Something brought you here.
That’s enough to start.
I'm a somatic and relational trauma therapist working with adults across Colorado, by telehealth.
The symptom is rarely the whole story
Relationships that keep catching fire. Not feeling at home in your own body. A depression that won't lift, or panic that rises out of nowhere. Performing to win love or prove your worth, then collapsing when it isn't enough. Self-sabotage you can't shake.
And underneath all of it, one quiet conviction that something is wrong with you.
There is nothing wrong with you.
What you live with are not defects. They are the intelligent responses of someone who survived something. Maybe something that's clear to you. Maybe something so old or so quiet you never counted it as anything.
What you did to survive made sense. It may have even kept you alive. The trouble is, those responses outlived their purpose, and now they get in the way of the life you actually want.
This work goes to where those patterns began. Not to manage them, but to reach what set them in motion, because that is what finally lets them rest. We go there together, at your pace.
And the one we find underneath, beneath everything you have carried, was never the broken thing you took yourself to be. That one was here before any of it. Still intact. Still yours. Closer than you think.
How I work
Over the years, I've come realize that much of what we struggle with has roots in trauma. From my perspective, it isn't about what's wrong with you, but what happened to you. More precisely, what you've done with what happened to you. I've intentionally trained in the following modalities to go to the roots, where real change is possible. Which ones we use, and when, is something we decide together.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
Developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this evidence-based approach shifts the focus from what's wrong to what's possible. It works for almost any client or concern, and was designed from the start to bring positive results quickly. This is the base, where we decide together what to work on next..
Somatic Experiencing (SE)
Developed by Peter Levine. Trauma impacts your ability to feel good in your own skin. SE frees the energy stuck in the body from incomplete survival responses. I weave it into the other approaches I use, rather than as a standalone method.
Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM)
Developed by Laurence Heller. Focuses specifically on complex and developmental trauma. Works in the present, and at depth, through the therapeutic relationship. It explores the identity and survival patterns that formed early, without endlessly re-living the past. (I am currently training in this modality, with certification pending).
Rates
Individual therapy is $175 for a 55-minute session.
A limited number of reduced-rate spots are available when cost is a barrier. If that's you, mention it during our consultation and we'll see what's possible.
Do I need a diagnosis?
Only if you want one.
Insurance and medication require a diagnosis. But I don't bill insurance, so with me it's optional.
Some people find a diagnosis genuinely useful. Others would rather not have one. Here, it's your choice.