Debra Azorsky, MA, LPC
MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa University, 2002
Boulder Center for Sexual Health
2760 29^th Street, Suite 2C, Boulder, CO 80301
303-444-1697
deb@bouldercenterforsexualhealth.com

licensed professional counselor, certified gestalt therapist, certified sex addiction therapist (Level 1)

Education: MA, transpersonal counseling psychology, Naropa University, 2002; Gestalt Institute of the Rockies, certified gestalt therapist, 2002; certified sex addiction Ttherapist, Level 1, Dr. Patrick Carnes and the Meadows, 2003;  BA, Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University, 1999; certified massage therapist, Boulder College of Massage Therapy, 1991. Background/Experience: 4 years experience as a psychotherapist (extensive experience with Naropa staff and students), 10 years experience working with individuals and families in the HIV/AIDS community; 4 years experience teaching Human Sexuality at Naropa University.

Debra specializes in counseling individuals and couples who are questioning, struggling and concerned with sexual issues. She works with all sexual minorities (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, pan, BDSM, polyamory) as well as the heterosexual population. The issues range from female and male sexual dysfunctions, sexual orientation concerns, alternative sexual lifestyles, gender identity issues, healing sexuality in the aftermath of sexual abuse, sexual assault and rekindling sexual desire in couples and individuals to enhance sensual and sexual intimacy. Through diverse psychotherapeutic modalities, such as Gestalt, transpersonal, body-centered psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral techniques, she helps her clients awaken and heal from their sexual challenges. Debra offers her clients an opportunity to explore and discuss sexual concerns, which may have gone unexpressed for many years, and to understand how sexual beliefs, attitudes and behaviors can limit you from a fulfilling sexual life, regardless of whether you are single or in a relationship.

She works with many Naropa students, both graduate (TCP Counseling and Wilderness Therapy concentrations, MACP, MFA Writing & Poetics) and undergraduate. Debra teaches Human Sexuality at Naropa and continues to study sexology at a postgraduate level. Upcoming groups this fall include: women’s sexuality group: 8wk group focusing on enhancing women’s sexuality, women’s pelvic pain support group—an ongoing group for women who suffer with IC, Vulvodynia, Vulvar Vestibulitis, Dyspareunia.

James L. Bell, MA, LPC, CAC III
255 Canyon Boulevard, Suite 200B, Boulder, CO 80306
303-444-0138; cell: 720-327-0079; fax: 303-443-1292
JBell@jamesbellmalpc.com

licensed professional counselor; approved clinical supervisor;
certified addictions counselor III; ADAD-approved trainer

Let’s face it: living equals change and transition! In every transition, doors open and doors close. Because the only thing that does not change is the reality of change itself, we are constantly in transition. Change and transition, unfortunately, can sometimes create pain and suffering. Low self-esteem, depression, anxiety and substance abuse can result. However, while change is inevitable, pain and suffering are not. When we engage with transition deliberately, on purpose, there exists the opportunity for growth, compassion and success.

James's mission is a simple one: he helps families and individuals get beneath the fears, difficulties and struggles, to find their kind hearts and sane minds. He provides opportunities for families and individuals to connect to their inherent basic goodness and promote behaviors that reinforce their natural inclinations to provide for themselves meaningful, interdependent lives.

James L. Bell, MA, LPC, CAC III, has practiced in the field of mental health since 1989, specializing in the integration of spiritual, psychotherapeutic and clinical issues. James provides counseling to families, couples and individuals on a variety of concerns such as substance abuse; mood disorders; diversity and multicultural affairs; career, education and vocation; gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, and queer issues; and terminal illnesses. Having attained advance training in supervision, James also provides clinical supervision consultation, mentor and business coaching for psychotherapists. In 2006, he was selected by the Colorado Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT) for the Supervisor of the Year Award. He is currently chair of the CAMFT Public Relations Committee. James has been a teaching assistant in the Contemplative Psychology program at Naropa University. An ADAD-approved trainer, James is on the faculty of the Colorado School for Family Therapy. 

Professional Counseling for Teenagers, Young Adults, Adults, Families and Couples.
Also providing: Supervision, Consultation, Mentoring and Business Coaching

Jim Bowen, MA LPC
MA, Counseling Psychology, University of Colorado, 1992
1800 30th Street, Suite 217B, Boulder, Colorado  80301
303-534-8717
jimbowen@boulderdenvertherapy.com
www.boulderdenvertherapy.com

licensed professional counselor
certified integrative body psychotherapist

Relationships can be painful. In 1974 I was a first-year student at CU in Boulder. I felt I had kept it together pretty well, all things considered. Well, I was fooling myself, because I wasn’t studying and my relationships were not going well. I remember the day I walked in to Wardenburg and talked to a counselor about what I’d been through. Beforehand I felt reactive, on "auto-pilot," resentful and withdrawn. Walking out of there, I felt more free to be myself, more trusting of people, eager to get on with being myself and relating. Admit I fall apart! This may have been the hardest thing I’ve done in my life. I’m so grateful I did. Counseling taught me how I could put myself back together, that people are resilient and able to bounce back.

It was the beginning of a spiritual approach to my life that has continued to this day. Years of meditation, counselor training in sexuality enhancement, becoming a step-parent; all have played a part in being of service in alive, energetic and meaningful ways.

The office is near 30th and Arapahoe. You are invited to contact me for your consultation.

Education: MA, counseling psychology, University of Colorado, 1992. Integrative Body Psychotherapy Certification, 1995. Licensed Professional Counselor, 1997.

