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Who I Am
Emilie Ryan, LPC, NCC, RYT
Sense of Self Counseling and Mindfulness is the private, licensed therapy practice of Emilie Ryan, LPC, NCC, RYT (she, her, hers). Emilie's education and experience enables her to offer effective and individualized outpatient mental health care. She treats a number of mental health concerns, and provides a safe environment for individual and group therapy. Emilie accepts most insurance; please call or email to check whether your insurance is included. Self-pay clients are billed on a sliding scale.
Emilie holds a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado (2014) and is a Registered Yoga Teacher through Neo Yoga in Goa, India (2010). She comes to being a therapist from a 12-year career in business. She specializes in treating individuals experiencing complex trauma and PTSD, anxiety and stress, panic attacks, dissociation, attachment, self-esteem, and identity development. Emilie works with individuals from a wide range of backgrounds, identities, and economic classes with training, sensitivity, and respect.
In addition to conventional therapeutic methods, Emilie is trained in research-supported somatic therapies including Somatic Experiencing, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, and using breathing, yoga, and meditation in session if clients are interested. She is passionate about studying the role of the nervous system as it relates to mental health and helping clients make sense of their experiences from an integrated and holistic perspective. Emilie is an experienced practitioner of mindfulness and somatic techniques in and outside of the counseling room.
My Treatment Focus
I specialize in Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Attachment Theory, and Neurobiological Approaches - all from a strengths-based focus. I regularly engage in anti-oppression and identity-based continuing education and conversations.
My Patient Promise
My goal is to help you understand yourself. Through understanding, you can make more intentional choices about how you handle challenges, feel emotion without overwhelm, be present and move forward to where you want to be in your life.
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Somatic Therapy
I have pursued a specialization in Somatic Experiencing: "A naturalistic, and neurobiological, body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress-related disorders; restoring the authentic self with self-regulation, relaxation, wholeness, and aliveness." In session, we can use SE to renegotiate habitual patterns, build capacity, and facilitate healing.
Trauma & PTSD
Many individuals can experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic circumstances. Anxiety, fear, and hopelessness are a few emotions that can linger after traumatic events. I can help you overcome these symptoms and guide you through the process of grief and healing with group and /or individual therapy. Trauma therapy is more than just re-telling your story.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment. In counseling, Mindfulness is used as a type of Cognitive and Somatic Therapy and is supported by a large and growing body of research. It has been found to be effective in alleviating a wide variety of symptoms. Mindfulness can be used in talk therapy as a way to understand our experience as well as a set of coping and capacity-building skills including meditation, breathing-exercises, and visualizations.
Site Content
Select Resources Supporting Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Treating Trauma, Podcast with Bessel van der Kolk, PhD, Author of The Body Keeps Score
Introduction to Interoception: 'We've Lost Touch With Our Bodies'
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/weve-lost-touch-with-our-bodies/
Scholarly Article on Interoception, Frontiers in Psychology Journal 2018
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5985305/
Establishing Safety in Trauma Recovery
https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/phases-of-trauma-healing-part-i-establishing-safety/
Mindfulness for Trauma Recovery:
http://trauma-recovery.ca/recovery/mindfulness/
Veteran's Administration: Mindfulness for PTSD Research
https://www.research.va.gov/currents/1218-Mindfulness-and-PTSD.cfm
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Group Therapy Opportunities
Trauma Healing Group: Education and Mindfulness Skills A closed, 10-week group offered periodically throughout the year. Learn about how experiences of trauma are stored in the brain and autonomic nervous system, research-supported trauma recovery using the body, and specific mindfulness skills to practice interoception and improve distress tolerance safely.
Post-Traumatic Growth Group A closed weekly group where members can share challenges, receive support, and discuss progress in their trauma-healing journey from others who have completed the Education and Skills group or have equivalent experience. Group often touches on relationships, family, work, a felt sense of activation, the nervous system and Fight/Flight/Freeze/Fawn states.