Therapists in 80302

Hello! I am a Family Therapist & Therapeutic Educational Consultant specializing in healing from relationship difficulties and traumatic events. I work alongside my clients closely through the therapeutic journey to assist the self-advocacy, compassion, and patience necessary for efficacy of treatment goals over time. Using a foundation of neuropsychology and systems theories, I tailor my counseling for each client/family from body-based practices, internal parts work, and reprocessing modalities. With an emphasis on best practice and informed sensitive care, I skillfully guide the process of deep change and long lasting transformation.

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.

I specialize in working with individuals who have suffered traumatic childhoods (sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, neglect, domestic violence) or traumatic experiences in adulthood and are in need of trauma-informed therapy. Symptoms include difficulty trusting others, feeling terminally alone, experiencing overwhelming emotions, a fear of abandonment or engulfment, experiencing flashbacks, feeling worried and anxious about bad things happening, struggling with body dysmorphia or disordered eating, engaging in self-harm, substance abuse issues, feelings of persistent hopelessness, suicidality, or feelings of unworthiness.

Your life looks great from the outside. You have a beautiful family, supportive friends, a fulfilling career, and a nice roof over your head. But something is missing. You love your kids so much and feel guilty for wanting more, but you can’t shake this feeling of dissatisfaction. You lay in bed at night, replaying all the life choices that got you to this point. You’ve always worked hard to do the right thing, so where did you go wrong? Or, what if your greatest fear is true, and there’s simply some critical defect in you that prevents you from being happy no matter what you do? You’re out of ideas – it feels so hopeless.

You have a calling to know yourself more completely, to make lasting changes in habitual pattens, to engage in the deep healing of unconscious unfinished business, and to integrate awakened insights fully into the body, into relationships, and into your life in the world. We get to know each other to build trust, identify areas for exploration, and then we dive. The therapeutic experience involves transformational epiphanies and the processing of hidden and stuck emotions. I gently challenge my clients to lean into uncomfortable places and build the tolerance for psycho-spiritual unfolding. See my website for more information.

Are you experiencing increased levels of stress, disharmony in your marriage, or a lack of connection at home or at work? I believe we are living in a most challenging time. My practice creates a safe space to share and reset with increased support, resource, and vision. I bring relational principles and expertise from my 38 years to build lives and relationships that thrive. I see couples through all stages. I offer services as a Consultant at sharlamacyconsulting.com I provide counsel for CEO Couples-and the workplace in order to increase leadership and team development. Together we can grow resilience, love, and hope.

I am an experienced clinician and am skilled at creating a safe, warm, empathic environment for my clients in which to heal and grow. I am a generalist with specialized knowledge in the areas of eating disorders, body image, relational issues, trauma recovery, EMDR, couples counseling, family of origin issues, anxiety, post traumatic stress, women's issues, parenting, and mindfulness and yoga as therapeutic endeavors. I work within my clients' multicultural lens and framework to establish safety and rapport. I include my clients in their treatment planning and process of therapy to create greater gains and a sense of mastery.

At Family and Elder Counseling Services by Windhorse Elder Care, we offer compassionate support through mindfulness-based individual and group therapy. We specialize in working with elders, their caregivers, and family members in their homes or assisted living facilities, in nature, and online. We empower you to navigate the complexities of transitioning into assisted living, cope with terminal diagnoses, find balance in caregiving, process grief & loss, and embrace the aging or dying process with grace and dignity.

Are anxious or depressed? Are you feeling overwhelmed and exhausted with parenting and family life? Have you experienced a loss of some kind? A loved one, a job, a home, your health, or any other loss. Telling your story can help you move through the pain and suffering to get to the other side.

Couples therapy: I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy. EFT leads a couple to get right to the heart of the problems that keep relationships unsatisfying and disconnected. The goal of EFT is to help you create safety and security in your relationship so that deep connection can grow from the practice of honesty and vulnerability. EFT has been found to be successful with about 75% of couples.

Are you ready to become the happiest, healthiest, most self-aware and authentic version of yourself? If so, reach out and join me as we embark on a powerful healing journey together. Healing can be isolating and fear provoking, but know that you are not alone. I am here to help guide you and let your soul shine. My purpose in life is to guide others in therapy so that they can feel full of light and joy, despite the heartaches of this human condition. My mission is to help you heal yourself. Everything is already within you. Sometimes we just need an external spark to light our flame.

I work with adult and teen individuals from a humanistic, somatic, mindfulness based perspective. It is my belief that the therapeutic relationship itself is a guiding force in the healing process and an essential component for clients to more deeply access themselves. In our time together, we will increase awareness around your relationship to self, relationship patterns with others, how you work to notice and process feelings, how you relate to past wounds and trauma and how you regulate through stressful times. Together we will increase your capacity to compassionately trust and come back to yourself over and over again.

As a relational therapist, I imagine you're here to transform the conflicts & hurt in your relationship/s into safe and secure spaces - spaces that offer true intimacy and a sense of meaning. I imagine you want a therapist who accesses intuition and asks pointed questions to get to the depth and heart of the matter; one who is sensitive, yet courageous and direct. In my practice, I provide therapy to intimate partnerships, adult families, and individuals. I help you fiercely and gently engage discomfort, access emotional truths, voice needs, navigate difference, repair ruptures, and move toward renewed and deepened connection.

I believe everyone has the ability to live a joyful life, have fulfilling relationships and experience wellness. I work with individuals and couples addressing challenges including: depression, anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, grief, disordered eating, low self esteem and more. I utilize practices of: PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couples Counseling), mindfulness, somatic/body centered, principles of trauma resolution (neurobiology and polyvagal theory), wilderness/nature therapy, Internal Family Systems (parts work), art therapy, Brainspotting and more in our work together.

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.

Whether by video or in the outdoors it's an honor to accompany individuals, couples, and families on journeys of growth and discovery through therapy. I am guide in the process, you are the expert of yourself and your experience. If you're not feeling expert, my approach draws out individuals' inner wisdom, and confidence. Working with the mind-body connection, trauma resolution, mindfulness, and the natural world, we are able to co-create new possibilities for living a more enlivened and fulfilling life. Neuroscience and attachment theory highly inform my work and I am ever expanding my knowledge and skill in order to best serve.

Adolescence and early adulthood holds a special place in my heart, because it is such ripe ground for discovery, yet many young people get stuck along the journey. I have worked with young people for over 10 years, who have struggled with social-anxiety and shyness, addiction, anxiety and panic attacks, depression, grief and loss issues, trauma, school issues, and complex family issues. While all of these can be horrific for the individual and families involved, the underlying resiliency present in each of these young people and families is the foundation that we build from in the healing process.

Parents seek Play Therapy and Parent Support sessions with me to help their child work through their behavioral challenges and improve their parent-child relationship. Play Therapy sessions help kids to express their feelings in regulated ways, promote self-confidence and autonomy, improve their relationship to themselves and others, support social-emotional learning, and work to embrace your child's natural essence helping them to live a full, authentic, and resilient life. I also offer counseling for Tweens & Teens (ages 11-15) through this complicated point of development, especially now in such a complicated world.

Struggling with identifying and asserting your needs? Or knowing what you want in your personal relationships, career, professional life? Feeling confused about who you are, where are you going and what you REALLY want? Feeling stuck? Unmotivated? Distracted and overwhelmed all at the same time? Having a hard time slowing down, feeling busy but unproductive, like you are not doing enough, or working hard enough, etc? Do you have an overly inense inner critic, that evaluates and judges every single thing you do? Longing for some time to pause, but also feeling deep inside fear of stopping?