YOU DESERVE
CONNECTION & JOY
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
– Helen Keller
Psychotherapy for Individuals & Couples
In-Person in Boulder & Online throughout Colorado
Maria* has always carried a heavy load.
Growing up in a dysfunctional family, she learned early on to take responsibility for everything—whether it was hers to carry or not. She pushed herself to succeed, believing that if she could just do well enough, things would finally feel different.
And in many ways, she did succeed. She built a career, gained respect in her field, and became the reliable one—the person everyone could count on. But no matter how much she accomplished, that nagging sense of dissatisfaction never left. It was exhausting.
“What’s wrong with me? I should feel better than this.”
She knew something had to change, but she wasn’t sure what—or how.
As the breadwinner of her family, she couldn’t afford to take risks lightly. If she made the wrong move, everything she had built could be at stake. And yet, the thought of continuing like this—running on empty, carrying the weight of the world—was starting to feel impossible.
She understood the value of working with an expert to solve a problem. What she needed now was the right kind of expert—the kind who could help her break the patterns that had kept her stuck for so long.
Oscar’s* body always had some new ache, pain, or symptom.
His brain fog, fatigue, and pain make it hard for him to continue working – especially in a job he happens to hate.
When he goes to the doctor, the testing comes back “normal.” Levels are in range. Scans are clear. Tests are inconclusive, at best. The more he tries to get answers, the more hopeless he feels.
Last week, he took the expired pain medications left over from a minor surgery. The week before that, he woke up on Saturday morning to the kind of hangover he hadn’t had since college and a nagging feeling that he kept drinking after he got home from the birthday party to ease his way to sleep.
He’s scared of what could happen next.
His demons make it feel like he’s walking on a tightrope.
He yearns to be happy at work and in love, but he barely has the energy to sustain his current life, let alone make a huge life change.
He searches for answers about his symptoms on the internet and keeps stumbling upon trauma and CPTSD material.
“Yeah, my parents were a little distracted, and kids at school could be mean, but how could that cause trauma?! I wasn’t in a war, and no one has ever hit me.”
Anne* yearned for an empowering relationship full of closeness and respect.
But somehow, she kept choosing partners who needed her to rescue them—partners for whom intimacy felt like a threat rather than a foundation.
Things would go well for the first few months, but eventually, especially if they moved in together, the same problems would arise.
She learned the hard way that love alone wasn’t enough to fix someone—or to keep her from losing herself.
She knew she was missing something but couldn’t put her finger on it.
As much as the revelation baffled her, Anne saw that she was the common denominator.
Why did she keep falling for the same kind of person? What was pulling her toward struggle instead of stability?
She was ready to stop the pattern.
She picked up the phone, ready to rewrite her love story.
Dana* and Chandra* have been through a lot together.
Their relationship began when they were at the peak of their personal and professional power, when the sky was the limit.
They traveled, bought a house, got married, and celebrated all of the blissful life experiences available in a beautiful partnership.
Then, the cracks started to show.
Dana grew up in a high-demand religious group. She had been able to escape as a young adult and thought she had outrun the challenges that she had faced in her past.
Chandra thought she had had a “normal” upbringing. When Dana started to have random crying spells and began talking about things that didn’t seem to make sense, Chandra was understandably concerned and sad.
Chandra tried to reason with Dana, but that just made Dana distrust Chandra. Chandra started to feel her own triggers for the first time. The overwhelming emotion felt out of control, and both began to fear for their future.
They decided together that it was time to reach out to a couples counselor who understood cults, trauma, and relationships.
John* had always lived with a sense of unease.
Anxiety followed him everywhere—sometimes a quiet hum in the background, other times a crushing wave that made even simple decisions feel overwhelming. He could power through when he had to, but no matter how much he accomplished, the tension never let up.
He hated how much time he spent second-guessing himself. What if he made the wrong choice? What if he embarrassed himself? What if people could see how tightly wound he was beneath the surface?
He tried to manage it on his own. He read books, listened to podcasts, pushed himself to “just get over it.”
But no matter how hard he worked, the anxiety never fully went away.
One day, a friend suggested therapy. He balked. Therapy was for people who had real problems, right? Besides, the idea of opening up to a stranger made his stomach knot.
And yet—somewhere deep in his gut—he knew something had to change.
With his friend’s help, he picked up the phone, allowing himself to get the support he needed and deserved.
Naomi* and Tim* were at a loss.
She just couldn’t understand why he was so emotional, and he frankly despised her efficiency and rationality.
Naomi could see that he felt run over and dismissed by her tendency towards the rational, but she also could not see how being so emotional was useful.
