Psychodynamic and Relational Therapist in Colorado Springs
Long-term, depth-oriented psychotherapy for people who have tried other therapies that did not get to the root. As a trauma therapist in Colorado Springs I also offer EMDR therapy when the work calls for it, but the focus is knowing yourself as a whole person. In-person and virtual sessions for Colorado Springs and the Front Range.
You Have Done the Work. It Still Follows You.
You have read the books, tried the affirmations, and maybe even spent years in traditional talk therapy. You understand your patterns. You can explain exactly why you do what you do. And still the same thing keeps happening. Insight alone rarely reaches the part of you that formed these patterns in the first place, because that part lives deeper than language, in the nervous system and in the relationships that shaped you. Depth-oriented psychotherapy works at that level, slowly and relationally, so the change holds instead of fading a few months after the sessions end.
What Is Depth-Oriented Psychotherapy?
Psychodynamic and relational therapy works on the assumption that your current struggles are not random. Anxiety, burnout, difficulty in relationships and the sense of never quite arriving usually trace back to something earlier that has never been fully understood or felt through. Rather than managing those symptoms week to week, we follow them down to where they started.
The work is relational, so the therapy relationship itself becomes part of how you come to know yourself. It is slower than a short protocol and that is why the change lasts. Where trauma sits deeper than words, I also use EMDR in Colorado Springs within this longer arc rather than in place of it.
EMDR in Colorado Springs Is a Fit If You Are...
High-Functioning Professional
Succeeding on the outside while quietly running on burnout, imposter syndrome and anxiety no one around you sees.
Trauma Survivor
Ready to move past "managing" old wounds and finally experience genuine integration and relief.
Someone Therapy Has Not Reached Yet
You have done CBT, coaching or short-term counseling. You understand your patterns, and they still repeat.
Ready for Long-Term Work
Not looking for a quick protocol. You want to understand yourself as a whole person and let the change settle in for good.
Intensive Sessions
For those who cannot spread the work across months of weekly hours, intensive EMDR therapy in Colorado Springs offers focused, multi-hour sessions for concentrated processing. Intensives sit inside the same depth-oriented approach, so what surfaces in the room gets held and integrated rather than left open.
TRAUMA-INFORMED INTAKE
A deep-dive assessment of your history and nervous system so we know what we are working with before we begin.
FOCUSED PROCESSING
Extended sessions that let you stay with the material long enough to move through it, rather than stopping just as it opens.
INTEGRATION SUPPORT
Follow-up guidance for grounding what shifted and carrying it into your relationships and daily life.
What We Work With
PTSD and Trauma
Working through what happened, including EMDR where the memory is held deeper than words can reach.
Burnout
Looking at what drives the overfunctioning, not just restoring the energy you have spent.
Childhood Wounds
Healing the early relationships that shaped how you see yourself now.
Grief
Navigating loss at your own pace, with room for everything the loss stirred up.
Anxiety
Understanding what the anxiety has been protecting you from, so it can finally ease.
Depression
Lifting the heaviness and reconnecting with what once felt like yours.
A Psychodynamic Psychotherapist Who Moves at Your Pace
I consider myself a psychodynamic and relational, depth-oriented psychotherapist. That means I am less interested in managing symptoms than in understanding where they came from and what they have been protecting. Much of my work is with people who have tried other therapies that did not quite get there, who can name their patterns but still find themselves living inside them.
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Psychodynamic, relational and depth-oriented approach
- Long-term therapy, with EMDR available when it fits
- In-person and virtual sessions available
- Free 15-minute consultation
How to Get Started
Free Consultation
A 15-minute call to see if we're a good fit.
Intake Session
Gathering your history and setting goals.
Ongoing Depth Work
Regular sessions that follow the patterns to their root.
Insight & Integration
Knowing yourself as a whole person and living differently because of it.
Serving Colorado Springs and the Surrounding Area
Our Office
Hours
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from therapy I have already tried?
Most short-term approaches work on the symptom: the anxious thought, the habit, the reaction. That can help, and for many people it stops working once the pressure returns. Psychodynamic and relational therapy goes underneath that, to the early relationships and unspoken beliefs that keep producing the symptom in the first place. If you have done therapy before and understood a great deal without much changing, that gap is usually the reason.
How long does therapy take?
This is long-term work, so it is measured in months and often longer rather than a set number of sessions. Depth changes slowly because it is changing something structural, not managing a surface. We check in regularly on how the work is going, and you set the pace. If we use EMDR for a specific memory, that piece may move faster while the broader work continues.
Does needing therapy mean something is wrong with me?
Absolutely not. Seeking therapy is an act of strength and self-awareness. Many of the people I work with have spent their lives being high achievers while quietly carrying unresolved emotional pain, often shaped by early experiences with perfectionistic, narcissistic or emotionally unavailable caregivers. Therapy is a courageous step. It is not about weakness, it is about recognizing that you deserve support and that you do not have to carry it all alone anymore.
Do I have to talk about everything in detail?
No. You share what you are ready to share, when you are ready. Nothing is forced, and part of the work is building enough safety that difficult material can surface on its own terms. With EMDR in particular, you do not need to narrate a memory in detail for it to be processed.
Weekly sessions or intensives?
Weekly sessions are the foundation of depth work, because change of this kind needs continuity. Intensive EMDR therapy can be useful alongside that when a specific memory needs concentrated attention or when your schedule makes regular weekly hours difficult. We decide together on the consultation call.
Is this approach evidence-based?
Yes. Psychodynamic therapy has a strong research base, including evidence that its benefits often continue to grow after treatment ends. EMDR is likewise well supported for trauma and PTSD and is recognized by major clinical guidelines. Using both means you get the depth of one and the targeted processing of the other.