Dr. Michael Leidecker - Clearwater Associates, llc

For over 20 years, I have been working therapeutically with a wide range of people presenting with a multi-layered list of complications. I came to this therapeutic profession after careers in international education and higher education students affairs. As the the Director of Field Operations with AFS Intercultural Programs and the Associate Dean of Students at Reed College, I solidified my understanding and skills sets for helping my clients lean into uncomfortable, pause & listen more before defining and allowing their heightened awareness to unleash perspective complementing their new and adaptive self managed lives. Allowing them, to calm their irrational thinking while regulating mood, to live well and fully in a perplexing and sometimes uncertain world. I strive to understand my clients’ concerns and worldviews within the context of societal, cultural, and contextual factors. Having lived and worked abroad for multiple years, I have always admired how people can leave their supportive families, communities and cultures – not only surviving, but thriving. I gravitated to this profession with a greater understanding of the resilience in all of us. I am from the San Juan Islands and gain perspective from our powerful blue Pacific.