My Approach to Helping

More Info About My Practice

My practice is a LBGTQ safe space and LBGTQ affirmative. I have experience helping people who identify as transgender to navigate the various aspects of transition with dignity, compassion, and respect.

I accept private pay (including Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express, checks, and cash), ESI Group EAP, HSA cards, and Victim's Compensation in Colorado.

How Psychotherapy Can Help

Many issues require a lot of hard work to resolve and are too big for any person to resolve alone. A trained and experienced therapist can help with the most efficient and effective methods to resolution while under the protection of confidentiality. With couples, it can help to have an objective third party treat the relationship without blame of either partner. By approaching issues from this perspective, both partners can have their needs and feelings understood.

What I Say to People Concerned about the Therapy Process

All of us grow up with "raw spots" from painful experiences - many that were unintended by people who participated in them. Left untreated, the raw spots lie in wait until they get touched on in our adult relationships - personal and sometimes professional ones. Part of being human often makes it harder to see our own raw spots than to see other's, which is why therapists go to their own therapy, too. You might be surprised how many of these early experiences send unintended messages that your feelings don't matter, and you'd better do something with them that doesn't include expressing them. The "what" you learned to do with them can take many forms - using anger to get needs met in the moment, abusing substances, focusing on everyone else's needs and never your own, terminal ambivalence, and on and on. If this applies, we work on identifying the ways you avoid your own emotions and inviting your feelings, a powerful part of the human psyche that, in essence, is our internal GPS.

Therapy can sometimes feel like the emotional gym and I am there to spot you. Your nervous system sets our pace, and we lift the emotional weight you can handle at any given session. Otherwise, therapy won't feel good overall and you'll likely start looking for excuses to quit. It's a self-loving thing to respect the pace you need, and this will be part of our conversations throughout the process.

My Blog Posts

• Technology to Support Therapy: 4 Mental Health Apps Reviewed
• Office Affairs: When a Workplace Friendship Crosses the Line
• Embracing Your Parts: Who Do You Need with You?
• How to Keep Gridlock from Stopping Your Relationship Cold
• Forgive for Your Own Good: Getting Past Your Grievances
• Owning Your Apology: Name It, Claim It, and Do It Now
• 5 Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Family at Holidays
• Is It Domestic Violence If I Am Not Being Hit?
• Why the First Few Minutes with Your Partner Today Are Crucial
• Using EMDR to Find Your ‘Safe Place’ in Trauma Recovery
• Shootings, Attacks, and Disasters: How EMDR Therapy Can Help