Therapists in Lafayette, CO

Greetings and thanks for exploring my counseling practice. While the majority of my clients are between the ages of 5 and 15, I also work with older kids and adults on their own issues, parenting practices, stress and anxiety management, and more. Whether you are looking for an empathic ear or concrete coping strategies for yourself or your child, I use a strength-based and person-centered approach to psychotherapy. Please note that I do not accept any insurance payments, but instead accept cash, checks or digital currency (Venmo, e.g.).

Are you a sensitive person who feels overwhelmed by the world around you? Do you sometimes feel like your needs are overlooked by others? Do you find yourself experiencing the same problems despite your best efforts to do things differently? I get it. I have been there myself and an important thing to understand is that you are not alone. Many of us have difficulty knowing, or even asking, for what we need. We often suffer from patterns which repeat themselves and are hard to understand. This pain can manifest in the form of depression, anxiety, and relationship challenges, among other things.

I specialize in treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, grief, relationship challenges, spiritual crisis/integration, and I coach people to help them realize their life goals, what they really want in life, work/career and relationships. I use specialized cognitive, client centered, and somatic approaches. For details please see www.newtranspersonalpsychotherapy.com

I consider my role as a psychologist to be one of great privilege. As I journey with others through the issues that have brought them to therapy, I often feel invited into sacred spaces, filled with suffering, pain, confusion, or one’s deepest longings of the heart. It is in these sacred spaces that there is also opportunity for change, for hope, for healing. My hope is that through the process of psychotherapy people will come to experience greater freedom and vitality, deeper capacities for love and creativity, and more meaningful and redemptive relationships.

I work with men, children, adolescents, college and Highly Sensitive People. With men, I specialize in increasing emotional intelligence and communication so they can enrich relationships with their loved ones that are struggling or can be better than it is. When working with children and adolescents, I specialize in anxiety, building coping and interpersonal skills, and healing through traumatic or confusing times and events. With Highly Sensitive People, I specialize in helping understand their world and how to interact with it, and provide tools to take their unique strengths and qualities for self-actualization.

My clients are often looking for something beyond skills, strategies and a diagnosis. I work best with people who are looking to really sort out what's going on in their lives, and who are interested in potent and lasting change. I also work specifically with people who are increasingly concerned about environmental issues or experience climate anxiety, grief or other feelings associated with environmental issues. As an avid outdoorsman and a Cross Country Ski instructor on weekends, I also frequently work with individuals from the climbing, skiing, mountaineering and other outdoor recreation communities.

In a failing relationship, or failing to succeed in your professional or academic pursuits? Call me today to reclaim that meaningful relationship you desire, or to begin experiencing success in your vocation or studies. I have spent over 30 years helping people develop, maintain, and revive meaningful long-term relationships, and to achieve success in their work and studies. With my training in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling, Psychoanalytic and Depth Psychotherapy, Biofeedback and Neurofeedback training, I can help you.

Did you have a challenging childhood, or experience a recent trauma? Do you have a hard time feeling okay and trusting yourself? Do you struggle with feeling a sense of meaning and purpose in your life? Regardless of what challenges you are experiencing, you can feel safe in your body, experience real peace and happiness, and feel excited to express your unique self fully in your world. I provide an attuned, direct, and holistic approach to trauma therapy, helping you heal past wounds with easy and quick tools, reconnect with your passions and inspirations, and find your place of belonging and purpose in life.

As a relationship and marital therapist, my goal is to help you and your partner to rediscover the friendship, connection and passion that initially brought you together as a couple. By applying a set of simple, yet powerful communication techniques and helping you to design an individualized "relationship plan", we will work together to co-create the relationship of your dreams (a really awesome dream, not a nightmare). As a solution-focused therapist or life coach working with an individual, my goal is to help you realize strengths, uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating.

Take time to relax and be confident I can effectively serve your mental health needs through 13 years of experience working with ADHD, anxiety, substance abuse/addictions, parenting difficulties, depression, and relationship difficulties. In our sessions we will work collaboratively to help you feel better, more relaxed, to improve the quality of your life, and ultimately to increase your hope. I will be as practical as possible for your benefit. You should contact me if you are ready to experience deep and long-lasting change!

