Reed Lindberg, M.A., L.P.C., is the Managing Director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute. He is a couples therapist with 20 years experience. He refers to his work as "Relationship, Sex and Romance Counseling". Reed works to restore playfulness and trust to a relationship that may have grown mired in everyday life. His therapy is a mutual exploration of a couple's issues and strengths. He works with both individuals and couples.

Reed uses an existential perspective supplemented by Gestalt therapy and other approaches. Existential therapy starts from the assumption that we do not have a "static self" and are free to make significant changes in our lives and in the ways that we relate to each other. It encourages each person's freedom while building relationship. It works with authenticity. Neither freedom nor connectedness are ignored.

Reed understands that current life choices rest on a bedrock of past events, but that we are fully capable of revising outmoded ways of coping. The past is important therapeutically in so far as it impacts the present. Reed respects the difficulty in dealing with seemingly insurmountable situations and the impact of trauma from the past.

A therapist must be willing to "go there" with clients if he is to help them extricate themselves from the impact of the past. But he believes that it is the release of creativity and authentic relatedness in the present that is the aim of psychotherapy.

Reed also works with language and communication to help change the style of a couple's dynamics. Resentments and even anger may tinge a couple's interactions - a trusted third party, through observation and coaching, can help modify the words and attitudes that bring frustration to a relationship. Reed works with couples of all sexual orientations, and feels privileged to share in the inner and interpersonal worlds of his clients and to work with them on their personal and relationship issues.

To understand, respect, and be present to the lived reality of others is one of the great privileges of living in relationship and of being a psychotherapist.