Online psychotherapy for individuals and couples in Colorado and California

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Turning challenging life transitions into enriching adventures.

Online Individual Psychotherapy and Couples Counseling

 

You may be the person others rely on — thoughtful, capable, responsible, and used to holding a lot. From the outside, you may look like you’re managing. Inside, you may feel anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, grieving, or unsure how to keep moving forward in the same way.

In your relationship, you may find yourselves having the same arguments, feeling more like roommates than partners, avoiding hard conversations, or struggling to feel close after years of stress, transition, parenting, loss, or hurt.

Whether you come to therapy on your own or with your partner, my work is warm, collaborative, and engaged. I help individuals and couples slow down, understand the patterns they get caught in, and begin relating to themselves and each other with more clarity, honesty, and care.

I offer online psychotherapy for individuals and couples in Colorado and California. My approach draws from somatic therapy, EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, parts work, and polyvagal-informed perspectives, while tailoring our work to your pace, your history, your relationships, and what you’re hoping to understand or change.

My practice began as Denver Flow Counseling. Today, I work fully online with clients located in Colorado and California.

 Therapy May Be a Good Fit If…

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You may be used to functioning well, taking care of others, and pushing through — even when you’re anxious, grieving, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself. Therapy can offer a space to slow down, understand what is happening beneath the surface, and explore new ways of responding.

You may be looking for support if:

  • You look like you’re managing, but feel tense, exhausted, or emotionally overloaded inside.

  • You’re navigating a major life transition, relocation, loss, career stress, or relationship strain.

  • You and your partner keep getting caught in the same arguments, distance, or disconnection.

  • You’re successful in many areas of life, but still feel stuck in old patterns.

  • You’re used to being the helper, the problem-solver, or the one who keeps things together.

  • You want therapy that is thoughtful, relational, and grounded in both insight and the body.

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How I Work

My approach is warm, collaborative, and depth-oriented. I don’t believe therapy is about forcing quick fixes or giving generic advice. Instead, we slow things down enough to understand the patterns, emotions, protective strategies, and nervous system responses that may be shaping your life and relationships.

Depending on your needs, our work may integrate somatic therapy, EMDR, psychodynamic therapy, parts work, and polyvagal-informed approaches. This means we may explore not only what you think and feel, but also what your body has learned to carry, protect, avoid, or brace against.

For individuals, this may involve working with anxiety, trauma, grief, self-doubt, burnout, professional stress, or major life transitions.

For couples, this may involve understanding the cycle you get caught in, softening defensiveness, rebuilding trust, communicating more honestly, and finding your way back to each other.

Online Therapy in Colorado and California

I offer therapy fully online through a secure video platform. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meaningful support into a full life, especially if you are balancing work, family, travel, privacy needs, or a schedule that makes in-person appointments difficult.

I work with clients who are physically located in Colorado or California at the time of session.

For People Living Between Worlds

I have a particular sensitivity to people navigating relocation, immigration, cross-cultural relationships, and the feeling of being far from what once felt familiar. Living away from home can intensify both the painful and the joyful parts of life — a separation, a major loss, a new baby, a career change, or a relationship struggle can feel more complicated when you’re away from your usual support system.

My multicultural background shapes the way I work. I value the richness, complexity, and resilience that can come from living between cultures, languages, and communities — and I understand that these experiences can also bring loneliness, stress, and a longing for belonging.

This is not the only focus of my work, but it is one I understand personally and clinically.

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Begin Online Therapy

If you’re wondering whether working together might be a good fit, I invite you to reach out for a free 20-minute video consultation. This is a chance for us to talk briefly about what you’re looking for and whether my approach feels supportive for you.

EMAIL ME TO BOOK YOUR A 20-MINUTE VIDEO CONSULTATION

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