Frequently Asked Questions

I am located on Gunpark Drive in Gunbarrel, just outside of Boulder. If traveling to my office is an issue I am also happy to meet via video call.

6666 Gunpark Drive, Suite 200 Boulder, CO 80301

I’m glad you asked. During a consultation, I will ask you a little bit about why you are seeking therapy, ask some questions about your history with this struggle, and help you clarify your vision of what you want in the future.

After talking about all these things, I’ll let you know if I can help you with what you’re looking for. If I can’t help you, I’ll point you in the direction of some people who might be a better fit for you.

First, thanks for even asking the question. Therapy deals with a lot of very personal details. Often the more powerful the thing we want to work on is, the more afraid we can be of letting someone else know about it.

If it feels like too much to talk about it directly, feel free to reach out and let me know that you want to work on something that you are afraid to talk about. I will not push you into anything you don’t want to do, and we can take our time learning about the fear first. As you discover more about what’s holding you back, I am sure there will come a time when you will feel ready to talk about the hard things more openly.

When I first started in private practice I accepted a variety of insurance plans, but at this point I only accept private pay. I have found that the additional freedom that comes from not having to work within an insurance company’s parameters is of greater overall benefit to my clients. 

That said, I am happy to provide clients with Superbills for our sessions together. Contact your insurance provider to discuss “Out-of-Network” benefits, and you may be able to submit Superbills that are eligible for reimbursement directly to your insurance company. 

When people hear Wilderness Therapy, they tend to think of boot camp conditions in some dusty Utah desert, where you get dirty, stay dirty, and do a little work on yourself along the way.

Though this is certainly where wilderness therapy has its roots, the way you would see it in my practice looks VERY different. If you decide you want wilderness-focused sessions, we will meet outside at a natural location near my office. I will then teach you how you can use the natural world to connect with the inner wisdom contained within your struggles. The best part about this kind of therapy is that these are techniques you can take with you and use whenever you find yourself out in nature.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. What does that mean? It’s a technique discovered by Francine Shapiro that has a lot of research backing up its ability to help people work through traumatic experiences.

Though EMDR was originally focused on eye movement (hence the name), it has broadened out to include a variety of techniques in which you stimulate one side of the body and then the other. This can look like tapping on your hands or knees, using buzzers that you hold onto, or moving your eyes back and forth. When this is paired with traumatic memory experiences, we can effectively teach your nervous system how to let go of the emotional memory, file the experience into typical long-term memory, and give you a greater sense of freedom and relaxation in your life.

Hakomi is a type of therapy that was created by Ron Kurtz and is primarily focused on helping a person connect with their body to understand their experience.

In a typical session, I will help you explore the direct understanding of your discomfort (the tightness in your chest, the butterflies in your stomach, the pressure in your head, etc.). Through this studying, we can begin to discover new experiences and possibilities. We get to uncover some of the unconscious belief operating behind the scenes of your discomfort and recognize some long-held patterns that might be at play.

A common remark after an intense Hakomi session is something like, “I had no idea this pressure was about that!”

Fortunately for you, a lot of our early sessions will have more talking as I teach you more about how experiential therapy works and answer your questions along the way.

If you’re interested in creating an intimate relationship with yourself, understanding your core experiences, and discovering whole new ways of being, then experiential therapy is for you.

If you would prefer sessions based on dissecting your problems, talking through solutions, and following through on lots of homework, then I’m not the therapist for you. You will likely have better luck looking up someone who specializes in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).

The letters describe some of my qualifications. The MA stands for a master’s degree in Counseling and the LPC means I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado. I am also a CHT, Certified Hakomi Therapist, but at a certain point I need to remember that I’m a person and not an alphabet.