Boulder Semita Counseling

Individual Therapy

60-Minute Sessions:

We will spend time exploring what works best for you. Whether you prefer direct guidance or to take the lead in the direction of your sessions, show up with or without an agenda, or find meaning in cognitive, somatic (body-centered) or transpersonal ways of relating, combinations of many elements are possible.

Sessions are offered: Via telehealth video or phone options for residents throughout the state of Colorado. Introductory sessions are offered via telehealth video or by phone. In-person individual sessions are full at this time.

Modalities, Specialties, and Philosophies:

~ Art Therapy: Art materials and interventions used to support healing & self-insight. Attachment-Based Therapy: Education regarding quality of early childhood attachments effecting social & emotional development as an adult.

~ Brain Injury Specific, Neurodiversity, Disability-Advocacy: Brain injury psychoeducation, interventions, and resources (themes of grief & loss, self-identity). Neurodiversity and persons with disability, specific interventions to support self-advocacy and self-esteem.

~ Compassion-Focused Therapy: The therapist leading with compassion for and on behalf of the client, and guiding clients to self-compassion.

~ Clinical Dream Therapy/Dreamwork: Methods of working with dreams through somatic focusing, dream theory, and experiential explorations through interventions, practical assessment & waking life application, education to promote sleep hygiene and dreaming, nightmare reduction.

~ Eclectic Therapy: Diverse methods and modalities used, a toolbox of approaches the therapist employs from a client-centered perspective.

~ Emotionally-Focused Therapy: Emotion education and exploration, emotion-regulation methods, mindfulness-based applications to promote mastery of choices regarding emotional reactivity/responses.

~ Existential Focus: Exploration of client concerns and beliefs about life, examining philosophical questions such as life's meaning and purpose.

~ Gestalt and "Parts Work": Working with parts of self and/or relationships that relate to the whole, increasing awareness, freedom, and self-mastery through present-moment experiences.

~ Identity Exploration and Transitions: Exploration of factors creating identity or healthy dissolution of identity/re-creating identity, (ancestral, cultural, economic, gender, racial, relationship-based belief systems such as monogamy/polyamory transitions, religious/spiritual/non-religious/atheist belief systems, social, sexual orientation and expression).

~ Jungian Approach: An approach focused on a person’s tendency toward growth and exploration into the historical causes of psychological challenges, belief in engaging the whole person, and the exploration of symbols and archetypes providing insight into the unconscious mind.

~ Metaphor & Storytelling: The use of symbolic language and stories to amplify or describe and create additional sensory understanding of an aspect being explored.

~ Mindfulness-Based Methods: Increased internal self-awareness (thoughts, sensations, emotions) and external awareness (surroundings, situations) to promote reduced reactivity and increase self-mastery (through a variety of practices such as forms of meditation).

~ Motivational Interviewing: The therapist employs a specific series of questions to enhance a client’s motivation to change, creating client-insight and possible methods of goal-setting.

~ Narrative Methods: Methods that aim to separate the client from the challenge, allowing the client to gain distance and perspective rather than internalize issues, "rewriting" a story the client holds in order to gain freedom.

~ Post-Psychedelic Experience Integration: Supporting a client in maximizing the therapeutic benefits and minimizing harm from psychedelic experiences, integrating and making change based on new insights, coping strategies and adjustment, addressing content that emerged (traumatic and/or enlightening), supporting non-rational activities (creativity, movement, art, nature).

~ Relational Therapy & Communication Skills: A focus on the client's social world, relationships, support-system, and relationship with communities. An emphasis on good relationships being essential for well-being and self-esteem, development of communication skills to improve relationships, including the use of Nonviolent-Communication methods and boundary-setting.

~ Religious/Spiritual Abuse & Cult Recovery: Specific to survivors of religious/spiritual abuse and/or cults, the use of psychoeducational methods, recovery of unmet developmental aspects, understanding harmful group dynamics/tactics (coercion, manipulation, control), focus on recovery from shame and guilt into self-esteem and self-love, working through grief & loss, exploration of belief systems, and differentiation of both harmful and meaningful experiences within an abusive group, religion, or cult.

