Leslie Pertz, LMSW, NIC, PLLC

02/27/2026

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02/20/2026

Yes!

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02/18/2026

It’s not because you need to hustle better.

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02/06/2026

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02/04/2026

Come join me on this great EMDR refresher and to have rich discussion how to make standard protocol accessible for ALL of your clients!

02/02/2026

You get fresh air into your lungs, engage the flight response, and get bilateral movement. Walk, then think and talk.

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Stressful meetings, intense conversations, therapy sessions, and any other emotional situation should involve walking. Either during or after. Walking is the body’s most natural way of regulating and processing emotions. It’s how we make sense of what happens to us. The next time you have to talk about something hard, do it while you walk. The next time you need to make an important decision walk on it before you decide

02/01/2026

Yesterday I was doing this, today I am facilitating training with 40 mental health clinicians willing to take the plunge to learn all about EMDR! The weather is about this same, but the vibes today are oh so cozy. And there’s no lines! 😂

01/09/2026

It’s been another rough week, yeah? Take care of yourself as you need. Doomscroll and dissociate all you need, as long as you make it to next week.

In graduate school they taught us to “be neutral.” In the time since then I’ve learned this doesn’t work. Because we can’t do therapy with someone who has been murdered by ICE.

I’m a trauma therapist. Don’t DM me, lol. But I am loud about political issues because trauma is political. If you’re already my client, you already know this. If you want to be my client, it’s gonna be like this. I want you to heal, I want me to heal, I want our world to heal. I’ll keep yelling about that until we do.

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01/09/2026

That’s a wrap on my first week back in a normal office. I haven’t had my own office in over 20 years, and I’ve never had to furnish one myself. I don’t like it yet, but I’ll get there.

12/30/2025

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One of the problems with identifying and treating perinatal women in distress is that symptoms are hard to discern. This is true for the women, men, and families who suffer. This is also true for the healthcare providers who treat them.

Symptoms overlap with normal, expected perinatal changes and do not always fit into discrete or identifiable categories. Unlike other medical conditions that might present themselves in a measurable fashion, perinatal distress is often subjective.

Still, every single physician and provider who comes face to face with a pregnant or postpartum woman can and should provide them with accurate information, support and resources.

✅ They should talk about postpartum depression and anxiety. They should say those words.

✅ They should talk to their patient, the way they talk about high blood pressure, or good nutrition, or what to do and what not to do during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

✅ They should encourage her to take care of herself with an action plan, if she does not like the way she is feeling.

✅ They should tell her that symptoms of postpartum depression and anxiety are treatable.

✅ They should tell her that while we expect some level of adjustment distress, she should not have to suffer or wonder what is wrong.

✅ Because symptoms of depression and anxiety quickly morph into a distorted core belief that “something is terribly wrong with ME” and then, it is no longer just about symptoms, it’s about who she is. This irrational belief that she is impaired, or flawed, or somehow unfit to be her baby’s mother, is part of what drives the shame and potential for suicidal thoughts.

12/18/2025

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