Psychotherapy
I offer psychotherapy in Denver for adults seeking more than symptom relief alone. Together, we can look more closely at the experiences, relationships, beliefs, patterns, and questions of meaning beneath what brought you here.
Depth-Oriented Therapy
Understanding More Than the Symptom
Anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, or a period of uncertainty may be what first brings someone to therapy. But symptoms rarely exist in isolation.
I practice depth-oriented psychotherapy, which means we can address what is happening now while also becoming curious about the larger story around it—your history, relationships, identity, beliefs, emotional patterns, culture, and the ways you have learned to move through the world.
The goal is not to analyze everything endlessly. It is to understand yourself well enough that new choices become possible.
Areas of Focus
What We Can Explore in Therapy
Anxiety, Depression & Emotional Distress
When worry, hopelessness, low mood, overwhelm, or recurring emotional patterns begin interfering with your ability to live the way you want.
Trauma & Difficult Life Experiences
Making sense of experiences that continue to affect your body, relationships, emotions, or sense of safety long after the immediate event has passed.
Identity, Relationships & Life Transitions
Exploring who you are becoming, patterns that repeat in relationships, major changes, questions of belonging, or parts of life that no longer feel aligned.
Religious Trauma, Faith Transitions & Spiritual Concerns
Support for people questioning or leaving a faith tradition, processing religious harm or spiritual abuse, or trying to understand how belief, identity, family, community, and meaning fit together after a worldview begins to change.
Meaning, Purpose & Existential Concerns
Therapy can also make room for questions that do not fit neatly into a diagnosis: purpose, mortality, career, culture, isolation, ecological distress, and what makes a life feel worth inhabiting.
Mind-Body Symptoms
Psychological distress sometimes shows up physically. Therapy may include attention to experiences such as panic, gastrointestinal distress, migraines, nausea, tension, and other mind-body symptoms when clinically appropriate.
My Approach
How I Work
My therapeutic approach is rooted in depth psychology, with influences from psychoanalytic, psychodynamic, phenomenological, and trauma-informed traditions. Different methods can offer different ways of understanding what is happening.
Depth & Analytic Psychotherapy
Depth-oriented work pays attention to patterns that may operate outside immediate awareness—including relationships, emotional conflicts, dreams, identity, history, and unconscious processes.
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
ISTDP informs the way I pay attention to emotion, anxiety, defenses, and patterns that can make meaningful experiences difficult to approach directly.
Sensorimotor Perspectives on Trauma
Trauma does not exist only as a story we remember. It can also shape bodily responses, sensation, movement, and the nervous system.
Sensorimotor perspectives help make room for those experiences alongside conversation and reflection.
A Relational Approach
No modality matters more than the person sitting in front of me. Therapy begins with listening—trying to understand how your experiences make sense in the context of your life rather than forcing them into a predetermined framework.
Finding the Right Fit
Who Depth-Oriented Therapy May Be For
This approach may be a good fit if you:
- Want to understand why certain patterns keep repeating
- Are interested in more than short-term coping strategies
- Feel that a diagnosis does not tell the whole story
- Are navigating religious, spiritual, existential, or identity questions
- Want room to explore relationships, history, dreams, meaning, or inner conflict
- Have insight into your difficulties but still feel stuck
- Are looking for an engaged therapeutic relationship rather than a one-size-fits-all treatment plan
Care Options
Therapy in Person & Online
In-Person Therapy
I provide individual psychotherapy in
Littleton, Colorado, with convenient access for clients throughout the
South Denver metro area.
Telehealth Across Colorado
Online psychotherapy is available to adults located throughout Colorado.
PSYPACT Telehealth
I can also provide telepsychology to eligible clients located in 40+ PSYPACT-participating states, subject to current authorization requirements.
Fees & Insurance
Therapy Cost & Payment
Individual Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy sessions are $210 for 50 minutes and are available in person or by telehealth where permitted.
Insurance
I currently accept
Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Carelon Behavioral Health, Cigna, Curative, and
Select Health – Colorado. At this time,
I’m not able to accept Medicaid.
FAQs
Questions About Therapy
Do I need to know exactly what I want to work on?
No. Some people arrive with a very specific concern. Others simply know that something feels difficult, repetitive, or unresolved. Part of therapy can be discovering what the question actually is.
Is depth-oriented psychotherapy the same as psychoanalysis?
Not exactly. Depth-oriented psychotherapy draws from psychoanalytic and related traditions, but it does not necessarily involve traditional psychoanalysis or a particular number of sessions each week.
The broader focus is on understanding the emotional, relational, historical, and unconscious patterns beneath present concerns.
Will we only talk about the past?
No. Your history matters because it can help us understand the present, but therapy is also concerned with how you are living now and what you want to become possible moving forward.
Do you only work with religious trauma?
No. Religious trauma and faith transitions are an important specialty within my practice, but I also work with adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, identity, mind-body symptoms, existential concerns, grief, and major life changes.
How do I know whether we're a good fit?
That is part of what the initial consultation and first sessions are for. You can ask questions, get a sense of how I work, and decide whether this feels like a therapeutic relationship in which you could do meaningful work.
Take the First Step
Sometimes the first step toward change is simply starting the conversation. Reach out to see whether working together feels like the right fit.