~ Religious/Faith-Based/Spiritual Counseling Transitions: Exploration of spiritual, religious, and/or faith-based aspects of a person’s belief system (and transitions toward or away from beliefs systems; questioning) related to a clients' well-being and unique individual goals and path.

~ Somatic (Body-Centered) Therapy: Specific methods and approaches to access sensation and awareness of the body's wisdom, various healing methods and meditations, such as Focusing (a technique of accessing the felt sense in the body, sensations providing information about situations, thoughts, and feelings.

~ Strengths-Based Therapy: An emphasis on client's strengths (abilities, skills, talents, virtues, and values), re-framing negative into positive when appropriate.

~ Transpersonal Therapy: Experiences in which the sense of identity or self extends beyond the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of humankind, life, psyche or cosmos, including consciousness studies.

Philosophical Approaches and Underpinnings for all Therapies:

~ Client-Centered/Person-Centered: Based in a client’s ability to find their own solutions, the therapist’s trust in the client’s wisdom, supporting the client’s sense of direction, and making use of the most supportive modalities and philosophies for each unique person.

~ Culturally Sensitive/Multicultural: The therapist's understanding and respect for a client’s background and belief system related to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and other important aspects making up someone's culture and/or identity.

~ Psychoeducational: Use of educational and psychological resources, along with discussion to support knowledge and empowerment for the client, specific to subjects they are inquiring about.

~ Humanistic Approach: An approach focusing on the importance of leading one's most fulfilling life through living authentically, based on the principle that each person is unique, emphasizing growth and self-actualization.

~ Positive Psychology: A form of psychology and philosophy focusing on the positive aspects of a client's progress and abilities, client strengths, virtues, and values that enable them to thrive and flourish.

~Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Education: An approach to communication based on principles of nonviolence, aiming to increase empathy and improve quality of life in relationships.

Area of Support:
Ancestral trauma and healing, anxiety, depression, brain injury recovery, career counseling, coping skills, developmental disorders or challenges, divorce, emotion-regulation, family conflict, grief & loss, identity transformations, intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, LGBTQIA+ identity and challenges, life coaching, life transitions and change, marital and premarital challenges, mindfulness-based skills, non-monogamy/polyamory transitions and identity, nonviolent communication methods, parenting/parenting skills, peer relationship dynamics, racial/cultural identity, relationship issues, religious/spiritual abuse-cultic/high-demand group recovery, spiritual and existential coaching, stress, trauma (PTSD and C-PTSD), and women's challenges.
Frequency of Sessions, Rates, and Insurance Coverage:

I work with each client to support a comfortable system of frequency of sessions and their unique financial capacity. Full rate: $140 per session.

Insurance policies excepted: Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Colorado, Cigna, Oscar Health, Oxford, Quest Behavioral Health, and United Health.

. I use Headway for insurance policies, click web link here for getting set up through the insurance policies listed above.

I support folks who pay for services upfront and would like invoices to submit for insurance reimbursement.

I offer a sliding-scale based on availability.

Boulder Semita Counseling

Susan E. Brown, MA, LPCC, CBIS

Individual Therapy

60-Minute Sessions:

Sessions are offered: Via telehealth video or phone options for residents throughout the state of Colorado. Introductory sessions are offered via telehealth video or by phone. In-person individual sessions are full at this time.

Modalities, Specialties, and Philosophies:

~ Art Therapy: Art materials and interventions used to support healing & self-insight. Attachment-Based Therapy: Education regarding quality of early childhood attachments effecting social & emotional development as an adult.

~ Brain Injury Specific, Neurodiversity, Disability-Advocacy: Brain injury psychoeducation, interventions, and resources (themes of grief & loss, self-identity). Neurodiversity and persons with disability, specific interventions to support self-advocacy and self-esteem.

