Therapists in East Boulder, Boulder, CO

Hello and welcome! I'm here to compassionately guide you through grief, trauma, and life transitions. Whether facing challenges or seeking support for relationship insecurities, my mission is to facilitate understanding and healing. From career shifts to changes in relationships, I bring expertise to navigate transformations. For couples with connection struggles, I provide support to strengthen your bond. Through a client-centered approach, we'll explore experiences, fostering resiliency, understanding, and renewed security. If you're on a journey to self-compassion and fulfillment, let’s connect.

I am a Licensed Psychotherapist specializing in Individual and Couples Therapies. I maintain a private practice in Boulder, Colorado and am a graduate of Naropa University. With over 21yrs of experience the therapeutic approach I use is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients effectively address personal life challenges. As needed, I integrate complementary methodologies and techniques to offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each client. With compassion and understanding, I work with each individual to help them build on their strengths and attain the personal growth they are committed to accomplishing.

My intention is to create a powerful therapeutic relationship between myself and my clients. I know and have witnessed that struggling with sexuality issues can often lead to feelings of shame or embarrassment. I see our sexualities as one of the most diverse and unique parts of ourselves. I believe that difference does not equal disorder, and being "normal" is often not the goal. I am poly/open and kink knowledgeable and have experience in working with non-traditional relationship dynamics, LGBTQIA2+ issues, individuals and couples & families relationship issues.

Welcome! I’m glad you’ve decided to reach out for counseling, as I know it can often be a difficult step to take. I look forward to getting to know you as you explore what brought you here. I have over 20 years of experience in the mental health field working with individuals of all age ranges. I enjoy working with individuals and couples and utilize a person-centered approach, where I meet each individual where they are at on their journey towards wellness. I believe in the mind-body connection and the importance of using a holistic approach to building resilience and meeting life’s challenges.

My approach integrates DBT, CBT, Gottman Method, Attachment Theory, body-based therapies, humor, and creativity to support clients in understanding unhelpful patterns; setting healthy boundaries and communicate needs to the people they love. My hope is to help clients create agency and purpose in their lives through providing the space necessary for individuals and couples to address a wide range of challenges that arise within significant relationships and impact our overall well-being.

Do you and your partner suffer from communication problems? Did one of you have an affair and you are wondering if you can rebuild your relationship? Do you long for the days when you felt loved by your partner instead of lonely and in pain? Relationship stress takes a huge toll on your daily life. It can make it impossible to function at work, parent your kids and just get through your day. Studies show that a toxic relationship can even negatively impact your physical health. If any of these difficulties sound familiar, you are not alone. We all need to feel safe with our partner in order to be our best selves in relationship.

As a body centered therapist I tend to work experientially, with movement and sometimes use cranial sacral touch to support nervous system regulation and healing. Individuals, couples and family who are interested in skill building, improved communication, self agency and self awareness while addressing challenges including depression, anxiety, relational issues, attachment dynamics and traumatic events. I support intention setting from the client's perspective and encourage their full participation.

Therapy can help you tap into your innate resilience and develop the coping skills to heal from trauma, emotional reactivity, grief and relationship challenges. I work with clients to help them understand their reactions, their relationship needs, access their strengths, and develop supportive coping strategies by drawing upon a variety of evidence-based therapeutic techniques including psychotherapy, EMDR, self-compassion, strengths based therapy and emotion focused therapy. Whether you're working through loss, anxiety, depression or trauma, you don't have to do it alone. Appointments are available in person or via telehealth.

Challenges are essential to growth. We all face challenges. The various challenges, crises, traumas we all inevitably encounter can create anxiety, depression, and disconnection. Unfortunately, labels and diagnoses can stop you from seeing that you are okay. As you are. Your felt experiences of hurt, when processed deeply, actually lead to self-discovery. Seeking help doesn’t mean that anything is necessarily wrong. In fact, expertise can guide you through these moments safely. Through somatic healing therapy, individuals and couples will find inner strength to start anew.

