Meet Leila Reyes, MSW
Helping high-achieving women break free from the patterns shaped by early wounds so they can create healthy, nourishing love.
Relationships shape who we become – and for many successful, accomplished women, the pain isn’t the past itself, but the patterns that formed around it. My work is about helping you interrupt those patterns so you can finally create the love and life you’re fully capable of.
Relationships have always mattered to me. They’re central to our sense of safety, belonging, and meaning.
Yet even with advanced training and years of coaching experience, I found myself repeating patterns that made intimacy confusing and painful.
The turning point wasn’t another modality. It was the moment I saw the truth:
It wasn’t the trauma itself that held me back — it was the patterns the trauma created.
Once I became willing to look honestly at who I was being, what I believed, and how I protected myself, everything shifted. My relationships became healthier, steadier, and deeply nourishing in ways I didn’t know were possible for me.
That transformation shaped the work I bring to others now:
Supporting people as they free themselves from the patterns that limit their capacity for healthy love.
You Are Whole
I see your inherent worth — even when you lose sight of it.
Clear, Evidence-Based Guidance
My work draws from trauma-informed coaching, nervous-system awareness, somatic principles, and identity transformation.
A Grounded, Compassionate Container
I hold a strong, stable space where truth, responsibility, and transformation can unfold.
Whether I’m working with survivors of early harm or with individuals seeking to take responsibility for past actions, my focus is always the same:
truth, integrity, relational maturity, and freedom.
I hold a Master’s in Social Work and have invested more than two decades as a trauma-informed relationship coach.
I’m the author of Freedom from Shame: Trauma, Forgiveness, and Healing from Sexual Abuse, which received the International Impact Book Award.
I also host the From Trauma to True Love podcast, where I explore the neuroscience of connection and the patterns that shape our relational lives.
I’ve been mentored by some of the leading voices in personal transformation and relational integrity, and I’ve guided thousands of people in creating relationships that reflect their true selves rather than their old wounds.
- Degrees & Training
- MSW, Master’s in Social Work
- Graduate of Hakomi (body-centered psychotherapy)
- Master Certified Integrative Professional Coach
- Certifications
- Conscious Uncoupling™
- Calling in “The One”™
- Spiritual Divorce
- Best Year of Your Life
- Professional Roles
- Lead Miracles Coach, Your Year of Miracles
- Speaker, author, and podcast host
I’ve also had some fabulous teachers and mentors along the way. One in particular that I’m deeply grateful for is my beloved teacher Jennifer Welwood, whose teachings are woven into the heart of everything I do. Her guidance in integrating spiritual and psychological principles has shaped not only how I navigate my own human life, but also inspires my work with sacred beings where I strive to create a space where you can embrace your intrinsic worth, while releasing the conditioned patterns that keep you trapped in cycles of pain and disconnection.
I spent years trying to “fix” myself through achievement, performance, and even more healing work. It wasn’t until I stopped treating myself as a problem and started seeing myself as the author of my experience that my life — and my relationships — transformed.
This is why I do this work.
Because once you see the pattern, you’re no longer controlled by it. And once you begin choosing from your true self instead of your wounds, everything changes — your relationships, your confidence, your boundaries, your sense of worth, and your future.
If you’re ready to break old patterns and create the love you deserve, I’d be honored to support you.
