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.
Deb Silver
If you're dealing with relationship struggles, wanting to change old patterns, or working through trauma (personal, physical, emotional, systemic, intergenerational, historical), I am here to support you in accessing your resources and strengths to connect you to your resilience. You hold the wisdom and strength you need to move through life, but sometimes it’s hard to tease apart the metaphorical tangled pile of yarn that internally exists...on your own. I believe in the complexity of the individual as a guiding source of their wholeness, which includes all aspects of identity, culture, and intersectionality.
As a somatic dance/movement therapist, I work intentionally to integrate sensation, feeling, emotion, and movement into the verbal story - an integration of mind and body. I work from an anti-oppression lens in support of understanding one's internal story and the ways it is impacted by relational, cultural, and societal experiences.
As a white, cis-woman of Jewish descent, I work in collaboration with you to support your development and growth in relationship to yourself, others, and your environment by offering culturally relevant, trauma-informed counseling for individuals, relationships, and groups.
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 Phelps
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 with 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 redwood, and her favorite fruit is 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.
Brennalyn Flaherty
Brennalynn is in her final year in the Master of Social Work program at Metropolitan State University of Denver. She has a great passion for providing healing to those living with anxiety, depression, and traumatic experiences. She is creative in nature and has a passion for music, art, and mental health. Her educational background includes a B.S. in Music from the University of Colorado, Denver, where she learned to integrate self-care and passion into singing and analyzing the theory behind music. She inherently believes in the power of healing through authentic self-expression and self-realization. She is also a registered Barre instructor, where she learned to create the mind-body connection.
Brennalynn has been trained in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (Level 1) and understands that we are all diverse and unique when it comes to the care we deserve. Because of this, she dedicates her time and career to frequent training and learning opportunities in the ever-growing field of mental health with the intention to enhance and refine the therapy she provides for her clients. Born and raised in Colorado, Brennalynn enjoys spending her free time outside with her son and spending quality time with her friends and family.
Harley Rodriguez
Harley comes from Tracy, California, and has been living in Colorado for the past six years. She received her BA in sociology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is currently in her final year working towards her master's degree in social work at Metro State University. Harley is a registered psychotherapist and brings with her a passion for social justice, a compassionate understanding of human vulnerability and complexity, and an inherent curiosity for working with a variety of individuals towards self-improvement and self-care. In her role with NCC, Harley brings experience working with vulnerable and disadvantaged adult and older adult populations in-home care settings and in the criminal justice system within the probation and drug court department. Utilizing motivational interviewing, warmth, and an empathetic approach, Harley has an inherent passion for being an ally for others as a trustworthy, approachable, and dependable confidant.
With a background in sociology and social work, Harley’s approach to therapy is rooted in the strengths-based perspective that all individuals have intrinsic strengths to recognize and embrace as they move through their life journey. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, going to concerts, running, and watching movies.
Jenelle Thurston
Jenelle brings warmth, genuine care, and integrity to create a non-judgmental container for clients to explore their challenges, uncertainties, and uplift their strengths. Her approach is collaborative, client-centered, and relational, and she trusts in the here-and-now as being a powerful indicator of what needs our attention and care. As a master's level intern and a Body Psychotherapy student at Naropa University, Jenelle’s intention is to support clients in exploring, accessing, and developing a relationship with their body in which one can trust their innate bodily wisdom as valuable and healing.
She draws from her path in the healing arts as a Breathwork Journey guide, yoga instructor, firewalking facilitator, and retreat leader which informs her truth; that transformation happens on a body level, and psychotherapy supports that integration. Jenelle is committed to social justice by acknowledging differences, considering impact, and advocating for clients’ best interests within a systems perspective. Her therapeutic approach is integrative, including a variety of somatic practices, attachment theory, nervous system regulation, and Level 1 training of Motivational Interviewing. She welcomes working with individuals, couples, and families.
Lizzy Hackney
(She/Her/Hers)
Lizzy is a Registered Psychotherapist and graduate student in Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology program. She has over five years of experience in the field, as a wilderness counselor and child protection social worker. Lizzy is passionate about group dynamics and highly values the relationships that contribute to individual well-being.
