Something in you knows there’s more here than what you’ve already uncovered.
This is for the person who has done the work — read the books, tried the therapy, tracked the patterns — and still feels like they’re circling the edge of something larger. Depth-oriented psychotherapy, ketamine-assisted therapy, and psychedelic integration for adults ready to stop managing and start transforming.
THE KIND OF CHANGE THAT LASTS COMES FROM
Talk therapy can take you far. But for many people — intelligent, self-aware, spiritually curious — it eventually plateaus. You understand your patterns. You can name your wounds. And yet something still hasn’t shifted at the root.
That’s not a failure of effort. It’s a sign that the work needs to go deeper.
At New Beginnings Psychotherapy, I work with people who are ready for that deeper layer. People who want to understand not just what happened to them, but who they actually are — beneath the adaptations, the armor, and the stories that stopped being true a long time ago.
This work is both deeply experiential and highly intentional. We’re not drifting into insight — we’re working toward meaningful, lasting change.
Offices located in Arvada and Denver, Colorado. Blending contemplative and ancient wisdom with contemporary neuroscience.
KETAMINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY
For those who have tried conventional approaches and hit a ceiling.
Ketamine creates a window of neuroplasticity — a rare opportunity for the psyche to reorganize in a way that isn’t so tightly bound by your usual patterns.
While many experiences feel expansive or meaningful, they can also be subtle, nonlinear, or emotionally complex. The value comes from how we work with what emerges — before, during, and especially after the experience.
This isn’t a quick fix or an escape. It’s a carefully supported process designed to help something real shift.
SOMATIC & PARTS-BASED THERAPY
Hakomi | IFS
The body holds what the mind hasn’t yet been able to say.
Hakomi and Internal Family Systems (IFS) share a fundamental orientation: the psyche is not a problem to be solved, but a system to be understood. Both approaches work beneath the narrative mind — one through the body, the other through the architecture of parts — to surface what’s actually organizing your experience.
In practice, this often looks like slowing down. Noticing something subtle — a tightening in the chest, a shift in breath, an impulse to pull away — and staying with it long enough for it to reveal what’s underneath.
It’s gentle, precise, and often reaches places that insight alone can’t access.
PSYCHEDELIC INTEGRATION
You’ve had an experience that opened something. Now what?
Integration is actually where the real work begins — making meaning from non-ordinary states, anchoring insight into daily life, and allowing the experience to translate into something you can actually live from.
I understand this territory — both professionally and personally — and help you make sense of it in a way that is grounded, clear, and relevant to your real life.
Dana L. McDowell, MA, LPC, CEDS
I’ve been practicing since 2006, working at the intersection of somatic awareness, depth psychology, contemplative psychology and clinical psychotherapy.
I’ve also done my own sustained work — which means I don’t approach this from a distance. I know what it’s like to move through layers of patterning and arrive somewhere more honest, more grounded, and more your own.
I don’t sit with clients as an expert on their inner world. I sit with them as someone who knows how to pay attention in the places that matter.
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“Part of what I’ve found with Dana is that I can open up on a level that is not only spiritual but practical. She guides my consciousness in a way that allows me to be curious about myself rather than judgmental."
– J.J., AGE 37
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“I look at the world with new eyes and my experiences feel so much richer. Dana helped me break old patterns and create something genuinely new."
– F.L., AGE 30
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“Your approach is radical and much more deeply human and spiritual."
– DR. SHERRY YOUNG, CSAT
I offer a complimentary 20-minute consultation to see if we’re a good fit. This work isn’t for everyone — and that’s intentional. When it’s right, it’s right.
