Ideal for those interested in contemplative and mindful healing
Somatic therapy: Focusing on the body's role in transforming behavior, integrating body awareness and movement with counseling skills.
Contemplative therapy: Merging in-depth training in cultivating mindfulness and compassion with therapeutic work.
Transpersonal therapy: Reconnecting the spiritual dimensions of human experience with traditional theoretical perspectives.
Wilderness therapy: Integrating therapy with experiential and nature-based wisdom.
Create effective change: Our interns are trained in stages of change/motivational interviewing, and are ready to help you make positive changes in your life.
Referrals: If an initial evaluation reveals that your needs would be better served elsewhere, we will provide referrals to local therapists and resources.
Client-centered and wellness-informed model
Our focus begins and ends with the needs of each client.
Treatment plans are reviewed by the director, and evaluated at least every six months.
As a wellness-informed model, we specialize in treatment of depression, anxiety, trauma, bereavement, and adjustment issues.
Group and individual services are available.
Emergency Phone Numbers
Feeling overwhelmed, stressed, out of control? Struggling with the idea of killing yourself? You can get immediate support in the following ways.
- You can call 911 or go to the closest emergency room.
- You can call 303-447-1665 (a 24/7 local crisis support line) or go to http://coloradocrisisservices.org/. Chat services are available on line 4:00-12:00 p.m. at http://coloradocrisisservices.org/chat/
- For veterans: Veterans Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255 Press 1 or Text to 838255
Additional Resources
The following link has information about many important resources for a variety of issues you may be struggling with: http://psychcentral.com/lib/common-hotline-phone-numbers/
Joy Redstone, LCSW, CAC III
(She/Her/Hers)
Joy Redstone is a licensed clinical social worker and addiction counselor (CAC III), as well as being adjunct faculty at Naropa and University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work. Joy received her Master of Social Work degree from Boston College in 1995 and completed post graduate certificates in addiction counseling and clinical supervision. She is a writer and artist, and contributes regularly to the Daily Camera. She began her career in Boston, MA and worked at Pine St. Inn and New England Medical Center.
Her work has focused on the intersection of mental health struggles, addiction, and oppression and has been characterized by a commitment to advocacy and social justice. She served as the Executive Director of Bridge House for seven years and was recognized for excellence in service delivery. Joy began her work at Naropa in 2012, and has worked in alcohol and drug education before assuming the role of crisis clinician. She became Director of Naropa Community Counseling (NCC) in 2015. Joy also serves as a Board President for the Grief Support Network.
Joy offers vision, planning and program design for NCC, as well as clinical supervision and training for interns. Joy’s therapeutic approach draws on motivational interviewing, her undergraduate degree in comparative religious studies, and uses mindfulness to address the existential questions of meaning and suffering that underlie much of our seeking. Joy’s background in social work and systems theory informs her commitment to the individual’s journey towards laughter, beauty and integration.
Bill Monroe, LCSW, LAC
(He/Him/His)
Bill Monroe is a licensed clinical social worker and licensed addiction counselor. He received his Master in Social Work degree in 2001 from the University of Washington. Bill’s professional background reflects one of his core values, to be on a path of continued growth and learning. As such, Bill has provided mental health and addiction recovery services in varied settings, from the outdoors (Wilderness Therapy), to primary care offices and hospital emergency rooms, to inpatient and outpatient programs. He has worked with clients of all ages and with diverse populations including Native Alaskan and Indian youth, homeless individuals, and our military veterans.
Along with his experience as a therapist, Bill has been a coach, mediator, facilitator, clinical and administrative supervisor, and crisis clinician. Bill’s therapeutic style and interventions are informed by Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Brainspotting and Harm Reduction. When not at work, Bill is likely skiing in Colorado’s mountains, playing guitar with friends, or spending time with his family.
August Perez, focus on trauma, relationships and attachment issues
(She/Her/Hers)
August’s background in the mental health field has been primarily focused in crisis and trauma work, giving her over eight years of experience in working with individuals, couples, and families to find healing and growth. After focusing on trauma and anxiety disorders in her undergraduate and graduate studies, August knew that she wanted to continue to work with those who experienced the sometimes intrusive and disruptive symptoms that these disorders bring. Her exposure to a diverse population has brought her many opportunities to work various roles, including family advocacy work, supporting youth in recovery, working with individuals experiencing crisis, and life coaching using mindfulness practices.
August’s approach to therapy is one centered on the client, couple, or family, and adapts to whatever is needed by that system. The mindfulness approach is one that keeps August’s therapeutic style grounded in the present moment and utilizes the therapeutic relationship itself as a vehicle of change and healing. August holds her LPCC and has her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in contemplative psychotherapy and Buddhist psychology from Naropa University.
Kristel England
Kristel adapts to the needs of the client when offering art therapy and believes anyone can benefit from the creative power of engaging in mean-making through the art process. As a transpersonal art therapist, she believes that every person has the potential to tap into their creativity for health and healing. Art is for everyone, and no artistic skills are needed! Kristel will work with you to discover your own way of using art or creative expression as a meaningful tool for personal insight. She currently offers telehealth art therapy sessions to clients and welcomes working with individuals.
Applying a person-centered, strengths-based approach to therapy, she also incorporates attachment, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, art-based DBT strategies, and PhotoTherapy techniques into her counseling style. Special interests include issues around grief and loss, bereavement, existential concerns, anxiety and depression, trauma, and life transitions.
Kristel’s background includes working with adults with severe mental conditions and elders in hospice care with cognitive decline along with their caregivers and families. Kristel is a registered psychotherapist and holds a master's degree from Naropa University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling program with an emphasis in Transpersonal Art Therapy. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her family and dog, gardening, getting artsy, and listening to podcasts.
