A holistic, body/mind integrating psychotherapist and art therapist, my 23 years experience with individuals and couples shapes collaborations in which the client's own wisdom-knowing guides unique journeys into wholeness.

My experiential psychodynamic approach to depth healing and integration incorporates gestalt, applied existential psychology, creativity, guided imagery and dreamwork to resolve family of origin issues, developmental trauma, major life transitions, and explore potent life experiences such as relationships, chronic illness, eldering and identifying as GLBT.

I also facilitate classes based on Artlife Creation, exploring the intuitive creativity inherent throughout our lives, and authored the Sounds True teaching set Artlife: Creative Journeys for Life Healing (http://www.soundstrue.com/shop/Artlife/4273.pd)

I help individuals bring about change in order to live more effective and joyful lives, using Interpersonal, Dialectical and Person-Centered therapies.

Let me provide a safe, validating space and assist you as you face your challenges, discover new choices and find solutions.

What I Can Help With: * Depression and Bipolar Mood Disorder * Healing Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress * Anxiety, Phobias and Obsessive Compulsive Issues * Recovery from Addictions * Grieving and Bereavement * Women's Issues * Career Counseling and Coaching * Coping with Disabilities * Building Self-Esteem * Eating Disorders and Weight Management Issues * Parenting Skills and Issues * Alternative Spirituality

I teach and use the following evidence-based modalities: * Mindfulness Based

Specializing in health and medical issues with adults and seniors. Providing cognitive behavioral therapy, medical hypnosis, and mindfulness training for seniors, their caregivers, and their family.
Specialities include:

Use of cognitive behavioral therapy to manage medical conditions. Depression, anxiety, and stress management Support for caregivers and family members Helping family members and/or seniors adjust to life events Hypnosis to reduce medical symptoms Aid with navigating and understanding medical system Grief resolution

My work involves a deep personal commitment to growing through grief. Specifically, I've developed a short-term therapeutic intervention intended to diminish suffering by expanding stories. It can be experienced independent of, or in collaboration with, ongoing individual psychotherapy. Whatever your losses, sustained or on the horizon, the meaning you make of them requires a capacity to create that, often elusive, 'new normal'. Through a brief process ( 6-12 sessions) we will engage in a collaborative effort to explore new perspectives, aiming to reveal the stories your loss has yet to tell. Ultimately, we will formulate our understandings through a concrete, creative project that memorializes what we discover. I believe that it is not suffering, but meaningless suffering, that defeat us...We can use our suffering to move us forward.

Men, relationships, career, addiction. We have 1 life to live, and I believe in making the most of it.

My passion is facilitating others' restoration of connection to self, others, earth, work, and higher power.

As a Naropa-educated Wilderness Therapist (and certified First Responder) with extensive training in trauma healing, my approach is sensitive, present, and experiential. My approach in couples therapy is informed by Stan Tatkin's PACT model.

I love working with individuals, couples, and groups. I have been effective in helping men rebuild confidence, clarify their Way, get in touch with their emotions, identify the roots of their addictions, and learn how to communicate with their partners. My women clients have benefited from anxiety-reduction, trauma healing, and repatterning of their relationship to men.

Welcome. I am dictated to working with the Intelligence carried in the body and the natural world to help bring healing and transformation to my clients. I work from a heart centered, solution focused technique, where I focus on providing practical and holistic tools, to help guide my clients toward long term stability and change. To do this I use a unique range of treatment modalities including wilderness and body center psychotherapy, contemplative practice and art therapy. I have worked in the mental health field for over 7 years, gathering extensive therapeutic training and experience, working with youth, family, addiction and individuals.

School Psychologist providing psychoeducational evaluations for a variety of reasons for individuals birth through adult. Evaluations for learning disabilities, intellectual disability, giftedness, dyslexia, ADHD, Autism, special education, college accommodations, IEE.

Counseling supports for children ages 4 to 16 years for anxiety, self-esteem, growth mindset, social skills through a combination of play, CBT, DBT, and other techniques based on needs.

Providing support to families going through school-based processes (special education, gifted support, Section 504, RTI/MTSS).

Free initial consultations.

The Intimacy Institute for Sex & Relationship Therapy offers compassionate counseling for couples and individuals. Sex therapy is a specialized area of psychotherapy. We have a team of three trained sex therapists. We offer support to enhance sexual functioning, pleasure, and knowledge. Because sexual intimacy cannot exist without emotional intimacy, we are trained in couples therapy and blend the best practices in both sex and relationship therapy. Common issues in sex therapy include desire discrepancy, premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, painful intercourse, reclaiming sex after cancer, out of control sexual behaviors (sex addictions), healing after the affair, supporting alternative sexual expressions and unconventional turn-ons, and navigating non-monogamous & polyamorous relationships.

Welcome! I am the founder of Innis Integrative Therapy which has been developed to address the confusion and complications related to the physical manifestations of pain and chronic conditions that have underpinnings of trauma. I combine knowledge, expertise and 30 years of experience incorporating three fields of practice to facilitate holistic healing: physical therapy, somatic psychotherapy, and trauma resolution therapy using Somatic Experiencing and Brainspotting modalities. I look forward to meeting you and discovering ways to create a better, more fulfilling life, regardless of your medical conditions or set of limitations.

I am an EFT (Certified Emotionally Focused Couple, Individual, and Family Therapist) and CCTP (Certified Complex Trauma Professional). I specialize in Trauma and Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. I use Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment, Attachment Theory, EMDR and Brainspotting. I love working with people to create lasting change that touches the heart of the person and the relationship. See my website for more information: Nicolpate.com

I offer a free phone consultation. I offer Skype sessions when appropriate.

I am open to working with all kinds of people, including people of any sexual orientation, socio-economic class and ethnicity.