About LS

they/them

LS Snyder has worked in behavioral health since 2014 starting in nonprofit organizations and high-risk psychiatric care for adolescents, academic research, and working through residential and outpatient settings for adults to eventually administrative and operational program development. They now consult independently through LWS LLC, alongside offering contracted peer support services as a Certified Peer Support Specialist.


LS is in recovery from poly-substance use since 2013, and has lived experience across substance abuse, mental health, traumatic loss, grief, and dysfunctional or challenging family systems. They lost a brother to a fatal overdose, lost their mother to cancer rapidly and traumatically, countless friends lost to overdose and traumatic deaths; where grief and bereavement is something LS tends to due to their experiences. They have navigated homelessness, periods of abuse and domestic violence, sexual assault, etc. They know what it means to rebuild a life from nothing and to do it while navigating systems that weren't always designed with people like them in mind. They are a member of the LGBTQIA+ community and understand firsthand what it means to move through spaces that aren't always safe or affirming and where resources are lacking.

"Through everything, and there was a lot of everything, my mother could still hold space for me and love me. I have tailored my life after her and how she modeled love and care into everything and for everyone. This work is my way of doing for others what she did for me."

In 2013, LS made a radical commitment to change after a long-term romance with substance abuse. After completing residential treatment, they worked towards pursuing a degree and entered the behavioral health field. From there on they developed their career working their way through the industry, from frontline staff to leadership. They became a Certified Peer Support Specialist because they believe harm reduction and peer-driven care are among the most important things this field offers, and because they wanted to formalize the work they had always been doing anyway.

LS is transparent from the start: they are not a therapist, and peer support is distinct from clinical care. What they bring, in both consulting and peer support, is something earned rather than studied: the credibility that comes from having been there, at every level.

Credentials

  • Certified Peer Support Specialist, Cert. #F26-144334

  • B.S. Psychology, Utah Valley University

  • Program Development, Leadership & Administrative roles (2015–2025) | In behavioral health since 2014

  • 14 presentations at national & international conferences

  • Keynote speaker, Taipei, Taiwan (2018)

  • Governed by national peer support ethical standards (NCPRSS / SAMHSA)

THE NAME

"Little Woven Strategies is named after my mother (her initials are LWS). She was a writer. She was the thread that kept people connected, she would weave stories together, hold people in her words, and make sure everyone knew they were loved. She was hilarious and tender and lord could she write. And through everything I put her through, she could still hold space for me. She is woven into everything I do.”


The name is a tribute. It is also a practice. LS believes that the strategies that hold us together are often small, quiet, and woven slowly over time, through connection, through story, through someone choosing to stay. This work is what it looks like to carry that forward.


The approach behind the work.

EARNED, NOT THEORETICAL

Every consulting engagement and every peer support group is informed by real experience, years spent inside behavioral health organizations and a lifetime of personal lived experience. Nothing here is handed down from the outside.

TRANSPARENT FROM THE START

LS is always clear about who they are, what they are not, and what each service can and cannot offer. In consulting, that means honest assessments over comfortable ones. In peer support, it means participants always know exactly what they're walking into.

OUTSIDE AND OBJECTIVE

No internal agenda. No organizational allegiance. Whether consulting or facilitating, LS comes in as a consistent, trustworthy outside presence which is often exactly what's needed to see clearly and speak honestly.