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
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.
McKayli Abbe
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Works with Individual adults-relationship specialist
Somatic EMDR
Brainspotting
Internal Family System (IFS)
Psychodrama
Compassion-focus
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
McKayli Abbe is a licensed therapist who has spent the last five years serving her community through steady, thoughtful clinical work. She graduated from the University of Utah, and long before becoming a therapist, she worked as a youth mentor, providing direct support to children who needed consistency, care, and someone in their corner.
That early work continues to influence how she practices today. McKayli now works primarily with adults, especially those who carry the impact of childhood hardship into their present lives. She understands how early experiences don’t stay in the past, and how they can carry into relationships, self-worth, and the way people move through the world.
She also enjoys working with adults who aren’t focused on trauma narratives, but are looking for practical support and real movement. Some clients come in wanting help building skills, gaining clarity, or finding steadier footing in their day-to-day lives. McKayli meets people where they are.
She brings training in EMDR, Brainspotting, and psychodrama, and approaches therapy in a way that feels grounded and clear.
Her style is relaxed and intentional. She values being supportive, without being passive.
McKayli believes meaningful therapy holds both care and honesty. People deserve to feel understood, and they also deserve to be challenged in ways that are compassionate and respectful. Growth doesn’t come from being coddled or pushed, but from being met with sincerity and a willingness to engage what’s actually happening.
She is especially passionate about working with people in Utah who feel marginalized or unseen within the dominant culture. Her work is rooted in respect for lived experience and a belief that healing happens through connection, authenticity, and being able to show up as yourself.
Outside the therapy room, McKayli enjoys yoga, reading, and spending time with her pets. She loves rock climbing and can often be found climbing in the outdoor spaces around Salt Lake City. She also enjoys learning new recipes and testing them out with her partner, and has an adventurous side that shows up through travel, new food, and experiencing different cultures.