Therapist • Podcast Coach • Speaker

I help healers find their voice and find a platform to share it.

I'm Leslie Ellen Mathews. Licensed therapist, podcast coach, speaker, and host of Pulling Threads. I've spent my career helping people navigate the hardest transitions of their lives. Then I found myself inside one of my own— and it changed everything I thought I knew about voice, visibility, and what it means to show up.

THE FULL STORY

I spent years staying quiet while visualizing myself initiating and informing.

As a therapist, I am the person in the room who listens. I help clients navigate divorce, identity shifts, grief, and the terrifying process of starting over. I am good at it, but I was almost completely invisible outside of my practice. I had real expertise, a genuine desire to help more people, and almost no platform to do it from. Sound familiar?

Then I found myself living the story I'd been helping others through.

Going through my own divorce cracked something open. I started podcasting almost by accident, as a way to process out loud, to find community, to make sense of what I was moving through. What I discovered on the other side surprised me entirely.

Podcasting didn't just give me a platform. It made me a better therapist. A clearer thinker. A more grounded version of myself. And it connected me to a community of people I never would have found behind the walls of a private practice.

That experience became the foundation of everything I teach.

I built Press Record: a podcast launch cohort for therapists and coaches, because I needed something like it and it didn't exist. I built Get Found because I kept watching brilliant practitioners stay invisible. I started speaking because the conversations happening in conference rooms and on podcasts needed the perspective of someone who has both the clinical training and the lived experience.

I know what it means to be the expert in the room who has no idea how to be heard beyond it. And I know exactly what it takes to change that.

What I believe.

Visibility isn't just a marketing problem. It's a nervous system problem. Most therapists and coaches aren't staying quiet because they don't have anything to say. They're staying quiet because showing up feels unsafe. My work is rooted in helping practitioners build the platform and the inner infrastructure to be heard without shutting down.

The world has a crisis of invisible expertise. Healers who are doing profound, life-changing work that almost no one knows about. I'm here to change that. One voice at a time.

TRAINING & CREDENTIALS

The clinical foundation behind the work.

  • Therapist (Clinical Social Worker)

  • EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) trained

  • Host of Pulling Threads Podcast

  • Founder of Press Record Podcast Launch Cohort for Therapists + Coaches

  • Founder of The Loom Life, a divorce coaching and community platform

  • Photographer

  • Former Health Care Attorney

  • Former Brain Injury Speech Language Pathologist

What People Are Saying

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

I finished Press Record on March 11 and have now published 2 podcast episodes with several ready to publish in the upcoming weeks. I could never have made this much progress toward my goal without Leslie and her program.

Melissa Good
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I think my overall experience with Press Record helped me strengthen my confidence, my voice and direction. The course was really good for what I needed.

Dr. Tab
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Before Press Record, I had been 'about to start a podcast' for two years. Leslie made it feel doable not just technically, but emotionally. I launched six weeks after the cohort ended and have not looked back.

Anonymous
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Leslie has this rare ability to see what you're holding back and gently, persistently help you find the courage to share it. The way she talks about voice and platform changed the way I think about my own work.

Anonymous
★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Having Leslie on the podcast was one of our most watched episodes. She is a natural storyteller who makes every listener feel like she is talking directly to them. Would book her again without hesitation.

Anonymous

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