About

Michelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor in both Colorado and Connecticut. She is passionate towards helping individuals find appropriate healing techniques, unleash their strengths, and discover their inner potential to benefit their lives positively, through emotional, cognitive, and physical growth. She empowers individuals to work from within by focusing on varying approaches that are individualized to their needs.  Michelle practices with a caring, compassionate, respectable, and culturally sensitive approach; while also challenging individuals to reach their greatest potential.

Michelle places emphasis on person-centered therapeutic approaches and believes that no single approach is right for every individual. She has been trained in varying modalities, including trauma informed therapeutic modalities: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting, Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Active Parenting, alternative to family’s cognitive behavioral therapy, strengths-based, body centered therapy, Applied Behavioral Analysis, and therapeutic modalities utilizing art and music.

Michelle has experience working with children, adolescents and adults in community mental health, educational resource centers for veterans & students with disabilities, residential facilities, and private practice. She also has a huge passion for and a wide array of experience working with individuals through animal assisted interventions approaches including dolphins, canines, and horses.

In her free time Michelle enjoys spending time with her family and dogs, photography, exploring nature, reading, meditation, swimming, and crafting projects. She has a passion for the ocean, aquatic life, as well as mountain adventures. Michelle loves traveling and exploring other cultures values, art, and music. Michelle is extremely passionate around creating more consciousness in the mental health field and expanding resources for individuals/communities that are infringed upon and marginalized. 

Michelle also utilizes a therapy dog Rex, to assist with sessions. Rex has received specialized training to become a therapy dog. He is very compassionate, affectionate, and attuned to individuals.