At the heart of this work is developing a lived relationship with your own inner knowing and guidance—a source of support you can continue to draw upon as you move through everyday life.

With that deeper support, you can become more present to your life and more able to look honestly at the difficult places in your life and in yourself. From there, healing can take place, allowing you to live more fully in your body, move with greater freedom through your life, and experience a deeper sense of peace.

Going Inward to Connect with Yourself and the Sacred

An invitation to deeper self-understanding, healing, and inner knowing.

You may understand your patterns. You may have spent years in therapy, meditation, spiritual practice, or other forms of inner work. And yet something still feels unresolved.

You may feel stuck, fragmented, disconnected, or caught in patterns you understand intellectually but haven't been able to change.

This work begins with the understanding that there are deeper layers to our experience than what we can reach through thinking alone.

I work with people who feel a genuine connection to something larger than themselves and want to develop that connection as a source of support, wisdom, and guidance in their lives. My work offers a space to explore those deeper layers together.

Exploring the deeper layers of your experience

Through Depth Hypnosis and Applied Shamanic Practice, we explore what lies beneath the patterns, thoughts, emotions, and experiences that shape your life.

We may work with memories, wounds, beliefs, emotions, relationships, dreams, and imprints that continue to influence how you experience yourself and the world around you.

Rather than only thinking and talking about what has happened, we create an opportunity to experience what is beneath it and bring healing to its source. New understanding can emerge. You may discover an inner resource, reconnect with a part of yourself, access personal power, or find a new way of understanding something that has been difficult to resolve.

At the heart of this work is developing a lived relationship with your own inner knowing and guidance—something you can continue to draw upon as you move through everyday life.

Your experience of this may be deeply personal. It might feel like a connection with your deeper self, the divine, God, Source, the universe, or simply a knowing that arises from within. You do not need to hold a particular spiritual or religious belief to participate in this work.

What we can explore together

You might come to this work because you are:

• moving through a significant change or transition

• carrying the effects of trauma or difficult life experiences

• caught in patterns you understand but have not been able to change

• experiencing emotions that feel stuck, buried, or difficult to access

• repeatedly pulled into memories, thoughts, or dreams from the past

• feeling disconnected from yourself or your sense of personal power

• seeking greater meaning, purpose, direction, or connection with the sacred

We can explore the places where you feel stuck or disconnected, as well as the places where you feel called toward something more.

The intention is not to escape difficult experiences or simply learn to manage them. It is to understand what is happening at a deeper level, allow what has remained unresolved to move toward healing, and create greater freedom in how you live.

Depth Hypnosis + Applied Shamanic Practice

Depth Hypnosis, developed by Isa Gucciardi, PhD, draws from hypnosis, Buddhism, shamanism, energy medicine, and transpersonal psychology. It offers a way to work directly with deeper layers of experience that may be difficult to reach through ordinary conversation and intellectual understanding alone.

Applied Shamanic Practice draws from shamanic approaches to healing, relationship, personal power, and direct experience of the sacred.

I work with these approaches responsively, meeting you where you are and following what is most meaningful for the work at hand.

You remain an active participant throughout the process. My role is to create a supportive space where you can explore your own experience and discover what is meaningful and true for you.

You don't have to know exactly what you need.

You may know that something in your life is asking for attention.

You may have done years of psychological or spiritual work and feel there is still something deeper to explore.

Or you may simply feel drawn toward greater self-understanding, healing, connection, or a deeper relationship with the sacred.

You can begin with what is present.

Together, we can explore what is present, listen more deeply, and allow new understanding to emerge.

With gratitude, care, and respect,

Leira Sumac
Spiritual Counselor, Depth Hypnosis Practitioner, & Applied Shamanic Practitioner
Middle World Healing

A conversation to share what is bringing you here, ask questions, and explore whether working together feels like the right fit.