• “Healing always happens through relationship, whether it is relationship with a therapist, a tree, or a grandmother.”

    — Prentis Hemphill, What It Takes to Heal

  • “The inherent nature of everything is change. It's our preoccupation with a problem that nails it in place.”

    — Yongey Mingyur Rinpohe, In Love with the World

  • “I deserve the right to exist, to take up space, and to embody my most authentic self, especially when this expression does not harm me or anyone else”

    — Lama Rod Owens, The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors

Hi! I’m Sophia

My clinical foundation is rooted in Contemplative Psychotherapy. I have worked in crisis support line, agency, substance use disorder intensive outpatient (SUD IOP), and community mental health settings serving children, adolescents, and adults from a variety of backgrounds, identities, and socioeconomic statuses in English and Spanish.

I’m drawn to working with people navigating trauma, grief, and life transitions. As a trauma therapist, the core of my approach is informed by Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. I draw on strength-based and and person-centered evidenced-based modalities to inform my clinical work including Motivational Interviewing, Solutions-focused Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

As Latine, gender non-conforming, and neurodivergent person, I believe a multicultural lens and social justice approach are integral to the therapeutic process. I’m passionate about working with people who are navigating ethnicity and race challenges, dealing with stress around identity and marginalization, healing from experiences of trauma, and developing self-acceptance.

I draw from body-based, parts, and contemplative approaches to help you tune into your strength, values, knowing, and spiritual connection. My hope is that therapy becomes a space where you can develop a kinder relationship with all parts of yourself—the brilliant, the loving, the funky, and the messy.

For fun I enjoy plant parenting, creating herbal remedies, knitting, reading, backpacking, meditating, and hanging out with family and friends.

Training & Professional Development

Therapy Rates

$150/ 55-minute session

Sliding scale available

I accept Cigna, Kaiser, UnitedHealth, and Medicaid (CCHA) insurance

HSA/FSA accepted

I reserve client slots for those who are uninsured or underinsured requiring low-cost options through Open Path Psychotherapy Collective. You may visit Open Path to sign up. If I do not have an opening with Open Path, check out the directory for clinicians with current openings

I’m happy to provide a superbill to help you with insurance reimbursement and out-of-network benefits

  • The first chunk of each session we touch in on what is going on in your life, present or past. We decide together what we will focus on for the session. We can only do so much in 55 minutes that’s why we choose a theme to explore. From there, we delve into the felt sense of the experience. Instead of talking about it, we feel into it directly. We’ll try things out to learn more about it, create a restorative experience, develop a resource, or process trauma. The last ten minutes or so we tune into new insights, changes, or goodness that arose during the session to reinforce the neuropathways that are developing. The whole thing is a collaborative and creative process.

  • You don’t have to. We work with what you bring in. We explore things as you are ready to touch. You get to say “no”, “not yet”, “not that”.  There are several ways that we work without naming certain experiences or going into the story of them.

  • Somatic therapy is different from talk therapy in some ways. We are weaving in the body’s wisdom including sensation, felt sense, movement, posture, and gesture alongside emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and memories. We might explore themes by trying on different postures, walking through the room, pushing on a wall, holding a pillow or something else to investigate through the body, emotions, and mind. This can feel different for some clients who are more familiar with telling the story of what’s happened or addressing mostly thoughts and beliefs.

  • Contemplative psychotherapy focuses on befriending all the parts of who we are. It doesn’t mean we have to like or agree with them. It’s more about getting to know all of you to see what new possibilities may arise. Contemplative psychotherapy also tunes into the present moment, what is happening right here, right now.

  • I specialize in trauma, relational wounding, grief, social wounding/oppression themes, and multicultural themes. I am experienced working with BIPOC, LGBTQ, and neurodivergent communities.

  • Try it. Typically within eight sessions clients have a sense if the approach is a good fit and if I’m a good fit. You’re not committed to staying. What matters most to me is that you find what works for you and I understand that I might not be the person. This is a great way for you to practice listening to yourself and honoring yourself.

  • Unfortunately, the current health care system, as it is currently designed, does not offer an ideal set up for clients nor clinicians. The cost of a session includes more than just the 55 minutes that we meet together. It includes time I spend in training, consultation, researching, administrative tasks, billing, marketing, bookkeeping, accounting, care coordination, vacation time, and sick time. It is a rate that allows me to meet my daily living needs and sustain my wellbeing in order to continue to provide counseling services.

    My business model strives to create access to care for a variety of economic needs. I reserve 25% of my client slots for people with Medicaid and 10% for reduced fee sliding scale options through OpenPath Collective. I offer sliding scale options to increase affordability. I accept several insurances (Kaiser, Cigna, UnitedHealth) so that clients may cover their care through insurance. 

I acknowledge that I live in the territory of hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho), Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Nations, according to Native Land, and that Colorado’s Front Range is home to many Native peoples. I further recognize I occupy this land due to the broken Treaties of Fort Laramie of 1851 and 1868.

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