About Awareness Communications™
and Me
C. Elizabeth Leach
The Evolution of Awareness Communications™
My name is C. Elizabeth Leach, and I am the principal and founder of Awareness Communications™. It all began in 2010. At that time, I became inspired, from my years of experience as an executive and director in healthcare and non-profits, to form my own organizational consulting business. It was at that moment that Awareness Communications™ (AC) launched. In its original context, AC began helping healthcare and non-profit organizations meet your goals in areas such as proposal development, grant writing, strategic planning, launching new programs, project management, branding, marketing campaigns, corporate communications, and training. Still, the scope of what I am doing continued to evolve over the years—reflecting emerging directions, interests, and trends in my areas of expertise.
I Bring a Multidimensional Edge to What I Do
The cornerstone of my work as a professional, from which I progressed into directorship roles, is the practice of psychotherapy, coaching, and as an employee assistance professional (EAP) work. Like many who have served as directors in healthcare and the nonprofit realm—I have a professional area of practice, training, and direct patient/client service that is the foundation of my work. Since 2011, The Awareness Practice™, a separate entity, serves as my forum for offering those direct services—psychotherapy, coaching and EAP work.
Awareness Communications™ maintains a separate yet complementary scope of work from The Awareness Practice™ and has grown to augment my private practice’s services with relevant workshops and events, continuing education for professionals, patient/client-directed education, and wellness-related and mindfulness education for general audiences and those of healthcare organizations and non-profits… rounding out the full spectrum of my initiatives and offerings here at Awareness Communications™.
My Bio
As the Principal of Awareness Communications™ LLC, www.awareness-communications.com and The Awareness Practice™ LLC www.awareness-practice.com for over a decade, I presently serve as a psychotherapist, coach, retreat guide, educator and consultant in private practice with offices in Princeton and Hillsborough, New Jersey. I have led teams for over twenty years as an executive, director or management consultant in a range of healthcare and social service settings, as well as a management consultant through Awareness Communications™, of course. Presently affiliated with several Employee Assistance Programs, I am known for my work with executives and professionals, as well facilitating seminars and workshops.
With a master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from New York University (NYU) and a bachelor’s degree with a concentration in Comparative Religion and Cultures from Brown University—I have taught graduate and post-graduate students at NYU as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer—including topics on cross-cultural practice and spirituality. As a marriage and family therapist, I have refined skills from this knowledge base to inform my organizational consulting that blends corporate experience with systemic understanding derived from Bowenian systems theory, solution-focused methods, as well as narrative approaches geared toward restoring the health within systems through re-storying your narratives. My clinical work is not a part of Awareness Communications™, but rather as I have described before, something that is offered through The Awareness Practice™. For additional information about my clinical work, professional designations, and background—please visit the website of The Awareness Practice™ LLC.
I have completed intensive trainings and received multiple designations from an array of spiritual programs. I am an ordained minister of the Universal Worship Service and enjoy offering celebrancy through weddings, funerals, house blessings and so on. I have completed a two year alchemical retreat guide training and certification to lead alchemical retreats. My publications include “The Psychology of Self in Sufism” in the Journal Sufi, co-authored with Terry Graham, and also co-authored with Dinesh Sharma an article on optimistic universalism and social justice in the life and works of Rumi, Wordsworth, and Mazrui in The Journal of African and Asian Studies. My poem, “Dohm Alley Musings” was included as a part of a several-year outdoor Romantic Poet’s Exhibit in downtown Princeton.
“J’accept le grand aventure d’être moi.”
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Translation:
“I accept the great adventure of being me.”
…and accompany you on the great adventure of you being you.