Denver Mindfulness-Based Counseling

Mindfulness-based counseling is a powerful, synergistic therapy that combines Western and Buddhist psychology and the practice of mindfulness. With over 20 years of experience, I offer you a space where you can discover an approach to yourself and your life that brings you more peace and joy. You learn to let go of self-limiting patterns, like worry, through insight-building conversations, experiential exercises, and skills training. Mindfulness-based counseling gives you space to create and reinforce healthier patterns that are based in self-compassion and lead to deeper happiness. You also have space to determine where you want your life to go and how to answer the call of your potential.

I work with you to balance your existential or spiritual needs with your practical needs. It’s important to follow your heart, but it’s also essential to pay the bills. Therapy with me acknowledges your challenges as an opportunity to grow. I see each challenge not as a problem but as a part of your larger journey.

I use traditional Western techniques, like cognitive therapy. I also offer a space where you can engage in experiential healing. Having a new experience through a meditation exercise or intuitive feedback allows you to heal in ways that talking can’t. The values work we do helps you get clear on what you truly want so you can make changes in yourself or your life that allow you to have the vitality needed to achieve your goals and live your life to the fullest.

What Is Mindfulness and What Does It Do?

Mindfulness is loving awareness of what is happening in your experience right now. It’s a meditation practice and philosophy that cultivates an open and relaxed mindset toward yourself and your life. Mindfulness enables you to see how your mind works so you can respond to yourself skillfully. Skillful responding enables you to thrive. Decades of scientific studies tell us that mindfulness helps reduce stress because it allows us to be less reactive and more proactive with life’s challenges. We get better at letting go and focusing our attention. Mindfulness also helps us develop a space between our triggers and our responses to them.

What is Your Background in Mindfulness?

It’s a joy to teach mindfulness to my clients. I have been teaching, practicing, and studying mindfulness for nearly 30 years. I have over 100 days of silent mindfulness retreat experience. I completed the Integrated Study and Practice Program at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. I am also a graduate of the Mindfulness and Psychotherapy Certificate Program through the Institute of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy. I currently serve as a Sangha guide (meditation coach) for the Boulder Insight Meditation Community.