Professional Interests / Specialties

• Combining aliveness, warmth, humor and compassion
• Body-centered awareness of healthy relationship boundaries
• Self-soothing, breathing and relaxation techniques for spiritual emergence
• Couples and premarital counseling
• Offering choices, including the enneagram, for people to understand and move beyond personality issues
• Men's issues: releasing and understanding anger without being destructive
• Help people understand habits, their origin and uncovering healthy choices
• Help women and men with self-esteem, depression, anxiety, trauma and loss

Beth Burcham, MA, LPC
MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa University, 1997
954 North Street #307, Boulder, CO 80304
303-717-2177; 303-530-1247 (fax)
bethburcham@gmail.com

Beth has a strong belief in and passion for the deep inner workings of a person’s being. Beth’s approach to therapy is geared for the individual with a true desire for self-exploration, self-growth and self-actualization. She creates a space where one’s inner world can arise and be present. She explores how the circumstances of the past affect one’s life in the present. Beth looks at emotional, cognitive and behavioral patterns that may be stuck and not useful, and works to create more serving, open, authentic and meaningful patterns instead.

Beth uses a psychodynamic approach that combines Buddhist psychology, existential psychology, cognitive-behavioral psychology and transpersonal psychology. She combines a wide array of tools in her therapy practice, which include Gestalt, EMDR, sacred ritual, mindfulness practice and experiential/creative process. Beth tries to weave a sense of the spiritual and a sense of the holistic into these sessions. Beth has professional experience with self-exploration, life transition, depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, co-dependency, relationship issues, self-esteem and self-empowerment issues, women’s issues, grief and loss, death and dying, and spiritual exploration. Beth works with individuals, couples and families. She works with adolescents and adults. She offers a sliding scale fee when needed for her work. Beth has a daily meditation practice, a deep yoga practice and a background in dance. Beth earned a master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in 1997. She has been seeing clients in private practice ever since.

Rachel Cahn, MA, LPC
BodyMind Psychotherapy
954 North Street, Suite 306
Boulder, Colorado 80304
303-818-7575
bodymindtherapy@comcast.net

Education: MA, Counseling Psychology, Regis University 2005;
BA Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1986; Training: Hakomi Psychotherapist Training, Hakomi Couples Therapy Training; EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist and EMDR Training Facilitator; Meditating with the Body, Reggie Ray

"I love working with people who want to work deeply. My approach is to cultivate curiosity and acceptance toward the unconscious core beliefs and strategies that fuel dissatisfying patterns, limit experience, and interrupt self-expression. By working gently toward the difficult, shadowy, painful places, we can unpack the wisdom within them, and transform the wounded parts into greater understanding and self-awareness. Beyond intellectual analysis, the work we do is grounded in your body's felt sense of experience, which naturally facilitates meaningful change. This process of self-discovery and integration is the ground, path, and fruition of our work together. I work with couples to untangle the dynamics of difficult relating, and enliven the relationship to be more fulfilling to both partners. Through experiential therapy, new perception and behaviors can be felt and integrated.

I draw upon two primary methods in my practice: EMDR and Hakomi, a deeply humanistic, bodymind psychotherapy. I offer gentleness and depth as we work together, and have an abiding faith in your innate capacity to embody your radiant authentic being. I have a warm, open style of being with you in this process, regarding and respecting all territory as sacred in the journey towards wholeness."

Larry Cappel, MA, MFT
MA, Somatic Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies
licensed marriage and family therapist
726 Mead Street, Louisville, CO 80027
303-523-6123
larrycappel@gmail.com

Larry received his degree in somatic psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, CA, completing his internship training at the CIIS Somatic clinic. He continued his training with various somatic teachers in the bay area, combining somatic therapies with Buddhist studies and contemplative psychotherapies. He also studied Tibetan Buddhism and psychology in an ongoing program at the Sukhasiddhi Foundation in San Rafael, CA. He maintained a private-practice psychotherapy office in San Francisco where he did individual and family counseling as well as doing psychological assessments and psychotherapy with children in the San Francisco Public School System. Two years ago, he returned to his home in Colorado and re-opened his private practice in Louisville. Larry has fourteen years of experience working with individuals and couples and in facilitating groups to assist individuals with their psychological and spiritual growth process. Combining his training in eastern meditation techniques with his knowledge of western psychology he works compassionately with people to help them resolve their current issues and awaken to their full potential as human beings.  Larry continues his studies of Tibetan Buddhism and psychology in the Kagyu Student Program at the Sukhasiddhi Foundation.

Neil M. Cline, MA, LPC
MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa University, 2001
Licensed Professional Counselor in State of Colorado
Certified Addictions Counselor Level II
BA Psychology, Cornell College, 1986
303-847-6170
nsquan@msn.com

Neil Cline is a licensed psychotherapist with a private counseling practice in Boulder, CO. For the past five years, he has worked with individuals, couples, families and groups facilitating addiction recovery, stress and anger management, impulse control, anxiety reduction, conflict-resolution, communication skill-building, grief and loss process work, crisis-intervention and healing from trauma. Neil utilizes an eclectic / holistic clinical approach, which draws from psychodynamic and cognitive theory bases as well as from reality therapy and transpersonal psychology. Neil’s belief is that an honest relationship with one’s self and others leads to personal well-being. He is a meditation and martial arts practitioner as well; and he uses insight and perspective derived from both of these personal health practices to support his professional work. In his therapeutic work, Neil encourages compassionate awareness of maladaptive belief systems and behaviors. Because Neil believes that therapy is a co-creative process, he assists clients in initiating their own healing, personal growth and self-improvement. Neil has lived in Boulder, CO. since 1998 with his wife Sheryl and their two canine companions Ben and Lyric.




Jasmin Cori, MS, LPC
www.jasmincori.com
jasmin@jasmincori.com
303-938-1178
Boulder

Background: I earned my master’s in clinical psychology in 1976 and LPC in 1993.  I taught over a dozen different psychology courses (graduate and undergraduate), including training therapists in counseling skills. I have experience in several human service agencies and private practice and do some speaking as a trauma educator.

Methods: I draw from various traditions, using whatever seems to click with a particular client. These include techniques from all the major schools of psychology. I like to give my clients as many tools and perspectives as possible. My 2 books, Healing From Trauma: A Survivor’s Guide (2008) and the upcoming The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Claiming the Warmth, Respect, and love Mom Never Gave You (Oct. 2009) are both holistic guides that are filled with suggestions for working with these respective issues.

