FAQs
ABOUT THE WORK
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It’s therapy — licensed clinical psychotherapy. I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado. That distinction matters legally, ethically, and in terms of the depth of work we can do together. I
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Most therapy works at the level of thought and behavior. That can be very helpful.
What I do also includes the body, the nervous system, and the deeper patterns organizing your experience.
It’s also more collaborative than many people expect. We’re not just talking — we’re paying attention together to what’s happening in real time.
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Self-aware adults who have done some work on themselves and are ready to go deeper. People who are intelligent, curious, and a bit tired of circling the same territory. People drawn to a therapeutic relationship that takes the spiritual dimension of being human seriously. People who sense that the change they’re looking for isn’t available through more of the same approach.
I work with people 18 and older, including elders.
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Yes. I’m a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) and a Mind Body Eating Coach with nearly two decades of experience across the spectrum — anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia, binge eating, and disordered eating more broadly. I integrate this specialty within a whole-person, depth-oriented framework. If this is part of what brought you here, it belongs here.
ABOUT KETAMINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
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Ketamine is a legal medication with decades of medical use. In recent years it has been studied extensively — and prescribed off-label — for treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, eating disorders, PTSD, and OCD. It works differently from conventional antidepressants and can create rapid shifts in mood and perspective. Rather than adjusting serotonin levels over weeks, it stimulates AMPA receptors and creates a burst of neuroplasticity that can begin to shift mood and perception within hours. Effects can last weeks. When used in conjunction with psychotherapy, the results can be significantly more durable.
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Most people find it pleasant. The experience lasts roughly 1–2.5 hours, during which you may feel a sense of distance from your ordinary self — a loosening of familiar mental structures that many describe as expansive. Your motor and verbal capacities are reduced, so you’ll be resting comfortably. Afterward, we spend time together collecting what arose — images, feelings, insights — which becomes the material for our integration work.
It can be difficult to articulate what happened during the experience, yet people often report that the insights feel unusually clear and that something has reorganized, even before they can fully explain how.
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KAP is a three-part process: preparation & intention setting, the medicine session itself, and integration. Preparation sessions help us establish therapeutic depth and set clear intentions. During the medicine session, I’m present with you the whole time. Integration sessions — the most therapeutically important part — help you metabolize what arose and translate it into lasting change.
All medical activities — eligibility screening, prescriptions, and clinical follow-up — are handled by my partner medical teams.
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People with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, eating disorders, PTSD, or OCD who haven’t found adequate relief through other approaches. People who feel psychologically ready to encounter themselves at a deeper level. People willing to do the integration work that makes the experience meaningful over time. We’ll discuss your history and goals thoroughly before moving forward.
ABOUT SOMATIC & PARTS-BASED THERAPY
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Hakomi is a body-centered, mindfulness-based method of experiential psychotherapy developed by Ron Kurtz. It holds that the body is a living record of our psychological history — that our beliefs, coping strategies, and adaptations are encoded not just in thought but in tissue, breath, posture, and gesture. Hakomi-trained therapists learn to read these somatic indicators and work with them directly — helping clients bring unconscious material into awareness not through analysis but through direct, embodied experience.
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Hakomi is unique in that it doesn’t try to argue with or override unconscious patterns — it befriends them. Rather than trying to remove uncomfortable elements of experience, it approaches vulnerability and pain with curiosity and care. The goal is to understand what those patterns were originally for, and to gently offer the psyche experiences that allow them to update.
Hakomi draws from Buddhist and Taoist philosophy, particularly the principles of mindfulness, loving presence, and non-violence. It is one of the most humane therapeutic methods I’ve encountered — which is part of why I’ve built my practice around it.
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Internal Family Systems, developed by Richard Schwartz, understands the psyche as a system of parts, each with its own protective function and history. The goal is not to eliminate or override these parts, but to understand them and build a relationship with them from a place of Self — a quality of presence that is grounded, clear, and compassionate.
IFS work involves approaching each part with curiosity rather than judgment — understanding what it’s protecting, what it’s been carrying, and what it needs. As the relationship between Self and the parts shifts, so does the experience of being you.
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They share a fundamental orientation: curiosity over judgment, parts over pathology, experience over analysis. Hakomi brings somatic attunement — the body as doorway. IFS provides a framework for understanding what lives there. Together they allow for unusually deep, precise work.
ABOUT PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION
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Psychedelic integration is the process of making meaning from a non-ordinary experience — whether that experience was facilitated by a legally administered medicine, part of a ceremonial or retreat context, or something that arose unexpectedly. The insights from these experiences can be profound, but they don’t automatically translate into change. Integration is the work of metabolizing what you encountered and allowing it to reorganize how you live.
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No. Some clients come to me before a planned experience for preparation work. Some come after an experience to process and integrate. Some are simply curious about these approaches and want to explore them in a thoughtful therapeutic context. All of these are valid entry points.
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Yes — and this is some of the most important integration work there is. Challenging experiences during non-ordinary states are not uncommon, and they often carry significant therapeutic potential. What they require is skilled, experienced support. I know this territory from both sides of the room.
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS
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I don’t accept insurance directly, but I can provide a monthly Superbill for potential out-of-network reimbursement with most insurance companies. Many clients find that their OON benefits cover a meaningful portion of the fee.
The reason I don’t take insurance is straightforward: insurance-based practice creates constraints — on session length, treatment approach, and the kinds of diagnoses that can be billed — that are incompatible with the depth of work I do. Choosing not to take insurance is a choice for quality of care.
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I have offices in both Arvada and Denver, Colorado. I see clients in-person and, where appropriate, via telehealth.
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The best way is a conversation. I offer a complimentary 20-minute consultation — not a sales call, but a genuine chance to assess whether this work and this relationship feel right. If I’m not the right fit, I’ll tell you, and I’ll do my best to point you toward someone who is.
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