Therapy can be a space to understand our emotions, learn to control our reactions, and increase communication skills. My strengths are in working with grief, anxiety, depression, and strengthening boundaries. In addition to individuals, I work with both couples and with families beginning a journey of uncoupling. I work best with people who bring a curiosity and desire to learn more about their thoughts and behaviors while on the path to healing.

I offer a mindfulness-based approach for teens and adults. I provide a gentle, safe & nonjudgmental space to explore emotions, painful memories, grief, and limiting beliefs or self defeating patterns. Trauma work can help integrate lost parts of self to relieve anxiety, depression, anger, health concerns & PTSD. Using EMDR and body/mind methods, I help those feeling stuck find resolution and transformation. For grief work I use EMDR and Pathfinders, Comprehensive Grief Care. As a PACT therapist for couples, I help you improve communication, understanding & secure functioning to support connection and pathways to repair.

I became a therapist because I believe in the transformative power of therapy and its ability to destigmatize mental health. I’m passionate about fostering a strong therapeutic relationship, one built on empathy, loyalty, and trust. Witnessing my clients feel respected, cared for, and understood as they learn to navigate their mental well-being is incredibly rewarding. I am also a LGBTQIA+ allied therapist.

Entering psychotherapy may be one of the hardest and best things you will ever do. It is an act of courage and hope, and contains the implicit belief that you have the power to change your life. It requires a trusting, connected relationship with someone who will understand and not judge. We will figure out together what is blocking you from reaching your potential, and help you get closer to living the vital, rich, fulfilling life you were meant to lead.

As humans, our desire for connection and belonging is innate, healthy and our birthright. Too often, parts of us seem to sabotage our relationships and peace of mind by utilizing old learned patterns, meant to protect, but now limiting our fullest expressions of love and security. When we explore, honor and understand the origins of these parts and turn toward them with compassion, we offer ourselves the opportunity to integrate and heal old wounds, to live and love in the present, informed by, but not limited by the past. I assist individuals and couples in transforming themselves and their relationships.

Here at Whole Connection, we believe that a healing relationship is the most important part of therapy. This connection allows each client to safely explore and create the changes and healing they are striving for. Our therapists support clients working with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, identity exploration, and a variety of other challenges that can arise in everyday life. We often work individually, with couples, or in a group setting to help our clients build the skills they need to work through and remain resilient in difficult times.

Are you a new mom coping with significant life changes? Are you dealing with stress, grief, or a unique challenge while parenting? Do you feel like your relationships and identity are shifting? Do you feel blah, exhausted, or lonely? I get how challenging parenting can be. Having a gentle, nonjudgmental place to explore deeper feelings and feel supported can lighten your load. Getting some time just for you, whether to talk things out, recharge, set goals, acknowledge your strengths, or see things from a fresh perspective can help you parent mindfully & joyfully and feel like yourself again.

Do you tend to hold your feelings in? Sweep things under the rug and pretend everything is okay? Do you help others but not yourself? Does the idea of sitting down and talking about feelings to a stranger sound terrible or terrifying? I want to help you confront the difficulties in your life head on. It’s my job as your therapist to listen to you, your needs, your wants, and your values and create a safe space that will allow you to be fully vulnerable. I’ll help you find and learn about the strengths you already have to help you gain higher self-esteem, comfort in your own skin and in your relationships, and overall more joy.

My clients are people who feel like they don't belong, desire more fulfillment in their relationships, and want relief from a variety of anxiety symptoms and overwhelm. I understand how hard it can be to live in a world where mental health challenges and neurodivergence is misunderstood or even treated inappropriately–it can often leave you feeling invisible and alone, wondering how to find wellbeing, joy and genuine connections with others. Many of my clients come to me wondering about their various symptoms and are looking for support from someone who can help them navigate the sources of their suffering and find relief.

You may vacillate between highly anxious and just going through the motions: numb, disconnected, checked out. You feel overwhelmed with your daily life- tense, tight, constricted. Some days, even though you are trying your best, you blow up at the drop of a hat. Things that used to be easy make you feel anxious and fearful. You may feel like you are at the bottom of a well. Whether you know how you ended up here, or if you feel confused and uncertain, therapy can open doors to new ways of being that help you to feel like yourself again.