Therapists in Boulder, CO

It takes courage to ask for help. You may be seeking help for anxiety or depression. You may be experiencing conflicts in your relationships or stress from your job. Perhaps you feel stuck, disconnected, that something is missing in your life, or you're having difficulty with a transition of some kind. Psychotherapy is both a challenging and rewarding process. With a collaborative approach that combines insight-oriented and goal-directed interventions, I work with you to help you move towards a stronger, healthier sense of self and face challenges in a new, more thoughtful way.

Are you searching for understanding? Are you wanting to better hold the complexities of your life? Often, truth and wisdom can seem out of reach. This can be due to a number of things that act as obstacles and obscurations to our full understanding of ourselves, others, and human relationships. This experience of being confused, perplexed, or lost is a natural and normal part of being human. This does not mean, however, that you are destined to remain in a state of suffering and confusion. Your brilliance, intelligence, wisdom, and way to wellbeing remain within you. I can help you reconnect to this innate wisdom.

YOU can...reduce intrusive thoughts, be more effective in relationships, regulate the emotions that you want to, get through a crisis without making it worse, put an end to addictive behaviors, emptiness, depression, anxiety improve your performance at home, work, or play...work on your goals starting today!!

If you've found your way to my page, you're likely looking for a shift in your life, relief, change, something more. I too have been in that place, not satisfied and pained. These times were the greatest access points I've ever had for a change into something better, beyond what I've known. I've been able to capitalize on these moments with help from others and have benefitted greatly. I want to support you in the same way. I want to partner with you during this tender, potent, and valuable time.

Life can be both beautiful and challenging. Throughout our lives, we come into contact with experiences that may be described as scary or too much for us to process at that time. In most cases, our brains and our bodies have the ability to fully heal from these traumas. In other situations, these traumas get stuck in maladaptive ways and become attached to certain images, emotions, negative thoughts, or body sensations. It is here that these past traumas can negatively impact the way that we navigate the world, thus creating an inner-conflict that can disrupt our lives and the lives of those around us.

Deep trust and communication are at the heart of safe, secure, and fulfilling relationships. Whether with family, in romance, in therapy, or in sport; trust and safety allow us to be fully expressed, to explore, to take risks, and to grow. The therapeutic relationship can provide unique opportunities to feel safe, seen, and understood. It can also support our innate capacities for healing, integration, and growth.

You are looking to feel better faster. You are looking to heal in a matter of days versus months or years. You are seeking relief from complicated or troubling symptoms such as disrupted sleep, bothersome thoughts and memories, or chronic pain. You are looking for a place to go and focus on healing so that you can restore your life and get back on track. You are willing to commit to your healing work - and you don't want it to take forever. You are eager to focus and do what is needed so you can move forward with your life.

Are you hoping to uncover your inner wisdom and shift your life with the support of wholistic methods intertwined with counseling? If so, I can help you. I help sensitive people heal emotional roadblocks so they can finally trust themselves, understand their purpose and find greater emotional and spiritual freedom. Many of my clients go from surviving to thriving when they learn how to listen to and embody their true selves. If you are tired of the same disappointing cycle, I can help you close this difficult chapter and discover your soul essence, so you can finally feel confident and enlivened as the true author of your own life.

Does it seem like therapists' introductions pose similar questions and offer similar solutions? How do you know if a counselor is right for you? Healing takes place both in the relationship between you and your therapist and in the relationship you have with yourself. I trust and believe that every person holds the wisdom to their own answers for growth. Sometimes we need someone to truly listen, support, and witness us along the way. I view counseling as an opportunity to be wholly seen and heard for who you are, be supported in finding your way, and have a companion/guide with you.

I enjoy helping clients understand themselves, maybe for the first time. We are presented with so many ideas, thoughts and noise that it can be hard to find our own voice and our own way. I work with clients who are seeking greater self-understanding, connection and empowerment in their lives. I can help you experience more personal clarity and congruence while also experiencing greater richness in life. I've also studied spirituality and have found that it has added more more depth to my life and my work as a therapist; I have experience with Buddhism, the Diamond Approach and shamanism.

I offer a unique and dynamic approach to psychotherapy. I work with healing and alchemizing trauma, anxiety, depression, loss and life transitions. I specialize in working with people ready to take the deep dive to create healing and changes that lead to feelings and experiences of vitality, enjoyment, self love and clarity.

Can't fall sleep or wake up tossing and turning far too early? Summit Behavioral Sleep Medicine uses the principles of behavioral sleep medicine to address adult and pediatric insomnia. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) has been identified as the first line of treatment for chronic insomnia by both the National Institutes of Health and the British Association for Psychopharmacology. Our behavioral interventions can also help you optimize use of your CPAP machine to correct abnormal breathing patterns.

My aim is to provide highest quality and evidence-based treatment to children, young adults, and families across a wide range of emotional and behavioral difficulties. Common challenges that I treat include depression, anxiety, anger/stress management, ADHD, coping skills, parent-child conflict, sibling conflict, adjustment difficulties, school-related challenges, and more. I offer a dedicated and individually tailored approach that eclectically embodies techniques consistent with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Functional Family Therapy, Family Systems Therapy, and Behavioral Parent Training in a way that makes therapy inviting, supportive, satisfying, and in many cases fun!

Accepting NEW clients. My choice to pursue this work is a reflection of my deepest passion in life: creating safety within the emotional complexity that is being human. I have come to find that one of life's biggest challenges is finding permission to be authentically ourSelves without fear of judgement, whether that be external or internal. It has long been a quest of mine to discover what it is that holds us back from granting ourselves the ability to step into our the highest and most honest version of ourSelves and recognizing the beliefs we have to undo on the way.

Relationships are an important part of the foundation of our lives, both the relationship we have with ourselves, and the relationship we have with others. The relationship we have with ourselves can be challenged by internal conflict, feelings of being stuck, and fears that stops us, causing our lives to be unsatisfying. Since we 'live' in all 3 time periods, the past, present, and future, we want to make sure that our past 'stories' are not interfering in our present lives. And then by understanding what our fears are, we can have a better view of the future. Overall, we can become more present. Secondly, the relationship we have with others is influenced by how we're doing, so getting our own 'house' in order will help us be better in relationship! We can experience less defensiveness and more openness. Counseling is an unique opportunity to reconnect with ourselves and others. It's an opportunity to pay attention to parts of ourselves that we try to ignore. It's also an opportunity to have the life that you want and deserve.

Being a parent is hard! You don't have to do it alone. Together we will discover your strengths and hone your skills to address the challenging parenting situations you are facing.

Adverse childhood experiences can be stored in our bodies and in our unconscious/subconscious minds, driving our behaviors and affecting our natural impulses that allow us to thrive. My clients seek freedom from out-dated mental and bodily reactions derived from these past experiences and/or traumatic events. They want their choice restored when making decisions, for cultivating and sustaining relationships, and in creating a meaningful life.

Are you feeling stuck, stressed or simply don't feel as good as you would like to? How can you change the way you feel, think and experience life? Most people are creatures of habit and once they settle into a repetitive pattern, find it daunting to move out of it. Unconscious conditioning is a powerful unseen player that creates repetitive patterns which greatly affect your quality of life. I help you access your unconscious patterns and reprogram them, freeing your intrinsic health, wisdom and zest for life.

I am committed to helping people contact, explore, and work through their emotional pain, relational wounds, and attachment patterns. My ongoing training, personal therapy, and supervision allow me to listen deeply and non-judgmentally as we engage in a therapeutic dialogue in which your emotional needs are made a priority.