Focus of Practice: I work with adults, primarily in individual therapy. Issues include life transitions, traumatic stress, current impacts of childhood wounds, relationship issues, grief and loss, spiritual issues, and building a strong sense of self. Sliding scale.

Personal: I’ve logged in 20 years of deep personal work with therapists and teachers and have also authored works related to spiritual development.

Elmar Dornberger, BAI, MFA, MAPsy, LPC
MA, Art Therapy and Counseling Psychology, 2001
303-818-5969
Elmar@HemisphereConsulting.com

“Step into your healing image”

Elmar’s counseling philosophy is strength-based and results-oriented. He works with the innate awareness of each client and the solutions that arise from within.

The model that comes closest to his work is practiced in Europe and is called “Systemic Imaginative Gestalting”. It combines art therapy, NLP (neurolinguistic programming) and systemic constellations. This method utilizes client’s images of issues as well as solutions, which are arranged in three-dimensional space. The internal process of this experience assists in the necessary healing movement for the client.

"This work is for those with the courage to trust in solutions that can come simply, and in a short period of time, as in stepping from shadow into light...."—H. Stark, Dipl. Päd. Altadena, CA

The focus of Elmar’s practice is to restore balance for the individual and the ailing family system, which is often influenced by past trauma of the family of origin and other ancestors. He has taught workshops on art therapy and systemic constellations at Aston Patterning, The Family Therapy Institute, Naropa University Marpa Center and The Caritas Spiritist Center. He presented at the U.S. Systemic Constellation Conference in Portland, OR, and Asheville, NC.

His education and training:

• master practitioner of NLP (neurolinguistic programming), 1988
• certified in hypnotherapy, 1989
• Masters in art therapy and counseling psychology, 2001
• board certified professional counselor, 2003
• He has extensive training in systemic constellation work in both family and organizational systems. He trained in the US and Holland with Bert Hellinger, Weber, Schnabel and others.
• Elmar has been in private practice in Boulder since 2001.

Karen Drucker, PsyD, TEP
Licensed Psychologist
Trainer, Educator, Practitioner of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy
The Tree House
737 29th St.,  Suite 200B
Boulder, CO  80303
303-442-2561

Education: PsyD in clinical psychology from American School for Professional Psychology, Virginia, 2000; MA, University of Colorado; post-doctoral work at Columbine High School; trainer, educator, practitioner of psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy.

Background/Experience: Twelve years experience in counseling with an expertise in the use of experiential, action-oriented methods. 

Professional Interests/Specialties: Expand your creativity, enhance self-awareness and develop more effective ways of interacting in the world. Develop and strengthen positive aspects of yourself as you move through depression. Build emotional strengths and connect with your true power to decrease anxiety. Heal wounds from the past and create new choices for the future. Trauma—offer a clear structure to help move past old thoughts, behaviors and symptoms to reach your heart, soul and mind for true integration. Couples—stop the cycle of blame and criticism and build richer, more intimate relationships. Adolescents and Adults—learn healthy ways to express feelings and cope with life’s challenges.

Adjunct Faculty, Transpersonal Counseling Program, Naropa University since 2003. 

Julie Emmerman, PsyD
PsyD, Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Psychotherapy and Consultation Specializing in Athletes/Sports Psychology
1634 Walnut Street Suite 221, Boulder, Colorado 80302
720-839-7350

Julie E. Emmerman is a doctor of clinical psychology residing in Boulder, CO. In private practice since 2000, she offers a broad spectrum of psychological counseling services with unique specialties in health and sports psychology. Dr. Emmerman brings a keen sense of empathy and appreciation for the human condition to her work. The goal of her practice is to alleviate suffering and facilitate each client’s ability to reach his/her potential. To this end, she tailors a variety of therapeutic influences to meet the unique needs of each client.

Dr. Emmerman obtained her doctorate in clinical psychology with a specialization in health psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology/Chicago (APA approved).  In 1994, she moved to Colorado where she completed her doctoral internship at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Her doctoral dissertation examined personality change following mild traumatic brain injury.

Following several years of clinical experience, Dr. Emmerman established a private practice for adults seeking relief from issues such as anxiety, depression, relationship problems, eating disorders, childhood abuse, psychological aspects of acute and chronic illness, grief and loss. At the same time, she balanced her emerging practice with a second career as an elite professional cyclist, experiencing considerable national and international success.

Upon retiring from professional sport in 2005, Dr. Emmerman obtained specialized training in Sports Psychology. With this advanced study, she can now offer men and women, regardless of discipline, athletic ability or level of commitment, the benefit of her combined skills and experience. A few examples of sports psychology related issues include all facets of injury/illness, metal and behavioral skills for optimizing performance and negotiating athlete/parent/coach dynamics.  Sports psychology also includes addressing psychological problems that are common to many people but are managed differently due to the role of sport in one’s life.

In addition to her private practice, Dr. Emmerman is a referred therapist and victim advocate for Moving To End Sexual Assault (MESA) and Safehouse Progressive Alliance For Non Violence (SPAN). She also consults with businesses such as Beaver Creek and Vail Ski and Snowboard Schools dealing with issues such as sexual ethics in the Ski Resort workplace. In addition, she is a member of the Oderberg Student Athletic Fund which seeks to make sports psychology counseling more accessible to college athletes. Past presentations include "Dealing with Difficult People," "Coping with Loss" and "How to Address Self-Sabotaging Athlete Behavior."

Barry Erdman, LCSW, DCSW
Barry Erdman & Associates, Inc.
Adult, Couple & Family Psychotherapy
1900 Folsom Suite 203, Boulder, CO 80302-5723
Fax: 303-444-3491; Voice: 303-444-1404
be@BoulderTherapist.com
www.BoulderTherapist.com

Licensed clinical social worker, private practice Boulder

Barry has dedicated his thirty-year career to helping clients find creative solutions for overcoming difficult life challenges. His private therapy practice incorporates conventional researched based training and experience in community mental health with recent explorations within humanistic/existential and transpersonal modalities.

