psychotherapy). This process allowed me to have a more clear understanding of the cosmology of the Self, even thought once we dive in, we find out that we can never truly know it all because there is no limit to the depths and mysteries of the inner world.

Since 2016 I live in Athens (Greece) where my praxis is currently based, I regularly travel to Lugano (Switzerland) for seminars and private sessions.

My way of working with people is greatly influenced by the incredible knowledge received during the studies at the EPI (which combine psychology and spiritual wisdom) but is primarly based on my own personal experience of healing. I have learned the most by facing my own demons and embarking on the journey we call “dark night of the Soul”. Since my teenage years I have been facing many inner struggles such as social paranoia, anxiety and later insomnia. Each time I found the courage to transcend the inner hell and face the abyss, I have reclaimed another piece of my Soul. At some point in the journey, the Soul becomes the main guiding force in someone’s life, then the ego loosen its grip and starts serving the Soul.

You are welcome to contact me if you feel the call to start the journey of reclaiming the colours of your Soul and remembering who you truly are, the journey of the courageous one.

About Greece

Greece (I call her mama Greece) has been, and still is for me, the ultimate place of healing. Since I arrived in 2016 she has given me absolutely everything I needed in order to heal: love, protection, wisdom, beauty, connection to the divine, friends, celebration and dance, light and sun, holy waters and purification, joy, aliveness, fullness of life, everything! I still thank Greece and Athens every day, even in the midst of the chaos of the city, for being so generous and loving to me. I love you so much!

This country is full of magic and surprises! In the next years I plan to visit and discover new places (both in the mainland and in the islands) that holds a special energy: rivers, forests and seasides. My intent is, in the future, to organise healing retreats in those places and to connect together to both nature and to ourselves. The idea is that those groups will include a part of physical effort, hiking, movement and sports; while the other part will be dedicated to therapy, sharing, group processing and expression of feelings.

Testimonials

Leela, was giving me a lot of support and comfort working with my Inner Child. She is actually being a loving, caring and embracing adult/parent, which Is needed in this beautiful process. I find Leela to have a unique talent, in the matter of feeling her client, and making a very safe and trustful space for you to discover yourself. I felt that it was safe for me to feel all the feelings coming up, during the process. She also have a positive authority about her, that makes you open for her guidance. I am grateful. Thank you Leela

Maiken

Leela is such a beautiful companion full of care and appreciation for the connection with the inner child. She guided me to enrich my relationship with this beautiful part of myself, other times terrified and other with so much power and wisdom. This relationship with the inner child, with myself, brings more and more intimacy, trust and growth in the most beautiful way in my life. Thank you so much Leela

Lydia

"Thanks to my Inner Child therapy with Leela, I have gained a great deal of understanding on how the dynamics in my family of birth, and my role therein, has slowly shaped the habitual patterns of my behaviour. Leela provides a space for the growing of understanding as well as the holding of painful and difficult feelings and experiences in an atmosphere of acceptance and lightness. Leela is a sincere person, who has worked, and is working with great integrity on the finding of self-knowledge. She is not a person 'who knows' and acts from such a vain place. She is someone who wants to know, and will never arrive at some dogma. Her searching quality gives her the necessary depth to be a very good therapist. It makes it easy to trust her, and this trust is of such a level, that the very trust itself is able to function as the initiator of a process of healing and integration. By following therapy with Leela, I have become a more integrated and whole person than I was before."

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