Trauma-Informed Therapy in Boulder, Colorado
RECLAIM YOUR PEACE
Through focused therapy for trauma, depression, anxiety, and big life changes, I help you unhook from self-limiting patterns and beliefs, so you can finally be confident and clear instead of feeling stuck and overwhelmed.
When you feel anxious, depressed, or overwhelmed by grief and change, it’s hard to imagine any other option—but with the right support, there can be.
I offer insightful, action-oriented therapy that helps you decrease your most challenging symptoms, come home to yourself, and create sustainable change—so you can live from a place of clarity, confidence, and calm.
You’ve come to the right place if…
You’re overwhelmed a lot of the time and it’s interfering with your life
You know something needs to change, but avoidance and fear are holding you back
You want to make a decision, make that commitment, or hold that boundary but there’s too much guilt or shame
You’re seeking effective ways to cool down your triggers in important relationships
You sense that trauma has too much agency over your life and are ready to find healing
Hi, I’m Alexa—Relational Trauma Therapist in Boulder, CO
If you’re longing to feel seen, met, and understood in all the layers of their lived experiences...I get it. Together we’ll meet your healing and personal growth goals with compassionate reflection and action, so that you can finally come home to yourself and move forward in your life.
Our work together is collaborative and grounded. I provide a warm, accepting space where you can explore what’s coming up without judgment. We’ll look at deeper patterns that may be keeping you stuck—and also explore the tools, practices, and choices that can move you forward in direct, sustainable, real ways.
If you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, grief, or trauma, you probably don’t need yet another explanation for the why of it all—but you may want support that can help you make real change.
(In fact, you likely have a lot of self awareness that’s come in handy in many parts of your life.) Together, we can pair that superpower insight with approaches tailored to your unique nervous system to find a path toward real healing. I take a warm, grounded, healing-at-the-root approach to therapy so you can reclaim your joy and move forward with confidence.
How To Get Started
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1. Reach Out
You can contact me here so I can answer questions about getting started, session availability, or what you are seeking support with.
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2. Book a Call
We’ll schedule a free, 20-minute introductory call so we can chat about your hopes and needs for therapy and confirm we are a good fit.
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3. Start Sessions
Once we get to know each other a bit on the intro call, we’ll set up sessions in person or online and start moving toward reclaiming that peace.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin
Types of Therapy
I draw from practices and modalities that are person-centered, relational, and trauma-informed so that you feel met and supported in meaningful ways.
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy explores how beliefs (often unconscious) and past experiences inform how we think, feel, and act in the present.
Sometimes just recognizing these beliefs can break our world open in the most healing ways. Oftentimes, more sustained healing means meeting what we discover with compassion and understanding so that core wounds and negative beliefs no longer rule our lives.
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Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful technique that involves rhythmic, bilateral motion to engage both hemispheres of the brain through bilateral stimulation. This process helps us access the limbic system, where trauma is stored, allowing us to reprocess distressing memories that may be keeping us stuck in cycles of fear, pain, or self-protection.
EMDR is well-known for supporting people in reprocessing trauma so that they can feel free from its distressing lingering impacts. Something that we often say in EMDR is “the past is in the present,” meaning past distressing experiences that are stored in the nervous system tend to direct our present beliefs, emotions, thoughts, and actions. EMDR does not change the past, but it can liberate us from the negative residual impacts the past may be having on present day relationships, trauma triggers, and negative core beliefs.
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Somatic practices include things like breathwork, attuning to sensation and emotion, and philosophies of body-mind-emotion rooted in yoga therapy, Buddhist psychology, and contemporary psychosomatic research.
Trauma in particular is stored in the nervous system; somatic practices intervene where trauma is stuck to help get us free.
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Compassion for self and others is like a balm to a wound: it offers soothing from emotional and psychological pain and inflammation that gives us the space to actually work on our healing. Compassion is a skill that can be trained, deepened, and developed across a lifetime and a crucial companion in the therapy process.
Acceptance doesn’t mean condoning everything that is happening (or that has happened). It means acknowledging, recognizing, and learning how to be in skillful relationship with what we can and can’t control so that we can have more agency in the response.Learning how to commit to our values regardless of what is happening can be life-changing.
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Offerings for therapy intensives are forthcoming.
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