Ruscha

I am passionate about the kind of work I do. As a therapist I am inspired by clients who are committed to pushing through old patterns, taking risks to know themselves better, and working to move past limitations. We all have challenges- I help my clients see these as opportunities for us to stretch ourselves in new ways and to grow.  In therapy, we are able to hold a different kind of conversation, one which will deepen the meaning of your experiences, allowing you to cultivate a greater sense of balance, fulfillment and resilience. My hope is that our work together will allow you to move past barriers and limitations around being and relating, and become more fully present to your own possibilities. I have extensive experience working on university campuses. I love working with young adults and individuals as they move through defining developmental stages, confronting issues around transition, stress, career, school, and sense of self and relationship with partners, friends and family.
I practice a Humanistic approach to psychotherapy. This theoretical orientation adopts a holistic approach to human existence. The aim is to help the client approach a stronger and more healthy sense of self. I believe that the client is the expert in their own life experiences and that the therapist can provide a safe and supportive container for the client to explore and make meaning of their strengths and challenges, identify patterns and create healthy change. I view relationships with others as the center of therapeutic treatment. I think that through relationships we learn the most about ourselves and believe that the therapeutic relationship is essential to the practice of effective therapy. A key ingredient is the meeting between therapist and client and the possibilities for dialogue. I have used the analogy of a backpack to describe the process/benefits of therapy. We all carry around a “backpack” and as we move through our day, our life, we begin to fill our bag up with different messages and experiences. Some are positive, some might not be. In therapy you have the opportunity and space to open up the backpack and empty everything that is in there. You can lay it all out and look at it objectively, with someone who isn’t going to judge what you take out. Through this process you can work on what you want to put back into your bag, and what you want to leave out. It helps you to have a choice about what you carry with you as you move forward and the support to help you live out those choices.​



Rex

I view my work with individuals as a practice that we explore together.  This is the practice of fully living life. I welcome all individuals in the ever-present dynamic of the only constant in life, that is change.  Together, we explore changes in your life with curiosity, the decerment of a scientist, and from the heart of compassion and empathy.  The Sufi poet, Rumi, referred to this as “ecstatic groundedness,” and in Buddhism this refers to a luminous quality of mind.  I see this as a process and movement towards health.

As a counselor, I view my role as an empathetic and compassionate guide to exploring the mind, body, and soul of each client.  I work with mindfulness and awareness techniques grounded in the breath.  My intention is not to fix anyone or their problems, but to work together with my clients to find new ways to respond to the on-going issues faced in life.  That is to respond from a place of flexibility, of emotion, of self-compassion, of your own basic goodness.  My work is informed by 20 years as an educator, more than 25 years of mindfulness and meditation practice, and in my keen ability to listen actively.  I relate what I do with clients with the wisdom of the human body and mind, and in the exploration of how to sync them together more efficiently.  I also connect my work in my understanding of each individual as a whole person.    So, join me as we venture into the fullness and the richness of what it means to be human. 
My work as a therapist is informed by several theoretical approaches and modalities.  Given my training in the Naropa University Transpersonal Counseling Psychology program, I pull from Gestalt, Humanistic, Existential, Integral, and Transpersonal perspectives.  In addition to these important threads, I utilize my knowledge and practice of mindfulness and awareness techniques.  All of this is grounded in various somatic/body-based modalities and I draw greatly from the growing field of brain neurology.