Tim was tired of begging and trying to explain to Naomi the importance of feelings to him and his rage at being dismissed for so long was starting to scare him.
He no longer felt like himself anymore.
Naomi and Tim could feel how special their connection was and they felt this was something worth fighting for.
Something had to give, however, and both of them were scared. Each thought, “If I give in, the other one will ‘win,’ and I won’t get my needs met.”
They knew they needed a “referee” and decided to start their couples counseling journey.
We get it. We can help.
By using body, emotional, relational, and thinking approaches to counseling, we help our clients discover their authentic selves.
We do not just sit back and wait for you to discover your truth all by yourself. You’ve done enough loneliness. We listen deeply, and we guide you through experiences that rapidly lead you to insight and strength, finally getting to the bottom of what has been plaguing you for so long.
We understand that life’s twists and turns can lead us to shame and isolation. Prosopon is a judgment-free space where we believe that even the most challenging behavior originally came from a place of wisdom and intelligence. Our gentle but direct, compassionate, and grounded approach to healing has led many clients from confusion and complexity to strength and clarity.
Through our work together, our clients achieve inner freedom so they can live lives they know deep down they were always meant to live.
Welcome to Prosopon Therapy
We are somatic therapists who take a holistic approach. We’ve helped many clients make their suffering and symptoms a memory in the past.
The complex experience of trauma, and the body-mind symptoms that come with it, are indescribable to people who have never lived it. At Prosopon, we recruit clinicians who are not only highly trained trauma therapists who continue to learn every day but who also have the capacity to deeply empathize with you.
You are unique, and your healing should be, too.
- We use body approaches because trauma lives in the body.
- We use relational approaches because trauma makes relationships hard.
- We use thinking approaches because trauma scrabbles the mind and darkens the thoughts.
- We focus on emotions because trauma either makes our emotions into tidal waves or turns our emotions off completely.
We pull out all the stops to help you create a team because, sometimes, that one highly specific thing makes all the difference.
Call now if you’re ready for therapy that treats the whole person.
What We Offer
Prosopon Offers Treatment and Support for:
- Trauma and PTSD/c-PTSD
- Anxiety
- Dissociation
- Trauma without memories
- Body patterning tied to beliefs
- Childhood Wounding and Attachment
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Chronic Illness
- Life after Domestic Abuse, Ritual Abuse, Torture, and Cults/High Demand Groups
- Unusual Experiences that are difficult to talk about
- Functional Neurological Disorders (FND), including Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES)
- Spirituality and Spiritual Emergencies
- Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), Giftedness and other forms of Neurodiversity
- Dating/Intentional Partner Selection, Relationships, and Sexuality, especially after trauma
- Oppression/Privilege Dynamics
- Death and Dying
Maria
Maria knows her worth and feels the abundance of connection around her.
By engaging in somatic and relational psychotherapy, she got to the bottom of how her upbringing shaped her view of herself and the world.
She has achieved more in her career than she ever thought possible by learning to seek out people and projects that resonate with her authentic self instead of trying to fit herself into a performative box.
Not only does she continue to support her family, but she also feels more joy and connection during their time together.
Oscar
Oscar gets it now, and his symptoms are under control.
He recognizes that he is a survivor of neglect, which created a chronic stress environment in his nervous system. That stressful environment is what caused all of his mysterious symptoms, and he now has the tools he needs to heal and live a life of loving himself, which in turn has attracted the love of his life and a better direction in his work.
Anne
Anne discovered the root of her unhelpful pattern, followed by the relationship she always yearned for.
Anne no longer felt drawn to relationships that drained her—her attraction had shifted, like a compass finally pointing true north. For the first time, love felt steady and mutual, a space where she could be herself without the weight of fixing or proving.
Dana and Chandra
Dana and Chandra worked through their trauma and are back in business.
Even though Dana had the more recognizably intense background, Chandra found out she had some trauma, too. Once they cleared the body memories of the past, they were able to carry on even closer and more joyfully than they were before.
John
John found his own sense of ease in the world.
At first, therapy felt awkward—like trying to speak a language he barely understood. But session by session, something shifted. He learned to recognize the anxious thoughts without letting them dictate his every move. The tension that had gripped him for so long began to loosen, and for the first time in years, he felt a quiet, steady sense of ease in his body.
Naomi and Tim
Naomi and Tim learned to honor their own and each other’s gifts.
They were finally able to see that neither person was “right,” and both had unique offerings and needs in the relationships. Naomi understood that her bent toward logic was a coping mechanism she used to deal with her family’s alcoholism, and Tim saw that his emotional sensitivity was on the higher side and that he did not receive the support he needed from his emotionally immature parents.