Lizzy draws from evidence-based therapies such as DBT and ACT and her style often infuses humor and psychoeducation. Lizzy is passionate about working with clients who are navigating issues of neurodiversity (such as ADHD, Autism, and Learning Disabilities), anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma, behavioral disorders, as well as family & relationship issues. She is a trauma-informed and social justice-oriented counselor. In her free time, Lizzy is an avid adventurer and can be found skiing or hiking in the mountains.
Madeline Davis
Madeline is a Boulder native that grew up on a small flower farm outside of town. She’s passionate about time in nature, movement, and the power of ritual. She considers herself a wounded healer and believes whole-heartedly that provided a safe, non-judgmental space, each person is capable of healing, growth, and a deeper connection to themselves and the world around them.
Madeline is a registered psychotherapist and a graduate student in the Master of Arts in Counseling program at Regis University. She believes in the power of story and the narratives we tell ourselves. Therapy is an opportunity to tell your story and perhaps begin to rewrite it in order to live a more fulfilling and meaningful life. Her creativity and sincerity guide her, utilizing an integrative and holistic approach in order to meet each client’s unique needs. She embraces the impact the seasons of life have on the soul and believes that dark chapters can lead to genuine transformation. She’s ready to sit with her clients through the uncomfortable and messy emotions and act as an empathetic collaborator in order to gain a better understanding of both the internal and external experience of each client.
She is filled with gratitude for the opportunity to work in the healing field and hear your story. She works with both couples and individuals.
Nikita Lenzo
(She/Her/Hers)
Nikita has an emphasis in Art Therapy and is currently finishing her Clinical Mental Health Counseling degree at Naropa University. She nurtures creative expression of all kinds and believes healing happens in compassionate relationships. Nikita follows radical feminist, client-centered approaches, and has experience working with hospice clients, as well as individuals struggling with grief and loss.
Nikita is passionate about populations grappling with identity formation, including issues spanning gender, sexuality, and eating disorders. Nikita strives to welcome whatever arises and empower clients in using art to process, externalize and integrate their experiences. Through contemplation and creativity, clients can both surrender to uncertainty and locate their inherent insight.
Nikita enjoys living slow and walking gently. In her spare time, she likes to go backpacking, cook new recipes, sew and spend time with family.
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.
Téa Speek
(She/Her/Hers)
Téa is astounded at the wild beauty of the world for guiding her in the direction of healing, listening, and bearing witness to the journey of others. She is called to this type of work through her own pilgrimage of self-love, a lineage of ancestral trauma, and the experiences of living each day as a deeply sensitive individual. As a young girl, Téa dreamed of a plant blooming at the base of her neck, and it is with this image of growth and unfurling that she steps into the role of healer.
Téa brings with her the experience of working as a sexual assault hotline & in-hospital advocate for multiple years, as well as an in-patient placement at a detox facility for the first year of her graduate program. With this background, Téa is well versed in crisis response, trauma-informed care, and showing up for people exactly where they’re at. Téa lives each day with her own mental health challenges allowing her to empathize and relate to anxiety, depression, and the shadowed side of the human experience.
Téa brings a grounded presence, an introspective ear, and a desire to sit and walk with someone through their pain. A skipping stone soul, Téa was born and raised in Colorado, earned her bachelor’s in sociology at Fort Lewis College in Durango CO, and is a second-year MSW student at the University of Denver. She finds her deepest sense of self submerged in bodies of water and wishes to be a guide to others in their own soul-search for precious inner peace.
Zoe Schlanger
(She/Her/Hers)
Zoe Schlanger is completing her third year in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Art Therapy at Naropa University. Zoe has 10 years of experience facilitating meaningful creative moments for people in crisis, transition, and people with disabilities. She crafts space for moments of light, humor, and the artistic process in the face of fear, unknown, and trauma.
Zoe enjoys working with teens, adults, families, and couples. She combines her passion for nature, art, and self-exploration while assisting clients to enter gently into transformative dialogues with their inner self. She believes in befriending the body and the environment as allies for healing. To help clients facilitate a deeper awareness of their experiences, Zoe offers an embodied presence, curiosity, and direct style of engagement.
Zoe lives in Nederland, Colorado and can often be found reading, walking, or sculpting.