His approach is engaging, practical, creative and solution-focused. As a seasoned eclectic professional, his therapeutic interventions may vary from person to person depending on what’s relevant to their particular needs. Sometimes educational, he may teach clients the recommended tried and true “how to’s” (tools for effective communication of feelings, dealing with anger, etc.). Other times cognitive behavioral methods (including clinical hypnosis, NLP, EMDR, imagery, etc.) enable clients to rehearse and experience first hand, the desired changes. A systemic family therapy approach can also be used as needed to address concerns with relationships, parenting and divorce. His long time studies in eastern spiritual traditions (Vedantic Hindhuism; Theravadin Buddhism/vipassana) may also compliment other contemporary psychotherapy techniques (TA, body centered psychotherapy) when appropriate.

Often using metaphor and humor, former clients described him as “easy to talk with, down to earth, expert, friendly, caring and very effective."

Typical treatment conditions include relationships, divorce, betrayal, intimacy, parenting, mood disorders, bi-polar, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, compulsive addictive behaviors, complicated grief and loss, anger management, abuse, ptsd, sexual dysfunction, sports performance, habit control, medical or terminal illness, stress management, life, family and career transitions.

Tara Galeano, MA, LPC
MA, Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University, 2000
The Galeano Group
P.O. Box 17653, Boulder, CO 80308
303-544-1400
www.TheGaleanoGroup.com

Education: MA, contemplative psychology, Naropa University, 2000; BA, literature, Antioch College, 1993

Background/Experience: Ten years experience in counseling, including six years in private practice; five years in teaching and facilitating workshops and trainings.

Professional Interests/Specialties: As a psychotherapist, Tara helps people understand why they are not having the sex they want to have and gain insight into their sexual lives so they can fulfill their desires. She especially enjoys working with clients who suffer from sexual addiction and sexual dysfunction, as she has had much success in these areas. Her approach is direct, compassionate and inclusive. Through creating a collaborative relationship your experiences and transform stuck patterns of behavior will be explored and moved forward.

Professional Affiliations/Activities: Certificate, American Board of Sexology; Educator, Colorado School for Family Therapy; Member, Toastmasters International; Volunteer, Reading to End Racism

In your work with Tara, you will benefit by:

• Developing skills to overcome your sexual addiction
• Expanding your awareness of your body's innate wisdom
• Enriching your life with healthy sexual expression
• Reclaiming your sexuality
• Enhancing your understanding of how past sexual experiences impacted your sexual identity
  
  

Maxine Gower, LCSW, NCPsyP
National Psychoanalytic Certification, Colorado Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis for Adolescents & Adult Individuals, Couples and Families
303-875-5046

licensed clinical social worker, nationally certified psychoanalytic psychotherapist

Education and Background: ATCL (Associate - Acting Teacher) 1975, Trinity College, London, BA (psychology) 1991, Hunter College, New York. Counselor - National Organization for Women (NOW). MSW (Social Work) 1994 - Hunter College, New York. Clinical social worker (LCSW) in Mental Health settings in New York City, Mental Health Center of Boulder County, People's Clinic and private practice in Boulder. Twelve years of post-masters training at the Colorado Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies with National Psychoanalytic Certification (NCPsyP). Currently in private practice in Boulder, teaching masters students in the Contemplative Psychotherapy Department of Naropa University and providing supervision for therapists in private practice and for social workers working toward licensure.

Talking is strong medicine for reducing pain and suffering, getting to root causes and increasing self-acceptance and equanimity.

"Whether depressed, anxious, suffering from grief/loss, or whether one has a diagnosis of bi-polar, PTSD or psychosis, the psychotherapeutic environment is a place to take the time to uncover root causes of pain and suffering, to repair and recover and, if necessary, to be able to bear the unbearable. If one wishes to stop suffering and feel better, establishing an authentic connection with a skilled practitioner, like myself, is a way to move out of painful states of mind. A therapeutic relationship allows for room to develop and exercise one’s 'voice'—saying what one feels and asking for what one wants. It has been scientifically proven that changes occur in the brain when one talks and when another person listens, hears and understands. I view psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as contemplative practices.”

Within an environment of safety, self inquiry and honesty it is, Maxine believes, the relationship itself that ultimately "cures.”

Seventeen years of clinical experience include ways to:

• discover underlying motivations of one’s thoughts, feelings and actions
• turn expressions of depression and anxiety into self care and self acceptance
• communicate clearly and honestly
• transform feelings of guilt and shame
• bear to feel a wide range of emotions
• use feelings of anger and aggression skillfully rather than being reactive
• assimilate and adjust to life transitions such as divorce, grief/loss, aging
• develop the ability to have, to mend or to end intimate partnerships, family relationships and friendships
• choose fulfilling work
• meet the challenges of fertility

Nathan Hartman, MA, LPC
MA, Counseling Psychology, Naropa University, 2002
303-817-5341
n8inthewild@comcast.net

Education: MA, counseling psychology, Naropa University, '02; BS, psychology with minor in human development and family studies, Colorado State University, '96.

Background/Experience: thirteen years of experience counseling children, adolescents, young adults, groups and families in community agencies, undergraduate education and in private practice. 

Professional Interests/ Specialties: Therapy is directed at working with real issues, helping clients through those stuck places and struggles we all find ourselves in. Nathan believes in exploring how clients want/need to be supported and tailoring therapeutic experiences that truly fit. He specializes in working with adolescents and young adults who need support through transitions, grief/loss, difficult relationships, destructive patterns of behavior, stress and a variety of mental health issues. Nathan provides individual, group and family therapy focusing on the whole person—physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. He helps nuture a warm atmosphere with direct, honest and confidential communication. Adolescents and young adults are supported in meeting the challenges of high school/college life, significant relationships, low self-esteem, stress, depression and anxiety. Finding new ways of working through old issues that keep us stuck and struggling to find meaning and peace in the here and now. He proposes working together to build strengths and making contact with internal resources and community. Nathan has a personal interest in using the power of nature, wilderness and adventure to support and guide us through all of life’s challenges.

