Therapy For Therapists

It’s time for someone to be here for you.

Let’s get real

No one becomes a therapist without a good reason.

Maybe you were the child your parents used to regulate their own nervous systems. Perhaps there was only room for a helper in your family. Maybe you found belonging and safety in a group by being a confidante. Perhaps being a therapist helps you feel in control and safe in at least some of the relationships in your life. Or maybe a therapist was the only person who was there when you needed someone the most.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg for reasons people find themselves in the chair.

Whatever your reason for entering this profession, what’s most important is this: you have chosen to turn your trials and challenges into medicine for others. I do not believe there is a higher calling, nor a more challenging one. I honor you.

As a therapist, truly believe you work one of the hardest jobs there is. Every day, you must be able to agilely shift from supporting one nervous system to another, one topic to another, one emotional state to another; all the while keeping an awareness of yourself, thinking rapidly, maintaining strong yet compassionate boundaries, holding effective therpeutic form, and managing (despite your best boundaries) the inescapable stress of working for hours a day with dysregulated nervous systems. You truly never know what is about to come through the door, and you have to be ready to meet whatever it is. Then there’s the paperwork, the finances, the legal hurdles, and maybe even managing a business on top of all of that. Oh, and you have to find a way to balance that with a personal life and the always necessary self-care.

Maybe read through that last paragraph again. That is what you choose to take on every day in order to bring healing, relief, and kindness into the world. That is incredible, and you deserve to recognize that.

Therapy for Therapists
in Denver

You became a therapist because you care deeply - about people, about healing, about helping people find liberation from their pasts, about making meaning out of pain.

And while holding space for others can be deeply fulfilling, it can also be quietly exhausting. You know what burnout looks like. You know how compassion fatigue feels in your body. You might question your competence, the worth of your work, your boundaries, or your capacity to keep showing up the way you want to. Sometimes you wonder if you’re even “allowed” to struggle when this is the work you do (spoilers: you are!)

Being a therapist doesn’t make you immune to trauma, grief, anxiety, or self-doubt. In fact, sometimes it makes things harder. The same insight and empathy that make you good at what you do can make you susceptible to experiencing secondary trauma from the stories and distress of others.

I find there is some poetic (twisted?) irony in the fact that often the people who become therapists are the most emotionally sensitive and attuned, and that those people are then emersed in work of the highest emotional intensity.

We can also be the people who are most eager to please - holding ourselves to high expections that fuel perfectionism, overthinking, or a harsh inner critic that turns our victories into ashes in our mouths.

You might be:

  • Carrying clients’ pain in your nervous system long after sessions end.

  • Struggling to disconnect from work or turn off “therapist brain.”

  • Wrestling with imposter syndrome, especially when your own life gets messy.

  • Feeling pressure to always be the grounded, wise one - even when you’re not.

  • Feeling obligated under capitalistic pressures to be in connection when you don’t want to be.

You deserve a space where you don’t have to be the helper - where you can be real, messy, and fully human.

You’re Human First -
Therapist Second
(Read that again)

Many years ago when I was beginning grad school, a professor asked each of us to name what populations we were interested in working with. With an honest heart (and perhaps also a desire to seem clever in front of my new cohort), I said I wanted to be a therapist for therapists.

Clearly, the Universe was listening.

Ever since I began to practice as a therapist myself, there has been an unexplainable prevalence of therapists and other mental health workers in my caseload. Without effort on my part, my caseload has consistently been 20-30% other therapists and mental health workers since the beginning.

While I was at first quite intimidated by this work, over time I have grown to find it deeply meaningful, engaging, fascinating, moving, and honestly fun. Working with other therapists is a marvelous experience for me - one which is characterized with transparency, deep empathy, honesty, and a mutual understanding of the straight-up reality of doing this work.

It’s become an unintentional, but incredibly welcome specialization of mine, and I’ve embraced it as a calling.

I deeply understand the unique mix of strengths and challenges, victories and setbacks that come with sitting in the chair, and have a lot of experience supporting the people who dedicate their lives to relieving suffering.

I would be my privilege to use my years of experience supporting therapists to aid your journey.

Together, we can:

  • Build an authentic relationship with one another based on the reality of your experience, and not what you “should” be feeling / doing as a therapist.

  • Work somatically (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy) to help you notice and release stress, shame, or tension held in your body. We can understand how the history of your body limits your options in and out of the therapist chair. We can support your system in foundationally developing new ways of being in the world that move you closer to a fulfilling and connected life.

  • Use EMDR to process and release the stuck places and secondary traumas that live in your body and nervous system. No matter how good your boundaries are, this work gradually takes a toll. You are doing nothing wrong by being affected - it means that you are a caring human who needs and deserves just as much support as your clients.

  • Explore parts work (IFS-informed) to tend to the inner voices that push you to do more, be better, and never rest. We can connect with the historic and attachment origins of these voices, addressing the pain of that history, and liberating your parts to work for you instead of against you.

  • Rebuild boundaries and balance from the very foundation of your being, so your work feels sustainable, meaningful, and exciting again.

Together, we can overcome the challenging patterns which may have originally lead you to become a therapist, but are no longer serving you. We can help you connect with the inherent strengths and health of those patterns, harnessing the wisdom and strengths of them while alleviating the ways they harm you.

This is not about fixing you—it’s about helping you reconnect to yourself, your body, and the purpose that brought you into this work in the first place.

How I Support Therapists

You Deserve Care, Too

Therapists need and deserve therapy.

REPEAT: YOU need and deserve therapy.

Not because you’re broken - but because you’re human, and no one can do this alone.

If you’re ready to find a space that honors you in all your messy humanity, I’d be honored to work with you. If you’re ready to overcome patterns which lead you to stress, shame, and burnout in your work and personal life - I’m here to help you get there. If you’re ready to reconnect with what makes this work worth doing, and what makes life worth living - let’s go!

Reach out to schedule a free consultation and see what it’s like to be on the other couch - with someone who understands what it’s like to be in your seat.