About Us
Healing grows in connection.
Your boundaries are allowed.
Your survival strategies make sense.
Shame softens with care.
You belong in yourself.
Our Passion
Our goal is to help people get to the root of the issue, not just symptom management. This requires skills to help individuals go beyond talking about their symptoms and addressing the core issues. We value integrating other therapeutic approaches that focus on deep processing, skills-building and accessing the body and mind connection to enhance the effectiveness of treatment.
Our Story
Mind + Full Therapy was founded in 2017 by Kendyl Leasure in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kendyl created the practice with the belief that therapy should evolve, and that many people are looking for approaches that go beyond traditional talk therapy. Mind + Full Therapy is built around modern, alternative, and open-minded ways of working that meet people where they are and support real change.
At Mind + Full Therapy, we focus on helping people get to the root of what’s going on, not just managing symptoms. Our goal is to support long-lasting, meaningful change rather than short-term relief.
We believe people are the experts on their own lives. Part of our work is gently challenging the idea that therapists know better than the people sitting across from them. Instead, the therapist’s role is to offer guidance, perspective, and skill while helping clients reconnect with their own inner wisdom. The approaches we use are designed to draw that wisdom forward, not override it.
We also recognize that growth requires balance. People need to feel understood and supported, and they also need space to be challenged. At Mind + Full Therapy, we work in that middle ground, where compassion and accountability can exist at the same time. Sometimes healing means being supported. Other times it means taking an honest look at the patterns that keep us stuck and being willing to face them without being coddled.
Meet Our Salt Lake City Therapists
Kendyl Leasure
Founder and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor
Works with Individual adults-trauma specialist
Inner child work
EMDR
Deep Brain Reorienting
Brainspotting
Accelerated Resolution Therapy
Coherence Therapy
Schema Therapy
Internal Family System (IFS)
Comprehensive Resource Model
Kendyl Leasure is a licensed therapist who has worked with adults in Utah for over a decade. She trained at Naropa University (2008), where her education emphasized mindfulness, experiential therapy and being present with clients. That foundation still guides her work today, therapy that celebrates being human.
In 2017, Kendyl opened her private practice with a clear intention to move beyond talk therapy alone. She wanted to build a practice rooted in depth, insight, and respect for the client’s own capacity to heal. Her work is centered on the belief that people are not broken, and that therapy works best when it strengthens a person’s internal trust rather than seeing the therapist as the authority. Instead, the therapist is a support and collaborator. The client remains the primary healer.
Much of Kendyl’s work is with complex trauma. She works with adults who learned early on how to adapt in order to survive, often at the cost of their own needs, voice, or sense of self. This includes work with PTSD, complex PTSD, attachment trauma, medical trauma, and generational trauma. She also specializes in dissociation and shame, particularly the more subtle forms that are often overlooked in traditional therapy.
Over the years, Kendyl has become a trusted resource for other mental health professionals. She provides consultation, supervision, and training to clinicians locally and internationally who are working with complex trauma, dissociation, and shame. Therapists often seek her out when cases feel stuck, overwhelming or complex.
Not everyone who works with Kendyl comes in talking about trauma. Many people come because they feel stuck, worn down, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward despite years of insight. Kendyl works with adults who want support building practical skills, increasing emotional awareness, and understanding the patterns that keep them from change.
Her approach to therapy is collaborative and non-hierarchical. She does not position herself as the expert on someone else’s life. Instead, therapy becomes a shared process of noticing what shaped you, what helped you survive, and what might be ready to change now.
Kendyl is a mindfulness-trained therapist with over a decade of personal meditation practice. She teaches mindfulness in a grounded way. The focus is on attention and choice rather than calmness as the goal.
Outside the therapy room, Kendyl’s life is shaped by music, movement, and art. She plays piano and drums, loves creating art, rollerskating, camping, and good coffee, and spends time at local music shows around Salt Lake City. She collects vinyl records, and you’ll often hear them playing at the Mind+Full Therapy office.
Amber Dunford
Associate Clinical Mental Health Counselor (supervised under Kendyl Leasure, CMHC)
Works with Individual adults- attachment specialist
Attachment-Based Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Trauma-Informed Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Compassion-focus
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Amber works with adults and young adults experiencing trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, depression, grief, faith transitions, and significant life changes. She also has a particular interest in men’s mental health and helping clients understand how childhood experiences continue to influence their emotions, relationships, and sense of self.
Amber began her clinical work as a child therapist, supporting children who had experienced trauma and helping repair attachment ruptures between children and their caregivers. This work gave her a deep respect for the ways our earliest relationships shape how we understand ourselves, relate to others, and move through the world. She now brings that foundation into her work with adults, helping clients explore the emotional patterns and protective strategies that developed in response to earlier experiences.
Amber takes care in building a therapeutic relationship that feels comfortable, trusting, and collaborative. She pays attention to the details, memories, and milestones that make up each client’s story, while allowing therapy to move at a pace that feels manageable. Clients can expect Amber to be attentive, warm, grounded, and lighthearted, offering genuine curiosity, gentle feedback, and steady support.
Her approach draws from psychodynamic therapy, attachment theory, trauma-informed therapy, mindfulness, CBT, solution-focused therapy, and somatic approaches. Rather than focusing only on symptom relief, Amber helps clients develop a deeper understanding of their emotions, recognize how past experiences may be shaping their present lives, and build practical tools for navigating current challenges. She hopes clients leave therapy feeling more connected to themselves, more stable in their lives, and better able to move toward what feels meaningful to them.
Amber also has a background in interior design and has taught Design Psychology as an adjunct professor for more than 14 years. Her understanding of design psychology gives her a unique perspective on how our surroundings affect our emotions and mental health. She is particularly interested in how sensory experiences and physical spaces can support healing, as well as how our external environments sometimes reflect what is happening internally.
Outside of therapy, Amber loves architecture, interior design, gardening, traveling, and exploring new places. She enjoys Pilates, camping near woods and water, antique shopping, home improvement projects, and finding art and furniture with a good story behind them. She is also firmly in favor of eating anywhere with a patio.