Individual Therapy in Denver, CO

While individual therapy is as unique as the person sitting across from me, there are common themes at the center of the work, such as anxiety that won't quiet down, depressive symptoms that have thrown a drab lens on life, the complicated grief of a breakup or a loss — including anticipated loss that seems to be happening in slow motion, old patterns that keep resurfacing in new places, or just a vague sense of being stuck.

AEDP (or Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, whew!), also attachment-informed, is my foundational model for working with individuals. Much of what brings people into therapy connects to how we learned, early on, to get our needs met and protect ourselves. Though that’s not the whole story for every client, it's almost always part of it. We work on the present-day symptoms directly, and we may also look underneath at the patterns driving them so the change you’re making actually holds.

What makes AEDP unique from typical talk therapy is its emphasis on experience. While analysis and intellectual insight have a rightful place in therapy, they’re also recognized as processes that can sometimes move us away from our feelings. It’s understandable why so many of us might keep our distance, consciously or not…emotions can be awkward, uncomfortable, or downright painful. But emotional experience is where real change happens, so we move toward it at a pace that accounts for your nervous system.

Being able to slow down in the presence of a safe other, bring mindful gentle curiosity to parts of our experience that tend to get overlooked or denied, and then tend to them with care is a transformational process. It can be enlightening, confusing, weird, funny, joyful, relieving and more. Learning how to do it takes trust, connection, patience, and practice. So that is what we build, together.

I work with adult individuals in Denver, with limited availability on Wednesdays for clients based in Lafayette, as well as virtually across Colorado.