Elbert M. Hartman, MA, CAC III
MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa University
Center for Change
1790 30th Street, Suite 245, Boulder, CO 80301
303-449-1566 x1
elberthartman@hotmail.com
www.PsychotherapistInBoulder.com

Specialties: Addictions, trauma resolution, dream work
& spiritual emergence

Elbert M. Hartman, MA, CACIII, is the owner and program director of two state-licensed adult out-patient treatment programs, Center for Change in Boulder and Chrysalis Counseling Center in Frisco, Colorado. He has extensive experience as a psychotherapist helping people learn about themselves, heal past wounds and grow towards living their life more fully. Elbert’s areas of expertise include addictions, trauma resolution, personal growth, dreamwork and spiritual emergence. Elbert has received depth training in Buddhist, Jungian and Gestalt psychologies and the Enneagram system. Elbert brings to his work a passion for the application and continued integration of these diverse approaches to psychological healing and growth. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Contemplative Psychology and his master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. He is also trained in EMDR and IMAGO relationship therapy and working with issues that emerge from transpersonal experiences such as holotropic breathwork and meditation practices such as shamatha-vipashyana. Elbert has been a meditation practitioner since 1995 and has supported others in their unique spiritual paths.

Silvia Hast, MA, LPC, CAC III
MA, Contemplative Psychology, Naropa Institute, 1993
303-413-0794
silviahast@gmail.com

Specialties: Silvia's overarching motivation is to help people become more integrated and mindful individuals, and to live balanced lives. She believes that our obstacles, judgments and self-limiting beliefs can be transformed and used as fuel for growth and understanding. drawing on contemplative and western psychology, and her own spiritual practice to support people in creating the lives and results that they strive for.

For the past thirteen years, Silvia has worked extensively in the areas of conflict resolution and mediation, addictions, anger management, dynamics of power and control, stress management and intrafamily violence. She has also started life coaching during the past two years. Silvia works with individuals, couples and groups.

Background/Experience: Silvia was born in Santiago, Chile. She came to the USA in 1975 after living in Switzerland for three years. She became a student of Trungpa Rinpoche in 1979 and has been a Buddhist practitioner and an active member of the Shambhala community since then. From 1989 to 1991, Silvia was the practice coordinator at the Naropa Institute, and has been a meditation instructor since 1990. In 1990 she also enrolled in the Contemplative Psychology Program at Naropa Institute and received an MA in 1993. Since then, she has been in private practice and worked for various counseling agencies. Silvia is a board member for the Domestic Abuse Prevention Project in Boulder County. She has also worked in HIV prevention program development, intercultural counseling, communication skills and advocacy for the Latino community. She meets regularly with a group of peers dedicated to resolving conflict around the globe. Silvia also enjoys hiking, cross country skiing and tango dancing.

Education: MA, contemplative psychology, Naropa Institute '93; life coach training, Newfield Network '04; certified senior addictions counselor (CAC III) since '96; approved domestic violence provider since '95; mediation training, Center for Dispute Resolution (CDR) '90 and '96; certified massage therapist, Healing Arts Institute of Boulder (Boulder College of Massage Therapy) '76; business engineer, Universidad de Chile '74; BA, economic sciences, Universidad de Chile '70.

Adrianne R. Holloran, MA, LPC
MA, Contemplative Psychotherapy, Naropa University
Bilingual Psychotherapist
5378 Sterling Drive, Boulder, CO 80301
303-641-5281
adrianneholloran@yahoo.com

Background/Experience: As a contemplative psychotherapist, Adrianne supports individuals in developing greater awareness, both of themselves and their environment. Through deep listening, curiosity and the practice of moment to moment awareness, the therapeutic relationship becomes a tool for healing, self-discovery and transformation. She views clients from a strength based perspective, creating an atmosphere of openness and compassion where individuals can discover their natural wisdom, inherent health, and develop the skillful means to make conscious and positive life choices. Having worked with high-risk youth, she recognizes the need to hold chaos and create stability. Meditation practice from both Thich Nhat Hanh and the Shambhala traditions also inform her therapeutic approach.

Education: Adrianne assists clients who are experiencing grief and loss, depression, life transitions, cultural adaptation, relationships challenges, or seeking spiritual development. She is honored to work with adolescents, adults and elders both in English and in Spanish. She earned a Masters of Arts in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder and is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Colorado.

Adrianne offers a free, twenty-minute consultation. Sessions are 50 minutes and cost $80. She reserves a limited number of sessions on a sliding scale fee for $50–$65 per session. Currently, she does not accept insurance.

Melissa Jones, LCSW
Individual and Couples Therapy
75 Manhattan Circle #208, Boulder, CO 80303
303-775-8474
www.mjpsychotherapy.com

Melissa is a licensed clinical social worker with more than ten years of experience working with individual and couples. She specializes in working with individuals who are experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, life transitions and relationship issues. 

 Melissa incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic and EMDR into her practice, depending on each client’s individual needs. She believes one of the most important parts of therapy is to build a trusting relationship between herself and her client’s. She is a caring, empathetic person who takes great pride in helping others find their way.

Affiliations: National Association of Social Workers, National Association of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapists, EMDRIA

Gretchen Kahre, MA, LPC
MA, Contemplative Psychology, Naropa University, 1989
303-818-8357
gretchkahre@earthlink.net

Education: MA, contemplative psychology, Naropa University, 1989; BA, psychology and women’s studies, University of Colorado, 1986.

Background: LPC since 1994 with more than sixteen years psychotherapy experience including private practice, practical integrative psychotherapy & Windhorse Community Services.