~ Compassion-Focused Therapy: The therapist leading with compassion for and on behalf of the client, and guiding clients to self-compassion.

~ Clinical Dream Therapy/Dreamwork: Methods of working with dreams through somatic focusing, dream theory, and experiential explorations through interventions, practical assessment & waking life application, education to promote sleep hygiene and dreaming, nightmare reduction.

~ Eclectic Therapy: Diverse methods and modalities used, a toolbox of approaches the therapist employs from a client-centered perspective.

~ Emotionally-Focused Therapy: Emotion education and exploration, emotion-regulation methods, mindfulness-based applications to promote mastery of choices regarding emotional reactivity/responses.

~ Existential Focus: Exploration of client concerns and beliefs about life, examining philosophical questions such as life's meaning and purpose.

~ Gestalt and "Parts Work": Working with parts of self and/or relationships that relate to the whole, increasing awareness, freedom, and self-mastery through present-moment experiences.

~ Jungian Approach: An approach focused on a person’s tendency toward growth and exploration into the historical causes of psychological challenges, belief in engaging the whole person, and the exploration of symbols and archetypes providing insight into the unconscious mind.

~ Metaphor & Storytelling: The use of symbolic language and stories to amplify or describe and create additional sensory understanding of an aspect being explored.

~ Mindfulness-Based Methods: Increased internal self-awareness (thoughts, sensations, emotions) and external awareness (surroundings, situations) to promote reduced reactivity and increase self-mastery (through a variety of practices such as forms of meditation).

~ Motivational Interviewing: The therapist employs a specific series of questions to enhance a client’s motivation to change, creating client-insight and possible methods of goal-setting.

~ Narrative Methods: Methods that aim to separate the client from the challenge, allowing the client to gain distance and perspective rather than internalize issues, "rewriting" a story the client holds in order to gain freedom.

~ Religious/Faith-Based/Spiritual Counseling Transitions: Exploration of spiritual, religious, and/or faith-based aspects of a person’s belief system (and transitions toward or away from beliefs systems; questioning) related to a clients' well-being and unique individual goals and path.

~ Strengths-Based Therapy: An emphasis on client's strengths (abilities, skills, talents, virtues, and values), re-framing negative into positive when appropriate.

~ Transpersonal Therapy: Experiences in which the sense of identity or self extends beyond the individual or personal to encompass wider aspects of humankind, life, psyche or cosmos, including consciousness studies.

Philosophical Approaches and Underpinnings for all Therapies:

~ Client-Centered/Person-Centered: Based in a client’s ability to find their own solutions, the therapist’s trust in the client’s wisdom, supporting the client’s sense of direction, and making use of the most supportive modalities and philosophies for each unique person.

~ Culturally Sensitive/Multicultural: The therapist's understanding and respect for a client’s background and belief system related to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and other important aspects making up someone's culture and/or identity.

~ Psychoeducational: Use of educational and psychological resources, along with discussion to support knowledge and empowerment for the client, specific to subjects they are inquiring about.

~ Humanistic Approach: An approach focusing on the importance of leading one's most fulfilling life through living authentically, based on the principle that each person is unique, emphasizing growth and self-actualization.

~ Positive Psychology: A form of psychology and philosophy focusing on the positive aspects of a client's progress and abilities, client strengths, virtues, and values that enable them to thrive and flourish.

~Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Education: An approach to communication based on principles of nonviolence, aiming to increase empathy and improve quality of life in relationships.

Area of Support:

Frequency of Sessions, Rates, and Insurance Coverage:

I work with each client to support a comfortable system of frequency of sessions and their unique financial capacity. Full rate: $140 per session.

Insurance policies excepted: Aetna, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Colorado, Cigna, Oscar Health, Oxford, Quest Behavioral Health, and United Health.

. I use Headway for insurance policies, click web link here for getting set up through the insurance policies listed above.

I support folks who pay for services upfront and would like invoices to submit for insurance reimbursement.

I offer a sliding-scale based on availability.

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