Alex (she/hers) is a graduate student in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University. After 20 years of practicing law, and earning an M.B.A. along the way, she gave herself permission to begin again. Now she is training as a psychotherapist who believes in each individual’s innate wisdom and unquenchable inner drive to heal. Having studied with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Alex brings optimism, a commitment to social justice, and an awareness of privilege and systems of oppression to her practice of psychotherapy. Alex has worked with first through sixth graders as a volunteer for Girls Inc. of Metro Denver, and she currently facilitates support groups as a volunteer for the Eating Disorder Foundation. She is training to become an accredited Synergetic Play Therapist. Alex works with children and adults in a strengths-based, client-centered approach to a wide range of issues, including: life transitions; eating disorders; trauma, including trauma that results from living in a culture that marginalizes specific identities and social locations; challenges in the workplace; career and educational changes; grief and loss; and relationships.

Holly is a registered psychotherapist. She has been training as a therapist at Naropa University since 2017. Her style is rooted in Gestalt therapy with an emphasis on mindfulness and body centered techniques. Her authenticity and ability to be present with another person’s experience helps her to create a safe and non-judgmental space for clients. She enjoys working with both individuals and couples. Before pursuing the field of therapy, Holly worked as a special education teacher for seven years with children with learning and behavioral needs. In addition, Holly is also a mother of two young children.

Rex has worked from a relational approach with domestic violence survivors and individuals with attachment trauma. Having trained at Naropa University and worked in domestic violence advocacy, he strives to be multiculturally sensitive, strength-based, and client-centered. He approaches depression, anxiety, and emotional crisis with compassion and acceptance. With experience in the social justice scope, he brings the complexities of culture, systems, and identities into personal relationship impacts. Fundamentally, finding ease in relationships takes tenderness and understanding. It is possible for any of us to find the wellness we are seeking. Rex welcomes anyone who wants to deepen relationships with self and others.

Eric (he/him/his) offers a body-centered approach foundational in the modality of Gestalt Therapy with a focus on Mindfulness techniques. Eric creates a therapeutic container of safety, presence, and trust to allow for transformation to happen. Before Eric’s pursuit into therapy, he spent the last 25 years working as a professional international mountaineering guide. Eric contributes his safety and success in the mountains to the deep interpersonal relationships he cultivated with his participants. This high level of awareness continues within Eric’s therapeutic practice, and it offers the participant a unique experience of navigating their journey of self- discovery with confidence. Eric is a registered psychotherapist in Colorado and specializes in his practice with individuals, couples, teens, and child populations. He offers a developmental trauma-informed care approach that can support the participant suffering from depression, anxiety, and any other challenging impasses to one’s life.

Niccole is a graduate student in Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology program. Her life experiences have brought her to the therapeutic path. She approaches therapy from a place of compassion and understanding for the human experience.  Her aim is to be with clients in whatever state(s) they may be in or bring into each session.  She understands clients are uniquely their own being.  Allowing her to approach each client from their individual experience, which may require approaching each therapeutic relationship differently.

Her passion and drive to be with others in their joys and suffering stems from an extensive background in trauma.  She hopes to show her clients they do not have to face whatever has brought them to therapy alone. Her time at Naropa has allowed her to uncover one of the most effective therapeutic techniques, learning to be present with what is arising in the moment.   Learning just to be has opened her up to being present with others during their therapeutic journey.

Jason is an MA candidate in Somatic Counseling at Naropa University with a concentration in Body Psychotherapy. Jason has a warm presence and takes a trauma-informed relational approach to therapy with a focus on treatment of PTSD, psychoneuroimmunology, and the interpersonal neurobiology of relationships.

Through the lens of body psychotherapy we’ll explore how physical and emotional trauma are held within both body and mind, and work with a variety of approaches to support nervous system and emotional regulation. Developments within the field of neuroscience provide evidence to support the deep connection between body and mind that can be expressed in anxiety, depression, immune system dysfunction, medical issues, and addiction. Prior to pursuing graduate work at Naropa University, Jason earned an MA in instructional design & technology from the University of Iowa, as well as a BA in psychology and sociology, and built an extensive career in higher education and corporate training development. In addition to pursuing his studies at Naropa, Jason is currently completing an International Coach Federation coaching certification program in mindfulness, wellness, and somatic coaching. When not working, Jason might be found on the ski slopes, biking Colorado roads and trails, or practicing the healing martial art of Qigong.

Sarah helps her clients to find their inherent wisdom and agency through integrative and body centered therapies. Sarah’s work is based on building strong relationships with clients – through authenticity, presence and synergistic connection. She is adept at working with issues such as spiritual development, personal growth, grief and loss and life transition, anxiety, depression, and relationship challenges. Also serving as a life coach since 2018 and a mentor for teens and adults in wilderness settings since 2000, Sarah supports a wide variety of clients through a nature-based approach. Sarah helps her clients to find meaning in challenging circumstances and to seek the hidden values and gifts that help them thrive. Sarah is a registered psychotherapist working with eclectic modalities including depth psychology and mindfulness based transpersonal counseling. She offers holistic, trauma informed care for teens, adults and couples.

Alejandra (she/hers) is genuinely curious about humanness; what creates, what destroys, what connects, what mystifies. She brings a strong yet gentle presence, an intention to stay with whatever is arising for you, an environment where you can move and play with your sense of courage, with your natural ability to lovingly be in relationship with self and others. She believes that an integral process of transformation and self-care requires more than talk therapy. We need to become familiar with the realms of feelings and sensations in order to facilitate recovery. We naturally gravitate toward healing; our bodies are wired that way. With the right, resources, level of commitment, personal responsibility, and amount of support, recovering can be as natural as being. She is trained in PACT and Motivational Interviewing. She brings a multiculturally sensitive, social justice oriented and client- centered approach to her work. Ale has been training in contemplative practices for over a decade and working as a classical yoga instructor for almost seven years, she is a regular meditator and a meditation instructor- certified by Naropa University. Through her years of experience, she has come to realize that body and mind are essentially joined together, thus our painful/traumatic experiences (as well as any other experience) touch them both. Emotions inhabit the body and are felt through the nervous system. Interventions such as healthy processing, returning to self-trust and many variations of nervous system regulation are part of her sessions. We are relational beings in a relational Universe. The ways we associate with ourselves, others and the environment are essential for our psycho-spiritual well being. Wherever you are, it is welcomed here and we can move through it together.