Now offering Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for depression, anxiety and trauma. The number one thing I offer my clients is a safe, non-judgmental, and non-shaming relationship, where you feel understood and you get relief! Without that, any therapy will fail. I work with you to understand what is underneath the deep feelings that bring you to therapy. My clients would say that I build trust fast and they know they are loved. Some of my specialties over a decade of practice include: Deep work for the individual.

I'm a couples counselor and intimacy/sex coach who can help you with your challenges in communication, conflict, trust/infidelity, and intimacy style differences. In your marriage or long-term relationship, did you have excellent sexual chemistry at the beginning, but after 5, 10, 20+ years the chemistry has waned? Have your efforts to communicate to your partner what pleases you been unsuccessful? Is it challenging to integrate your committed journey in faith with your sexuality? Does your partner want to be polyamorous, but you are unwilling to accept that? Do you need help navigating an alternative lifestyle?

I work with all parts of you that are willing and able to show up, to better understand where big (and sometimes lonely and scary) emotions, thought patterns, and behaviors are coming from and how to move forward with these. I work with highly-motivated adults who wish to dig deep and heal.

If you feel overwhelmed by the state of the world, and find yourself thinking "A cloud of worry and criticism seems to follow me wherever I go. I have a decent job, most of my problems seem small compared to others, and yet that doesn't change the fact that most days I want to give up. My free time is a minefield of avoidance, distraction, and overwhelm. The things I really want to do with my life feel far away, and mustering the motivation to do something about it can feel impossible. I'm terrified that my whole life will be one long, crushing disappointment. Why does it have to be so hard?" I can help. We can do this together.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years experience working with adolescents and adults. My areas of focus are with anxiety, depression, substance abuse/addictions, life transitions, ADD/ADHD and low motivation/self-esteem. I support individuals in working through their barriers, creating healthy coping skills, helping to establish a true sense of self, connection within relationships and within ones community. In addition, I am a trained Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapist and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapist (KAP) who offers preparation and integration support for psychedelic use.

I specialize in couples counseling and men’s issues. FOR COUPLES, I help you use existing strengths in a process of Calming, Listening, Recommitting and Problem-Solving. This work exposes deep wounds beneath the conflict. Healing those wounds is the victory you need. FOR MEN, whether your struggle is relational, depression, anxiety, substance use or another, we can interrupt the repeating cycle with new habits, thoughts, behaviors, faith and\or relationships. I have been married 35 years, with 4 grown children. I have had 3 careers including USAF pilot, software development and now therapist and chaplain. I believe I can help you.

Wanting change? I am a licensed professional counselor, trauma healing wilderness therapist, coach, and men's group facilitator. I believe we have 1 life to live. My passion is helping you discover your way to live as fully and happily as possible. It is important to me that you experience progress, so I work hard with you wherever you are at in your struggles. My approach is both sensitive but masculine so that you feel safe and unpressured while bravely examining your inner blocks. Together we create action plans that help you apply your insights and get the most out of our work together. We go as deep as you feel ready to go.

Are you in a challenging relationship dynamic, dealing with anxiety, feeling unfulfilled, lacking purpose, or at an uncertain juncture in your life? I help you boldly shift limiting patterns to create the fulfilling life and relationship you want. I specialize in helping both individuals and couples optimize their relationship dynamics to open to more love. In couples work, we help you shift reactions you're having with each other that create closure and conflict, and create reparative experiences where you come to skillfully collaborate in helping each other feel good.

Dr. Leistikow has over 40 years of doing brief directed hypnosis in 12-16 sessions for trauma, PTSD, panic disorder, general anxiety and chronic depression and insomnia. As an MD, he is able to combine therapy with both prescription and holistic medicine using various vitamins, minerals and natural supplements. Many people don't need prescription medications long term and may be able to get off medications after treatment. Learn more about his approach at his website Brief Psychotherapy Institute of the Rockies: www.bpiotr.com Also can do virtual sessions after introduction