Family Therapy in 80433

Welcome to The Grove: A transformative women’s counseling practice in Evergreen, Colorado and online. I'm Whitney, a master's-level licensed therapist who helps women and families work through difficult times - past and present - so they can stop being so hard on themselves and enjoy their lives.

You don't want to fight with your partner. But no matter what you do, you can't seem to avoid it . . . and you can't seem to stop fighting. You're walking on eggshells, and everything you do seems to set your partner off. This can't go on. You need to figure out how to make it better. If you’re struggling to find the right things to say or the right things to do to make your partner happy, I can help. I help couples stop fighting and start communicating.

I started working in the mental health field 25 years ago. I believe in the importance of a therapeutic relationship that is built on trust and safety as my clients develop more insight about themselves and their relationships by applying evidence-based treatment modalities. I approach therapy from a trauma-informed and strength-based lens utilizing CBT, Mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and Play Therapy.

Therapy is an incredibly useful tool that helps with a range of issues, from anxiety to sleep to trauma to relationships. With a therapist’s support, you can understand why difficult things happen to you. If you have talked to friends and family about how you’re feeling, you realize that they tell you to do XYZ and that will surely fix it! But life is a struggle. Therapy allows you an hour a week to focus on yourself. It can help you thrive in your career, make a good marriage great, help you be a fantastic parent, and make your purpose in life a little clearer. Therapy can teach you coping skills: efforts to minimize stress.

Everyone has the ability to make changes that improve their life. Counseling provides an opportunity to talk openly about the challenges you face and can give a fresh perspective on a difficult problem. I work collaboratively with clients to help them gain the insight, tools and understanding necessary to move in the direction of productive change.

I am a fully licensed and board certified clinical mental health therapist and depth psychologist working with clients who struggle with relationship issues, divorce, body image, anxiety, depression, marital concerns, women's issues, midlife issues, and other transitional difficulties, nightmares, communication issues, and on-going or past trauma. I use a trauma-informed depth psychological approach in my work with clients and offer dreamwork for clients interested in exploring the meanings of their dreams.

My clients are often struggling with issues of personal confidence and significance, hungry for change in intimate or familial relationships. Many are feeling unsuccessful as parents or partners, trapped in cycles of conflict. Whatever the struggle, there IS a new way forward for all who equip themselves for the journey.

Everyone's journey in life is filled with challenges that often help us to understand more fully who we are. Sometimes it is helpful to have another perspective, a guide, or tools to navigate these difficult stretches of the journey. I have worked with individuals, couples, and families in counseling for the past 20 years and was an educator prior. I work with a wide variety of clients, but have extensive experience working with anxiety, depression, divorce, parenting, life transitions, personal discovery, and spiritual issues.

It takes strength and vulnerability to do therapy. Sometimes the bravest thing is just showing up. I am a teacher at heart and will take advantage of a teaching moment. I believe you can learn about self and what keeps you stuck, what maintaining factors influence you and the lens you see your world through. I believe in being authentic and curious while exploring possibilities vs labeling and judging. Knowing who we are authentically is powerful. Sometimes the authentic self gets lost, but it is there at your core. "Knowing oneself comes from attending with compassionate curiosity to what is happening within" Gabor Maté.

Many of my patients come to me at a significant crossroad in life. Perhaps a doctor just gave them a life-altering diagnosis. Perhaps they are seeking relief from anxiety or trauma, or need help healing from the loss of a loved one. They may be suffering with long-standing issues that have not responded to traditional treatment. My approach blends medical and psychological insights to address symptoms at the physical and emotional level, restoring a person to optimal wellbeing.

For over 25 years, I've had the privilege and honor of hearing my client's stories and learning about their lives. I believe that developing and nurturing a therapeutic relationship built on trust and mutual respect, as well as creating a safe environment for my clients, is key to a successful therapeutic experience. I treat a variety of emotional and relational difficulties including depression, anxiety and relationship conflicts, as well as parent/child issues and significant life changes.

The Children’s Trauma Center (CTC) provides comprehensive trauma treatment for children ages 3-12. We use treatment models that have proven results. We also believe that imbalances in nutrition, movement, sleep, and connection with others, can have a significant impact on a child’s quality of life and ability to fully participate in effective trauma treatment. At CTC, we attend not only to the trauma treatment, but also to the child's overall health by providing therapeutic "whole health" activities in our indoor garden, kitchen and outdoor space.

I am a licensed psychotherapist studying psychology, psychotherapy, and its intersection with spirituality for almost a decade. We all experience anxiety and depression, and life loses meaning at different times, leaving us feeling stuck and without direction. All these symptoms are our soul's way of calling us back home to ourselves when we are astray too far and/or too long from our true selves. Psychotherapy is one of the first steps to finding our way back home. Only when we are at home within ourselves, we begin to feel at home in the world.

It's time to think about yourself differently. I'm not exactly the touchy feely kind of therapist and won't ask "how does that make you feel" every 5 minutes. I help you get significant, lasting change, not just to feel good talking. I work with individual, couples and families. It's your thoughts and beliefs that cause your problems. If you want change in marriage, trauma, anxiety, depression, anger or even drug/alcohol use, we have to change the way you think about yourself, both individually and within your relationships. When we fix that, everything else falls in line.

I believe that we all struggle from time to time and that none of us, despite appearances, have it all together. I use empathy, respect and compassion to partner with you in your journey towards achieving your wellness goals. Using a strength-based approach, we will work collaboratively to identify your strengths and skills that can be utilized to effectively manage daily stressors as well as larger issues and struggles. Brief episodes of care, longer term, deeper introspective work - all are welcome! I believe you can unlock your own potential and source of resiliency. Email me miranda at mirandatucker.com or 720-924-1048

You are NOT crazy! The part of your brain concerned with survival is likely feeling frantic, causing your logical self to go offline and your emotional self to be dysregulated. Are your old triggers and dysfunctional coping responses intensifying? Trauma, loss, change, conflict, and oppression can make you feel hopeless, lonely, anxious, depressed, and distrusting of you. You don't have to be defined by your past; you can transform your life by overcoming obstacles that keep you stuck and in pain. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi

Are you struggling with the behavior of a Teen, Pre-teen or young child? Are you going through a life transition, divorce, grief, loss? Do you just need someone to support you personally or as a parent? I have over 20 years experience working with Children, Adolescents and Families. I have experience working with ADHD, depression, anxiety, trauma and PTSD, relationship issues, parent-child relationship issues, grief and loss.

When a client comes in, I respect the complex person in front of me. I am patient and compassionate to the person's needs. I offer a fresh perspective to challenge the person to grow within. I use collective modalities and techniques to customize treatment for the individual.

Rachel Friedman Amman, MS, LPC, NCC, is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Rachel’s pronouns are she/her/hers and her therapeutic style is collaborative, solution focused, and phenomenological. Rachel approaches therapy with a holistic, client centered approach to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, using individualized and creative interventions tailored to each client. Rachel is passionate about helping individuals find their authenticity, embrace their intersecting identities, and uncover their unique path to fulfillment, and find or regain a fulfilling, satisfying life in health and happiness.