Leslie is a graduate of the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology in NYC. She has been both a mental health counselor and career coach for 16 years and is currently in private practice in Providence, RI. Winner of the National Gradiva Award, for her student paper, “Career Dysphoria and the Working Wounded.” Public presentations: National Self Psychology Conference, Chicago 2011: “Treating the Working Wounded, ” Rhode Island Mental Health Counselors, “Expanding Empathy via Telephone Counseling,” Rhode Island Assn. of Psychoanalytic Psychologies, “Understanding and Treating the Working Wounded