Professional Interests/Specialties: Gretchen helps clients discover tools and insights that make their mind more workable in difficult situations. By joining clients in their everyday world outside of an office setting, she helps them directly apply these tools in real life situations. The process of assisting her clients to create a new and more fulfilling life is what she enjoys most about her work.

Practical integrative psychotherapy and mentoring, treatment of trauma and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), treatment of bi-polar disorder, EMDR, treatment of eating disorders, trouble-shooting and support for NLD (Nonverbal Learning Disorder), life skills and time management.

Professional Affiliations/Activities: Eating Disorders Professionals of Colorado

Brigitta Karelis, CHT
MA, Somatic Psychology, Naropa University, 1997
303-215-4513
bkarelis@yahoo.com

Brigitta holds a Diplom (MEd) from the University of Marburg, Germany, in paedagogik (a study combining social work, education, and psychology) and an MA in somatic psychology from Naropa University. She is a certified hakomi therapist and serves as faculty for both Naropa University and the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. During her more than twenty years of experience in the mental health field, she has worked with drug-addicted youth, political refugees, the mentally ill and dying people in several countries. She has a private practice, offering psychotherapy that includes the body as a vehicle for growth and healing. EMDR is one of her tools. She specializes in the recovery from trauma, and also works with relationship issues, grief and life transitions. She believes that any challenge can be mastered, and any trauma can be integrated to make us kinder and wiser. She is a teacher and meditation instructor in the Buddhist Shambhala community.

Mary Ann Keatley, PhD, CCC
777 29^th Street, Suite 400, Boulder, CO, 30303
303-447-0022

Mary Ann Keatley is certified in speech-language pathology, biofeedback, EEG neurofeedback and orofacial myology. She has 35 years of experience working with individuals with stress-related disorders and neurological impairments. Areas of specialty include traumatic brain injuries and medical outcomes. Dr. Keatley has worked at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver and Boulder Memorial Hospital (currently Boulder Community Hospital) where she was the director of speech-language pathology and the clinical director of physical medicine and rehabilitation for 13 years. She has worked in private practice for 21 years with a primary focus on neurocognitive rehabilitation with individuals with traumatic brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, attention deficit disorders and learning disabilities. In the field of biofeedback, specialty areas include pain disorders, headaches, neck and back pain, anxiety and other stress-related problems.  Dr. Keatley has published widely in the fields of speech-language pathology, traumatic brain injuries and medical outcomes management. 

Beth Lichtenstein, MA, LPC
MA, Transpersonal Psychology, Naropa University, 2001
Marine Street Wellness Center
303-776-0889
bpsyched@msn.com 

Education: MA, transpersonal psychology, Naropa University, 2001; BA, psychology and religious studies, University of Colorado.

Beth's style is to help you develop your relationship to yourself—to help you unlock your heart, your spirit and your bravery. This is not your average therapy. Therapy does not have to take years. Beth is eclectic and holistic. Her approach is direct and honest, integrative and unconventional. She works from her heart and intuition. Beth believes the body, mind and spirit are deeply connected. Integration of these leads to balance and healing and back to our essence. 

Specializing in: Couples & individuals, teens & young adults. Mind/body centered, East/West traditions, relationship, grief, trauma, emotional abuse, depression, transitions, spiritual emergencies.

Gail Marcus, LCSW
MSW, University of Hawaii, 1986
1800 30th Street Suite 217B, Boulder, Colorado 80301
303-641-6475
gailrmarcus@aol.com

Background: Gail is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples and groups. She completed her MSW at the University of Hawaii in 1986 and obtained her LCSW for the state of Colorado in 1998. Gail's experience includes work with sexual abuse, domestic violence, medical trauma and crisis intervention.

Modalities: Gail's approach is client-centered, a collaborative venture toward healing, skill building and resolution. She provides clear, direct and compassionate guidance through the use of cognitive-behavior techniques and EMDR, a method which works to facilitate healing from traumatic life events. 

Belief: Gail believes that we all the ability to change old patterns that no longer continue to serve us. She can help with resolving issues of grief, depression, anxiety, anger, stress, trauma and PTSD symptoms (flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, anger, fear and isolation.) She feels strongly that by resolving disturbing issues we can begin to grow towards healthier relationships and a stronger sense of self. Gail's rates are reasonable, and she accepts some insurances.

Affiliations: NASW, EMDRIA

Kate Mazuy, MA, LPC, CHT
MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa University, 2000
720-201-3868
katemazuy@msn.com

Kate received her master’s degree in transpersonal counseling psychology and is a certified hakomi therapist, working in private practice. She is an adjunct faculty member in both the MA Contemplative Psychotherapy and Wilderness Therapy programs at Naropa. She is also a teacher for matrixworks/ living systems institute. Kate draws from her experience of more than fifteen years of facilitating wilderness experiences to help create an environment where individuals and groups can establish deeper connections with themselves and others. She is passionate about helping people discover their hidden potential and joy. Her experience includes working with trauma, EMDR, life transitions/rites of passage work, self-esteem, depression, anxiety and work with extreme emotional states.

Jeff Pincus, MSW, LCSW
3393 Iris Ave #206, Boulder, CO 80301
303-775-7030
Jeffpincus@gmail.com

Transform your emotional habits! Jeff is passionate about working with individuals and couples who are deeply curious about themselves, and who genuinely want to move beyond habitual limitations for a fuller, freer life. He draws from two decades of counseling experience to assist you in this journey. Jeff sees the therapeutic process as being a gentle, yet deep process of assisted self-discovery, not limited to talking. He specializes in a mindfulness-based psychotherapy called hakomi. The use of mindfulness is central to this method, and allows you to access directly, the manner in which you have become organized. This will include studying the hidden, forgotten about and rejected beliefs, memories, and automatic behaviors which limit freedom and greater vitality. Ultimately, this journey will result in you uncovering your own inherent health and wisdom, which lies beyond automatic and outdated modes of being.

