Everyone can benefit from therapy: it can be helpful in crisis, in times of transition, and even in the moments in between when we feel pretty good. Therapy can help you untangle thoughts, behaviors and perceptions and allow you to show up in the world as the best version of yourself.

Therapy is also effective for people who have a mental health diagnosis but have not found success in other care settings. 

No matter your situation, together, we can create a treatment plan that helps you feel supported, heard and in control of your mental health.

You may be seeking help not knowing entirely what you want to work on, perhaps just feeling like you are stuck. You may have a specific trauma or set of negative beliefs you want to work through. Whatever your situation, I am happy to come along on your healing journey. I just ask that you commit to the work, remain curious and communicate with me as best you can.

I will offer you support, validation and a safe place to explore your most difficult feelings and experiences. I may also gently challenge you or offer a different perspective. I will also help you identify your goals for therapy, to ensure we are both clear about what you are working on and how therapy is benefitting you.

My goal for our work together is to help you increase your understanding of yourself, develop insights about your thoughts and behaviors, and create substantive changes that will benefit you the rest of your life.

I typically recommend that clients come at regular intervals (every week or every other week) in the beginning of treatment to build trust and a foundation for the work.

As you progress towards your goals you may want to space out therapy and eventually come as needed. I strive to be aware of your schedule and resources to make therapy as effective for you as possible. 

A big part of success in therapy is the feeling like you “click” with your therapist. You should feel safe and like your therapist understands you. I hope that we will be a fit and try my best to connect with all of my clients, but if we are not it is perfectly okay!

Therapy is about you, not about me. I’m happy to connect you with other therapists in the area who may be a better fit. I also encourage you to let me know if I ever say or do something that rubs you the wrong way. Disappointment is inevitable in any relationship but a goal of therapy is to practice working through difficult emotions together. 

I do not accept insurance at this time. Insurance reimbursement is based on a model of treatment that emphasizes diagnosis and not overall growth and mental wellbeing. Insurance also tries to dictate the terms of the therapy including how often and for how long you can be seen by your provider which can impede treatment. 

The benefits of not using insurance is that you won’t have a diagnosis permanently attached to your health record. Your records are protected: all of your personal information cannot be obtained by the insurance company or other healthcare entities without your consent. It also means that your care is not dictated by the insurance company but by our collaborative treatment goals. 

I will gladly provide you with documentation for out-of-network benefits but please note that superbills require a mental health diagnosis.

I reserve a small number of slots in my practice to offer at a reduced cost. Please contact me for consideration prior to your appointment.

Yes! I offer telehealth through a secure and confidential online platform to all Colorado residents. Please contact me to learn more.

Trauma and difficult life experiences can keep us trapped in an endless loop of pain, anxiety, anger and self-doubt. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an evidenced-based treatment that helps people recover from traumatc experiences by reprogramming their mind’s response to triggers and negatively stored information. EMDR works by using rapid eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation to help the brain process traumatic memories. Bi-lateral stimulation connects the neural pathways that held the traumatic information to neural pathways that have the present and adaptive information in the brain, hence giving the brain the information it needs to desensitize and reprocess. Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR therapy result not so much from the therapist’s interpretations, but from the client’s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes.

Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. One study showed up to 90% of single-trauma victims no longer have PTSD after only 3 90-minute sessions. Another study found that 100% of single-trauma victims and 77% of multiple trauma victims no longer were diagnosed with PTSD after only six 50-minute sessions.

EMDR is now used to treat more than just trauma; it treats anxiety, depression, anger issues, chronic pain, addictions etc. After successful treatment with EMDR therapy emotional distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reconstructed, and physiological arousal is reduced. The result is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the experiences that once kept them stuck.

SSP is based in Polyvagal Theory. According to this theory, a nervous system that constantly feels unsafe, such as when it experiences trauma, is likely to become trapped in this stressed state. The Safe and Sound Protocol is based around listening sessions, where you receive specially filtered music designed to stimulate the vagus nerve and send cues of safety to the nervous system. This enhances your ability to feel safe and connected - or get “unstuck” from the stressed state. It is a bit like physical therapy for your ear muscles: they relax, you relax. The effect is long-lasting: after just five hours of listening, you can expect to feel more calm, balanced, resilient and connected.

While talk therapy can be an effective tool to process thoughts and behaviors at a conscious level, often our patterns and responses exist in parts of the brain that are non-verbal; that’s to say, they are more readily accessed using physical or emotional sensations, rather than words. There is an element of verbalizing in EMDR, particularly in the earliest sessions, but the rewiring of neural circuits - and diminishing of triggered reactions - happens as a result bilateral stimuli that actively change the brain’s habituated responses.