ABOUT LEDA
I’ve produced everything from feature documentaries, TV shows, and commercials to video games, websites, festivals, art installations, immersive experiences, experimental films, interactive media, social media campaigns, podcasts, and impact-driven marketing. I love spreadsheets, and I’m good with budgets. My career as a creative, line, and executive producer has been long, exciting, and successful. I’ve run my own production company, led a communications agency, and helped manage production-related businesses.
But I’ve always had a deeper calling—to help people heal. My grandmother was a psychiatrist, and I admired how she transformed lives. While I majored in film, I also studied Buddhist psychology, critical theory, and quantum mechanics. I was a doula at SF General Hospital and worked as a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic. I’ve completed two yoga teacher trainings (Yoga Works and It’s Yoga), attended 10-day vipassana retreats, and produced large-scale art events for the LA County Department of Mental Health, focused on reducing stigma. I’ve also worked with The California Endowment, producing healing art activations, designed to uplift the voices of young people of color across California.
But what I believe qualifies me most to walk beside you is that I’ve climbed my own inner mountains made of attachment issues, codependency, heartbreak, CPTSD from relational trauma, and burnout. Through talk therapy, EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, deep friendships, and many other modalities, I’ve found healing. I know firsthand how vital support is in overcoming life’s challenges, there have been many guides who have held my hand along the way and now, I want to pay it forward.
In 2019, I completed the UCLA Social Emotional Arts and Healing Certification and am almost done with a Master’s in Psychology. I’m excited to put everything I’ve learned into practice to help others find their way.
HOW TO HEAL
Healing unfolds in a spiral. It revisits the same themes again and again—but each time with deeper awareness, greater capacity, and a wider field of understanding. It’s not about completion. It’s about integration.
At the heart of this process is relationship: with others, yes—but also with the many parts of yourself. The protector, the pleaser, the part that shuts down, the part that still hopes. These parts carry the imprint of past experience, shaped by what was available to us and what wasn’t.
We know from developmental research that early emotional attunement shapes the architecture of the nervous system. When caregivers miss or misread our signals—especially consistently—it changes how we learn to relate. Even in families that felt loving, we may have adapted by minimizing our needs or performing roles that won us connection at the cost of authenticity. Over time, those adaptations can harden into identity.
Healing involves returning to those early strategies with clarity and compassion—not to undo them, but to loosen their grip. To offer the kind of attention that may have been missing the first time around.
My role is to attune to you and help you develop the inner scaffolding to attune to yourself—across emotional states, protective patterns, and shifting seasons of life.
Hurt people hurt people. Healed people heal people. Emotional pain doesn’t disappear. It transmits—through relationships, families, institutions, and cultures. The decision to interrupt that cycle is both personal and political. It starts by noticing the moment an old pathway lights up in your mind—and choosing, with care and intention, a different response. This isn’t a one-time choice. It’s a practice. One that becomes possible through connection, repetition, and support.
Patience and kindness toward all aspects of yourself is one of the first, most radical acts of love you can offer the parts of yourself that suffer.
Sympathetic Magic
I’m developing a series of installations and objects that serve as symbolic metaphors for the process of change or healing. I think of it as sympathetic magic. These objects are designed to make the experience of growth more concrete. To find out more about this work go to LedaLeda.com