Jeff has been a Buddhist practitioner for more than eighteen years, and has also facilitated men's retreats and groups over the course of that time. He is currently an adjunct faculty member in
the Somatic Counseling Department at Naropa, as well as a hakomi training assistant at the Hakomi Institute.

Joan Rieger, MA, LPC
MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa University, 2001
1365 Forest Park Circle, Suite #202, Lafayette, CO 80026
303-548-6901

Joan received her master's degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology from Naropa University (2001) in Boulder, Colorado. She is also a certified Gestalt therapist from the Gestalt Institute of the Rockies (2002), and trained in EMDR. Joan has more than ten years of experience working with individuals, couples and families. Her specialties include trauma & abuse, grief & loss, depression, addictive behaviors, body image and eating disorders, anxiety, major transitions and relationship issues. She was an administrator and family therapist for a nationally known wilderness therapy program for at-risk teenagers for three years, and also has more than ten years of corporate experience.

Joan's personal philosophy is rooted in Gestalt, family systems, emotional development and transpersonal theories. Her approach is relationship based and experiential. She focuses on helping people be in direct contact with themselves and others no matter what is being experienced, deepening trust and connection in relationship and moving from an intellectual understanding of issues to an emotional healing and release. Joan offers both traditional psychotherapy as well as equine-assisted psychotherapy. 

John W Steele, PhD, Licensed Psychologist
1055 Miami Way, Boulder, CO 80305 
303-499-9591
John@PsychotherapyInBoulder.com
www.PsychotherapyInBoulder.com


John is a licensed psychologist with twenty-two years of experience offering effective, affordable psychotherapy to women and men, older adolescents and seniors. As a psychotherapist with expertise in therapeutic applications of mindfulness, he can help you mobilize psychological and spiritual resources that promote deep healing and lasting change. John sees individuals and couples for brief solution-focused work or ongoing insight-oriented psychotherapy. John provides clinical supervision to mental health professionals and serve as a therapist for students completing their counseling experiential. His sliding fee scale ranges from $30–120/visit. What is his personal style as a therapist? His daily practice of Zen and yoga has inspired him to integrate meditation and psychotherapy. He finds that guiding clients to focus on their felt sense takes the work of therapy to a deeper level. Clients comment on his warmth and empathy. John listens carefully, gives nonjudgmental feedback and offers encouragement to try out new behaviors. What kind of problems does he treat? His clients are generally capable people seeking support with issues such as job, family and situation-related stress; relationship or marital problems; depression, irritability or anger; anxiety, fears or low
self-esteem; trauma, stress-related illness or pain; loss and unresolved grief; existential and spiritual issues.

Edie Stone, MA, LPC
MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa University, 1997
2027 Broadway, Suite H, Boulder, 80302
303-415-3755
Edie@EdieStone.com
www.ShamanicJourneys.net

Education: MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa, 1997. MA, experiential education, CU, 1989. post-graduate training & certification: shamanic journey guide; certified Gestalt therapist; Imago and PAIRS for couples; EMDR for trauma; deep memory process past-life and trauma release.

Experience: 10 years experience in soul-centered counseling, including many Naropa undergrads, grad students, staff, alumni and TCP counseling experientials. Faculty: Colorado School of Counseling Hypnotherapy.

Professional Interests & Specialties: Edie provides a gentle, grounded, clear and compassionate space to help you: find your strengths; feel more creative, powerful, and centered; explore and integrate mind, body, heart, and soul. Depression: Recover with an effective mind-body approach, including nutritional support and energy awareness. Anxiety: Learn to relax and cope with warrior exams and other stress. Relationships: Learn communication skills. Deepen your capacity for intimacy and love, using practical PAIRS and Imago tools. Young Adults: Individuate from family, find your path. Mid-life transitions: Trying to balance school, kids, elders, exercise, menopause, meditation, and your budget? Gestalt: Transform stuck patterns. Listen to your body's wisdom. Increase mind-body awareness. Dreams: Dialogue with dream characters, re-enter the dream, shift the ending, receive spiritual guidance. Heart vision shamanic journeys: A safe, natural way to explore alternative states of consciousness. A powerful alternative to substance use and spiritual by-passing. Meet your Spirit Guides, recover your power, retrieve lost soul qualities. Past lives: Release chronic patterns. Move out of drama and trauma. Reconcile relationships, release unhealthy attachments. Receive spiritual healing in the "bardo" or between-lives state. Free initial consultation. Discount for Naropa students.

Isabelle Tierney, MA, LMFT
MA, child development, Tufts University
2291 Arapahoe Avenue, 2nd Floor, Boulder, CO 80302
303-817-6912

Education: Isabelle graduated from the Family Therapy/Play Therapy Institute in 2005 with certificates in Marriage and Family Therapy and Play Therapy. She is also a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, a four-year school in psychospiritual healing. She holds an MA in child development from Tufts University.

Experience: Isabelle offers individual, couples, family and group sessions for those who struggle with eating disorders, disordered eating and negative body image. She empowers clients to discover reverence for their bodies, leading them to make heart-based (rather than belief-based) choices. In the deepest sense, their work becomes about relationship, to body, to self and to other. She also works with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, relationship, and physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse, all of which revolve around the concept of self-awareness and acceptance. She offers play therapy, couples therapy and family therapy. She has been in private practice for ten years. Because she believes that “the client can only go as far as the healer/therapist goes,” she continues to do her own inner exploration with passion and diligence.

Professional Affiliations/Specialties:

• Co-founder of the Boulder County Eating Disorders Coalition, a group committed to education, risk reduction and referral information.
• Therapist at Compass House, an adolescent outreach center in Boulder.
• Runs a parent support group at La Luna Center, an eating disorder center in Boulder.
• Creator and president of The Habit Experts, a company dedicated to creating holistic products and services to help people with painful habits, including eating, substance abuse, relationship and spending habits.
• Published writer on health and spiritual issues.
• Hosted an internet show on healing.
• Leads workshops and trainings nationally on eating disorders, disordered eating, health and spiritual issues.

