Teletherapy for Colorado

Are you dealing with trauma, anxiety, addiction, stress, grief, or loss? Do you want peace of mind and to enjoy success? I help individuals realign with their integrity and strength to make the changes they want. Using Eastern and Western techniques I help clients 're-story' traumas and anxieties that allow them to achieve their goals. As an ordained Buddhist priest and former Chaplain, I also offer spiritual counseling. My experience training/counseling prisoners in the United States and Indonesia taught me how often we imprison ourselves with our own emotions.

Are you experiencing anxious feelings, restless thoughts, or negative self-talk? Using traditional talk-therapy along with intuitive movement, posture, and breath, I’ll join forces with you on your journey of personal development and healing. I'm dedicated to helping you recognize your innate strength through mindfulness practice and self-inquiry. Cultivating a relationship based on trust and open communication is the foundation of my compassionate and direct method. Let’s work together to release the limiting beliefs and old stories about who you used to be, and experience the joy of your infinite potential in the here-and-now.

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.

I combine Buddhist psychology with positive psychology to help clients understand how patterns of thinking are creating continued suffering. With a little guidance, thought patterns can shift and allow us to stop reacting to life and begin choosing. I believe that we need to look into the past but not re-traumatize ourselves by reliving those memories. I value the connection between myself and my client as the primary trusting tool as we work toward awareness and safety. This therapeutic alliance is the key to creating the life you want.

As humans we experience suffering (painful emotional states). This is normal...but what happens when you feel stuck here; as if you were living the same day over and over. Likely, your nervous system is overwhelmed and under-resourced. You attempt to cope the best way you know how. This might look like using substances, excessive sleeping or business, shopping, scrolling on media for hours, sex, self-harm, avoiding and people and responsibilities to name a few. While these are brilliant attempts to escape, numb or avoid the pain, it's not sustainable, nor should it be!

Nathan Daly (they/them/theirs) cannot and will not “fix” you because you are not broken and because all gains made in the therapeutic relationship are a result of your willingness to come to know yourself. Theories and modalities central to Nathan's practice include Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness and Buddhist contemplation practices, feminist theory, family systems, and attachment theory. Nathan's training, passion and personal style tend to be most effective in working with adult survivors of childhood abuse (e.g., sexual, psychological, physical and spiritual) in an individual, couples and family capacity.

With a foundation of trauma-sensitive mindfulness, I collaboratively create a client-centered space for people to uncover obstacles that block aliveness, connection, safety, intimacy, transformation, resiliency, and joy. With an awake heart, clarity, and nonjudgmental presence, I help clients find perspective, make meaning of life’s difficulties, access their innate wisdom, and gain skills to thrive and emerge into their full self. From European white ancestry and queer lineages, I am an artist and Buddhist practitioner who derives inspiration and purpose from the forces of nature, meditation, and relationships.

Let's start with the future. You'll not get there if you don't know where you're going. Creating an image of how you'd like things to be instead of how they are will provide a positive focus for therapy. My job as a therapist is to help in creating that image, guide you in moving forward, and assist you in resolving past and current issues that get in the way.

Therapy is a journey to come more completely into your authentic self. It can be difficult to ask for help, yet as humans we all need help especially at difficult times. In my client focused therapy, I strive to create a safe space to explore your inner world. Our current landscape is full of speed and activity, I help my clients to slow down and work with feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, depression and trauma symptoms. My passion is to empower you to experience your innate wellness through conversation, mindfulness, art and body awareness practices.

Sometimes the state of our world can feel so scary and heartbreaking that we feel immobilized. Much of our potential is blocked by feeling overwhelmed by the day to day challenge of struggling to advocate for ourselves in our communities, the world, even in our own thoughts and beliefs! It is easy to feel anxious, alone and simultaneously at war with ourselves. I emphasize serving individuals that experience marginalized identities and see myself as your co-conspirator. I work with issues of identity and non-normative experiences, in the context of gender, sexuality as well as queer experience beyond that framework

It’s easy to get stuck and confused about who you are and how to find meaning in life. Do you want to know yourself better? Would you like to explore the things impacting your relationships? Are you curious about the people, places, things, and experiences that helped define your thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and attractions? These conversations are complex and not often a prioritized part of life. Many have not found the words for these parts of themselves. We are often bound by cultural conditions, traumas, and obstacles that hold us back from connecting to an aliveness that promotes healing and moves us forward in life.

Look at birds: they make great sky circles of their freedom. How do they learn to do that? They fall, and in falling, they are given wings. -Rumi

The human experience is rich, messy, and complex. Our lived experiences greatly color how we relate to and navigate our world. I can support you coming back into contact with the present moment by creating the conditions to understand and integrate the past while relating freshly to what is happening now. Cultivating more awareness and coming into connection with your body and senses are gateways to living with more engagement. You can experience more ease, joy, and health in your relationships. I strongly believe in the healing power of humor, both in and out of the therapy room. You have more freedom than you think!

Unraveling old patterns of pain, stress and trauma come from having experiences in the body that contradict old patterns. Learning to calm the nervous system through a therapeutic relationship is working at the root. It is good to want to feel more connected to yourself, others, and the world...and healing is possible through awareness, working with your body and brain health, and discovering new skills and tools. Early childhood wounding, loss of boundaries, ineffective coping and attachment issues are often at the heart of confusion, pain, and suffering. The antidote is care and safety, and change is possible. Its ok.