Sarah Hay
(She/Her/Hers)
Sarah has worked as a guide on international and wilderness expeditions, supported humanitarian assistance efforts abroad, and has served as a teacher and a mental health counselor in a variety of settings.
Sarah's practice often blends evidence-based Behavioral practices, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Behavioral Activation, with mindfulness practice, energy work and humor. She believes that each of us possess our own unique, clear voice of wisdom that guides us towards internal and external harmony. She hopes to support her clients in accessing this clarity.
Sarah holds a Master of Education from Harvard University and a Master of Social Work, with a focus on mental health, from University of Washington. In addition to her clinical work with Naropa Community Counseling, Sarah serves as adjunct faculty with Naropa's Psychology undergraduate department. Outside of work, Sarah is a proud resident of Nederland, where she makes pottery, practices yoga and plays in the mountains with her family.
Hannah Horowitz
Hannah originally hails from Sonoma, California, and came into her own in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now in her third year of Naropa’s Transpersonal Counseling Program, Hannah is a registered psychotherapist and brings to her role with NCC experience in the fields of addiction science, yoga and mind-body modalities, motivational interviewing, and arts-informed education and counseling.
In her work, Hannah honors the complex mixture of the external and internal that fashion how we show up in this world. She has a particular love for helping people to engage with all pieces in themselves - from cultural influences to early childhood experiences to personality structures - and believes that by getting to know all parts of ourselves we can compassionately, wisely grow.
Prior to coming to Naropa, Hannah received a BA in English and Sociology and an MA in English from Tulane University. She has experience teaching creative writing to people of all ages and backgrounds. Hannah believes that our use of language has a tremendous impact on our relationship to the world, and she is endlessly excited by the potential of the spoken and written word to reconstruct reality. Her favorite color is blue, her favorite tree is a redwood, and her favorite fruit is a raspberry.
Jamie Lowy
Jamie is a sunshine chasing, adventure seeking, and avocado loving, healer who constantly walks the path of personal growth and development. She once struggled with being in control, feeling overwhelmed, fighting perfectionism, and fear of the unknown – until she started living from a place of love. Jamie is grateful and proud of her journey as it has given her the ability to slow down, quiet her mind, and strengthen her connection to Spirit.
Jamie completed her undergraduate degree in speech language and hearing science with a minor in linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is currently completing her Master of Arts in Counseling at Regis University. She works with young adults as a life skills coach at Expanding Roots Wellness, is a registered psychotherapist, a certified Speech Language Pathologist Assistance, and a trained yoga teacher.
Jamie enjoys creating a comforting space for people to tap into their authentic selves. She is known to create small-stepping-stone routines that eliminate resistance. Jamie is skilled in a strengths-based approach and possesses the ability to listen with the whole self: heart, mind, body, and spirit. After clocking time with Jamie, her hope is that people will walk away with a deep breath and the knowledge that their unique story is heard, valued, and important.
When she is not with clients, Jamie is practicing yoga, dancing to music, or traveling to a new country.
Megan Best
Megan is a third-year graduate student pursuing a master's degree in clinical mental health counseling at the University of Northern Colorado. She believes strongly in the capability of each person to forge their own path through life’s transitions, obstacles, and challenges. She views the counseling relationship as a tool to help individuals tap into their own inner wisdom and capacity for healing. Counseling is a spontaneous process that can be aided by mindfulness, humor, body awareness, role-play, artistic materials and media, or anything that becomes relevant and meaningful in the moment. Her honesty, authenticity, and willingness to be present and sit with another’s experience help her to create a safe and non-judgmental space for her clients. Special interests include relationship concerns, sexuality and sex positivity, body image, trauma, parenting and family issues, and spirituality.
Megan’s prior experience includes years working with children and families as an elementary school teacher, and over a decade of experience living in an ashram as a certified yoga and meditation instructor. In her free time, she enjoys mountain biking, yoga, sewing, knitting, reading, and spending time with her 8-year-old son.
Mercedes Becker
Mercedes is a registered psychotherapist and a graduate student in the Master of Clinical Mental Health Counseling program at Regis University. She is a warm and creative clinician who draws from evidenced-based practices to provide an individualized counseling experience for each client. She believes the key to therapy is trust and aims to develop an authentic and sincere relationship with each of her clients.
Mercedes is passionate about the mental health field, and prior to becoming a therapist, worked with a diverse population of adult and adolescent clients in mental health crisis in the in-patient setting. She also worked as a researcher and published research on suicide prevention programming. She is gratified to support clients in overcoming suffering and achieving wellness through counseling.
Rhiannon Stone-Miller
Rhiannon helps her clients find their own direction by providing deep insight, warmth and support. She supports the client in identifying the source of their issues, guiding them to find new directions and solutions. The client is also encouraged to listen to what’s right for them in therapy and to practice this in their life. Rhiannon offers various forms of therapy, and as a trained Transpersonal Art Therapist, invites the client to use art as a means of self-discovery.
Rhiannon’s transpersonal orientation includes the use of mindfulness, somatic awareness and art interventions to support the client’s individual healing and growth. Rhiannon’s personal healing within her family system and relationships provides her with insights to quickly identify and work to heal negative emotional and relational patterns. She incorporates a social justice lens, fostering a keen awareness of cultural humility and trauma sensitivity. Through her work with children and adults, she has found that each person holds an innate wisdom and desire to heal when met with presence. In her free time Rhiannon explores nature, creates art and spends time with her loved ones in the sunshine.