Languages: French, English and Spanish

Soltahr Tiv-Amanda, MA, LPC
MA, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, Naropa Institute, 1999
720-296-0041
soltahr@msn.com


Education: MA, transpersonal counseling psychology, Naropa Institute 1999; licensed professional counselor since 2003

Background / Experience: thirty years in the helping/healing field; nine years in therapeutic practice; six years training graduate students in multicultural counseling; fifteen years as a reiki master/practitioner; twenty-four years as a priestess/spiritual guide; certified mindfulness meditation instructor since 2004; Naropa adjunct, former faculty and staff.

Philosophy Statement and Specialties: Soltahr's belief is that we all contain within us a deep well of healing, and an innate wise self that knows what we most need and what is best for us. In her work with you, she will help you to find and access this sacred well of healing within yourself, to help you open up to new worlds of health and wholeness. To facilitate this personal growth, she draws on a foundation of many transpersonal methodologies, strength-based, Gestalt and liberation model therapies that are culturally sensitive to all people. Her work at blending humor, insight/intuition and depth to create a trusting and ethical therapeutic connection.

Soltahr works with:

• Individuals of all cultural groups: to help with family-of-origin issues, early childhood, the ongoing trauma of racism and discrimination, relationships, grief and loss, depression, anxiety and violent relationship recovery. We will co-create new feelings of self-awareness, self-esteem/worth and sense of purpose. We can also explore spiritual and religious issues to help you to find nurturing spiritual connection, purpose and meaning in everyday life.
• Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Questioning: to help with coming out to self, family and friends, transition, relationships, self-acceptance
• Women: Helping women of all ages toward empowerment and exploration of life stages/passages
• Other Therapists: providing supervision towards LPC hours, consultation around Intercultural issues with clients and peer connection

Matthew Tomatz, MA, LPC, CACIII
MA, Contemplative Psychotherapy, Naropa University
303-709-5525

licensed professional counselor; certified addiction counselor, Level III; certified yoga instructor, forrest yoga; MA in psychology: contemplative psychotherapy (Naropa University); Master of Music; Bachelor of Music

Life invites us to engage and play, to experience happiness and deep love, and to transform our unique inspiration into creation, action, and meaningful relationship. Too easily, this natural ability becomes stunted or blocked causing pain or suffering. Matthew has worked with people contending with issues related to addiction, life threatening or chronic illness, chronic pain, relationships, life transitions, overwhelming anger, depression, anxiety, detrimental thoughts or beliefs and men’s issues. Working with these people and witnessing amazing change has allowed him to understand that it is possible to overcome, transform and learn to manage the barriers in life. He believes that psychotherapy is fundamentally a process of working to release the patterns that dominate our lives, thwart our ability to choose and deaden our vitality and creativity while finding solutions and new ways of living that cultivate joy and satisfaction.   

Matthew's counseling style is grounded in the commitment to assist you in releasing the burden of your struggle. To engage in counseling with him is to work to untangle and demystify the powerful forces that hinder you in life. He believes that the commitment to change is a noble pursuit and he am passionate about this task. Matthew is driven to uncover the ability we each possess to grow, adapt and ultimately live joyful lives in relationship to others and the world of which we are a part.  His goal is to rely on warmth, directness and integrity; his life and work experience; and his training to blend an integrative craft and create a therapeutic alliance that inspires such change.  This might take the form of insight therapy, concrete planning and skills training, addressing cognitive/behavioral patterns directly, exploring past emotional hurts and working to release them, understanding and restructuring relationship dynamics, mindfulness techniques and breath exercises, work with body and mind integration, and attending to whatever is present in your life or the therapeutic relationship. It is his honor to join others on this journey.

Amy Winters, MSW, LCSW
MSW, Clinical Social Work, University of Kansas, 1993
Riverbend Office Park
4860 Riverbend Road, Suite 1, Boulder, CO 80301
303-554-9800
amyatlarge@yahoo.com 

Education: MSW, clinical social work, University of Kansas, 1993, integrative body psychotherapy ( basic & advanced 2-year training). EMDR certification. Postgraduate trainings in Imago & PAIRS Couple’s Counseling, Gestalt, group leadership, trauma /addictions and clinical chi kung energy work

Background/Experience: Amy has fifteen years of experience as a psychotherapist in private practice, in adult outpatient counseling for Longmont Hospital where she also taught stress management classes, and in adolescent, family treatment centers in Kansas City, Denver and Boulder in which she provided individual, family and group psychotherapy to high-risk teens and pre-teens. Her sixteen years of Buddist mindfulness practice and experience as a meditation instructor, as well as advanced training in body-centered psychotherapy both compliments and informs her psychoogical training. Drawing from her background in Buddhism, traditional and transpersonal psychology, she works from a strengths perspective, to empower clients to discover their own inner resources and soliutions and transform old energetic and emotional blocks. Her specialties include:

• Relationship counseling for individuals and couples, to deepen emotional connections, intimacy and communication and to transform old patterns and behaviors keeping one stuck in power struggles and unsatisying relationship situations.
• Sexual abuse & trauma resolution—utilizing powerful cognitive and body-based tools for emotional release and recovery
• Depression and other mood disorders—helping you transform difficult emotional pain to regain motivation, balance, productivity and satisfaction in life
• Stress, anxiety and panic—learn tools to manage stress. Reduce or eliminate anxiety and panic through cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness techniques, guided imagery and EMDR.
• Grief and loss—supportive therapy through the process of grief and emitional healing from painful loss
• Life transitions and school/workplace challenges—insight-oriented as well as solution focused therapy in making career and life changes and in succeeding in school and work
• Low self-esteem, procastination, anger/reactivity patterns—helping you gain insight, break old patterns and move in new directions. Providing practical tools and helping you find creative solutions.