CONNECTION & JOY ​ARE YOUR BIRTHRIGHT

And I said to my body softly,

I want to be your friend.”

Nayyirah Waheed

​Psychotherapy for Individuals & Couples
In-Person in Boulder & Online throughout Colorado

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Madelyn* has never felt like she belonged.

As the black sheep of her dysfunctional family, everyone always said it was her fault. No matter where she went, she always felt “different” and on the outs.

She spent her life trying to be enough, always falling short. No matter how successful she became or well known in her field, it was never enough. Her feelings never changed.

“What’s wrong with me? I just want to feel good!”

She knew she needed to make a change, but she was unsure where and how to do so.

As the breadwinner of her family, she worried that if she did anything different, all that she had worked for and all of her stability would come crashing down.

Understanding the power of working with an expert to resolve a problem, she pondered what kind of expert could be the leverage she needed to make the changes she wanted.

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 wanted her to rescue them or for whom growing intimacy was closely followed by anxiety.

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 you can’t change other people, no matter how much you love them.

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.

“What’s going on in there!?! How does this attraction thing work anyway?”

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* was ashamed that he grew up in a cult.

Leaving was jarring. He knew he had to go, but that meant losing everyone and everything he loved.

He entered a world he knew hardly anything about. He missed the consistency and cohesiveness offered by the group, but the memories of the abuse made him keep going.

Tossed around in his new life, he felt directionless and embarrassed. Simple decisions like choosing how to dress were challenging because that had always been decided for him, not to mention navigating culture shock in basic interactions.

He had to survive and adapt, FAST.

He made a few friends who took him under their wing. One of them suggested therapy. He balked. Therapy had been forbidden, and he felt the familiar sensations from the brainwashing snap in his head.

His gut had a different feeling, just like when he knew he had to leave. “Maybe there is help for me,” he thought.

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.

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Welcome to Prosopon Therapy

We are somatic therapists who have healed from situations like yours. 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 because they have been there, too.

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.

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Prosopon Offers Treatment and Support for:
  • Trauma and PTSD/c-PTSD
  • Feeling “Stuck”
  • Body patterning tied to beliefs
  • Dynamics related to persistent Physical and Psychological Illness
  • Medically Unexplained Symptoms
  • Childhood Wounding and ​Attachment
  • Survivors of Domestic Abuse, Ritual abuse, Torture, and Cults/High Demand Groups
  • Dissociation
  • 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
Madelyn

Madelyn 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.

The inner journey isn’t the most important journey, it’s the only journey! When Anne got the inside right, the outside fell into place.

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 unique way in the world.

After a good dose of self-compassion, somatic trauma therapy, and cultural exploration, John was able to uncover his authentic self and integrate both the bad and the good from his past.

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.

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is NOW.”

– Proverb of Unknown Origin

NOW is the time to heal. You CAN turn this around.

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