Counseling in Colorado Springs, CO

You sit in the car, dreading walking into the office. All the complaints and the drama you will have to face. You keep anticipating everything that will go wrong with the day. You feel like a fraud. While you tell everyone how to be authentic you know you haven’t really been vulnerable with anyone in years.

You try to calm your mind by working out, doing yoga, maybe even meditating. You would think by now you would find some peace. You aren’t sure exactly what you need, if you need a counselor, a coach, a psychiatrist, or a psychologist. But, you know you need something, and you are tired of waiting to fully enjoy your life.

You wonder why you feel so alone when you have so many friends who love you. You have worked so long to succeed. Yet the voices in your head continue telling you that you are not enough. You wonder if you are still trying to please the past you, the you that wanted to please others in your life. 

Anxiety and Trauma Therapist in Colorado Springs

I help successful yet anxious people want to be in their bodies and move from feeling stressed out and anxious and depressed or numb into feeling more like themselves and comfortable in their bodies. Therapy will help you to not feel so alone, even in a room full of people. Instead you will feel more connected with friends and yourself.

Together we can work on relationships so that you are able to easily state what you need and comfortably learn the needs of your partners and friends. 

Despite how hard you work and how successful you have become, you fear living under a bridge. Together, we will learn how to get out of that fear mentality -- so that you know that you are not simply what you do. We will take all that anxiety and let it drift away, and replacing it with more confidence, steadiness and solidity. 

For the past twelve years, I have loved helping leaders --  successful, intelligent, driven people -- who have had bad things happen in their past and are still facing anxiety to this day overcome the pain that they are still facing on a regular basis.

Clients say that even after a few sessions, they feel more grounded and that the chatter in their head diminishes significantly. 

My name is Melissa (she/her), and I Can Help

I am a counselor in Colorado Springs, CO who's been helping people uncover what is stopping them from feeling the way they want to feel for over two decades. I won’t just sit and nod my head- I will collaborate with you to figure out what really makes sense for you. There are no cookie cutter solutions here- because life is never that simple. BUT… I have so many tools and strategies at my disposal AND the intuition to help direct you to the right thing at the right time so you can get where you want to go. Many of my clients come from non-normative relationship styles and many are curious or are using psychedelics to cope.

Contact me for a free counseling consultation

I know it can feel like a big step to call a counselor, but I’ll make it easy. We’ll spend 15-minutes on the phone and I’ll let you know how or if I can help. If I am not the right person, I’ll do my best to get you to the right person. Contact me at (719) 310-6357 for your free 15-minute phone consultation for counseling in Colorado Springs. My specialties include anxiety, trauma, PTSD, toxic relationships, and wholeheartedness.

My style of therapy utilizes an integration of traditional, relational psychotherapy with relational and somatic aspects to help you to connect with your innate wisdom. I am a certified AEDP therapist. I utilize EMDR, AEDP as well as Core Self Reclamation Therapy. I also offer psychedelic therapy because I have found psychedelic journeys and the integration of those journeys to be the missing piece when clients feel like they are stuck in a loop.

I also provide supervision to clinicians wanting to improve their clinical skills and obtain clinical licensure.