Counseling That Makes Room for Your Whole Experience
How I Work
When life has been disrupted by serious illness, medical crisis, or loss, it can be difficult to know what you need, or even where to begin.
You may be trying to make sense of what happened, manage the demands of the present, or recognize yourself in a life that feels different from the one you knew.
My approach to counseling begins with curiosity about your experience, respect for what you've lived through, and the understanding that meaningful change isn’t the same thing as “getting over” a life-changing event or “getting back to” a former self.
Together, we create space to understand what you're living with today, reconnect with what matters to you now, and discover greater freedom in how you respond to life right here.
Making More Room for Life
A health crisis or medical emergency dominates your life. It crowds out all other plans and priorities.
Your life-threatening illness or injury – cancer survivorship, heart attack, organ transplant, severe accident, or medical trauma – required all of your time, energy, and psychological space, just to survive.
Reorienting into life involves establishing a new balance with the mental, emotional, existential space available to you now.
Our work together is about shifting your relationship with what you're feeling and believing, so that difficult experiences no longer occupy all of your available capacity.
Over time, our work may help you:
Feel more settled and present, even when circumstances remain uncertain.
Recognize emotions without feeling compelled to act on every impulse.
Understand how illness, loss, and change have affected your sense of self.
Reconnect with values, relationships, and experiences that matter to you.
Find greater freedom to make choices that reflect who you are and what you need.
Make room for grief, hope, uncertainty, and possibility to coexist.
Our aim in counseling steers around traditional ideas of “recovery.” Instead, our goal is for you to have more skills, comfort, and capacity for the entirety of your life, exactly as it is now.
More of life becoming available to you. More of you becoming available to life.
Medical Experiences Affect More Than the Body
Serious illness changes many parts of life at once.
Physical changes influence emotions. Uncertainty reshapes relationships. Changes in independence, responsibilities, or abilities can challenge your sense of identity and what matters most.
Rather than treating these experiences as separate problems, we pay attention to how they influence one another. We begin sessions with what feels most important today, and follow the connections that emerge.
BODY
How your physical experience influences your sense of comfort, safety, energy, and connection with yourself.
MIND
The emotions, thoughts, memories, worries, and interpretations that shape how you experience what is happening.
RELATIONSHIPS
How changes in health affect connection, communication, boundaries, roles, and the experience of giving or receiving support.
MEANING
How your experiences influence identity, values, priorities, beliefs, and your understanding of what makes life meaningful.
A Collaborative Approach
Counseling with me is a conversation, but it is also an opportunity to notice, explore, and experience yourself differently. Maybe for the very first time.
Depending on what you're navigating, our work may involve:
Slowing down and noticing. Paying attention to thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and familiar responses with greater awareness and less judgment.
Making sense of your experience. Exploring the meanings you've made of what has happened, including beliefs about yourself, your relationships, and your future.
Reconnecting with yourself. Recognizing the qualities, values, and ways of being that remain meaningful to you, even when important parts of your life have changed.
Finding room for choice. Discovering where you have influence, where you may need support, and how to respond in ways that reflect what matters to you.
Making space for what is difficult. Developing the capacity to experience grief, fear, anger, uncertainty, or hope without needing to resolve or dismiss those feelings immediately.
We work at a pace that respects both your circumstances and your capacity. There may be times for reflection, times for practical problem-solving, and times when simply noticing what is happening is the meaningful work.
What To Expect
Your sessions are a space where you can be honest and authentic.
You don't have to be positive. You don’t need to have the right words. You don't need to protect me from your emotions.
Some visits are filled with conversation, others with silence.
Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry.
Sometimes we simply make space for what has been too heavy to carry alone.
Together we'll move at your pace, exploring what matters most to you and discovering ways to live with greater clarity, courage, and compassion. No matter the road ahead.
My work draws from mindfulness-based and somatic approaches, narrative therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Meaning Centered Psychotherapy (MCP), and existential counseling. These approaches inform our conversations, while no single technique determines what your experience should look like.
Therapy With Direction & Sensitivity
I approach our work in “chapters” of approximately three months. This gives us time to understand what brings you to counseling, to explore the areas in your life that are asking for the most attention, and to notice how our work together has created changes.
Beginning: Understanding Where You Are
We start by getting to know your unique circumstances, what you've lived through and its impacts, and what feels most important to address right now.
Together, we identify what you hope counseling can make possible.
Exploring: Creating More Room
As our work develops, we pay attention to the patterns, emotions, meanings, relationships, and choices that shape your experience.
This may involve developing new ways of relating to distress, questioning old identities, prioritizing what matters, or experimenting with different responses.
Reflecting: Recognizing What Has Changed
At approximately three months, we pause to reflect.
What feels different now? What remains difficult? What has become clearer? What might deserve our attention next?
We may decide to continue counseling, shift our focus, meet less frequently, or conclude our work.
There is no expectation that everything will be resolved within three months. The purpose of this structure is to give our work focus and direction while remaining sensitive to the realities of your time, energy, and finances.
Location & Rates
LOCATION
I provide in-person and telehealth counseling.
My office is located at 6059 S. Quebec St., Suite 200, Centennial, CO 80111.
Virtual counseling sessions are available to residents statewide in Colorado.
SESSION LENGTH
Counseling sessions are 55 minutes, allowing time for check-in, conversation, and wrap-up.
SESSION RATES
I offer a sliding-scale rate of $100–$140 per 55-minute session. During our initial consultation we will determine your rate based on needs and session frequency (weekly or bi-weekly sessions).
INSURANCE & PAYMENT
I am a private-pay provider and do not accept insurance.
You Don't Have to See the Whole Path
It’s ok if you recognize that something in your life has drastically changed, but don’t understand exactly what needs to happen next.
Counseling offers a place to begin exploring those changes, uncovering what is now meaningful to you, and considering how you want to move forward.
If you're wondering whether my approach might be helpful, I invite you to begin with a conversation.
