Soul Works Healing founder & therapist

Logan Brantley, LCSW

Logan Brantley is a licensed therapist (LCSW) who provides mental health care for adults and children, as well as mental health consultation for socio-emotional programming. Logan provides in-person care in San Diego, CA as well as virtual care in all of CA, TX, IL, DC, MD and VA.

Logan currently works as a child & adult therapist, expressive arts facilitator and Bastyr adjunct professor & clinic supervisor. In addition to 8 years of clinical experience,  Logan has special interests in working with trauma & resiliency, generational & identity stories, as well as self-compassion & life-value. Logan aims to bring a mind, body and soulful approach to strengths-based healing.

In her free time, Logan loves cuddling with her Shiba Inu, Nala, watching sunsets with her husband, reading funny fiction, watching Turner Classic Movies and enjoying sunny beach days with friends. Logan is an active artist and loves collaborating with others creativity.

  • Logan approaches the human experience as being unique to an individuals personal relationship with themselves and their environment. Logan strives to practice radical appreciation of each persons unique resiliency.

    Logan believes in a holistic brain-body approach to therapy and healing work through incorporating visualization, movement, somatic reflection and the expressive arts into her therapeutic work. Logan is dedicated to unraveling interlocking societal oppressive structures in her personal and professional life through social justice embodiment and education.

  • Logan graduated from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a double Bachelors degree in Studio Art and Psychology, followed by a Masters in Social Work.

    Logan’s clinical approaches derive from strengths-based modalities such as Somatic Parts-work (SE & IFS based), trauma-informed care, mindfulness, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, play therapy and expressive arts therapy. All of which she has taken extensive training in.

    Logan is currently pursuing a doctorate in Expressive Arts Therapy.

  • Since beginning her career in the field of social work, Logan has specialized in supporting populations who have experienced trauma, particularly sexual and intergenerational trauma. Her professional wisdom derives from her time as an individual trauma therapist in group private practice, as an early education School Social Worker in low-income, high-risk areas in Washington, D.C and in her prior clinical and advocacy work at a North Carolina Child Advocacy Center. 

  • Logan was awarded the Insoo Kim Berg Award for “Outstanding Contribution to Social Work Knowledge and Practice” in 2018, and “Community of Practice Award” in 2019. In 2020-2021, Logan sat on the Advisory Board and professional development committee of NASW-DC.

  • Logan is an Expressive Arts practice and philosophy PhD student with The European Graduate School. In her research, Logan is curious about the metaphysics and neurobiology of expressive arts’ intersection with person-in-world intra and interpersonal connection.