A Whole Person Approach

Holistic and integrative psychotherapy and nutrition counseling in Boulder, Colorado

My general approach to working with clients is a “whole person” approach.  A “whole-person” approach sees the importance of looking at each aspect of a client’s life, the mind and thinking patterns, the body and where emotions and thinking are felt and sometimes stuck, relationships, career, nutritional health, and physical health.  Just as eating heavily processed foods, refined sugars and flours is unhealthy for our body’s immune system, negativity, compulsive thinking, limiting beliefs, as well as other toxic thought patterns and behaviors are unhealthy for our emotional well being or the “emotional immune system".  When our mind activity is toxic, this impacts our emotional immune system.  And what we choose to think about, and focus on and put into our minds and our beings, is similar to what we choose to eat and drink, and put into our bodies.  It is all connected to our relationship with ourselves.  When we are truly loving and accepting ourselves, we treat ourselves sweetly, with healthy foods, plenty of water, restful sleep, and with kindness and mindfulness in our thinking, acting, interacting, and belief system.  

Clients seek services with me for both emotional and psychological reasons, as well as for support with nutritional imbalances.  At times a client will come in for psychotherapy but then through our work together, realize that working on other areas of their life, such as physical health is important to pay attention to as well, and at that point we might add to our focus, some nutritional counseling, or take a look at their level of physical activity, and physical ailments.  Other times a client is seeking the nutritional counseling specifically and the work might lead to some connections between the original nutritional counseling goals, such as weight management, and thinking and emotional patterns, and the focus might begin to include more of the psychotherapy components.   And other times, people remain very focused on either just the psychotherapy, or just the nutritional counseling.  All of this is based on the needs of the client, and we work together to determine what is needed for the client throughout the course of counseling.