Solution Focused Brief (SFBT) Therapists in Boulder, CO

By recognizing the connection between past experiences and present behaviors, I enable my clients to gain insights into their thought processes and behaviors, which can empower them to make positive changes. Dismantling unhelpful patterns and replacing them with healthier alternatives is a fundamental aspect of fostering emotional well-being and personal transformation.

Drawing from practices in innovation, positive psychology, and behavioral science, I’ve developed simple yet powerful techniques to help people change and grow. I’m the creator of the Stanford University class “Do It Anyway! Creating a life of passionate action” and the author of the book “Fail Fast, Fail Often: how losing can help you win”, an Oprah editor's choice selection. My work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, and The Atlantic. As a therapist, I’m compassionate, warm and practical. I enjoy taking the time to understand and appreciate my clients, while empowering them with modern tools to promote rapid change.

Kelly McGinnis has been supporting adults and adolescents in their growth, healing, and development for over a decade. Kelly integrates proven somatic techniques, such as EMDR, EFT, breathing, and mindfulness, while helping clients take real action in their lives. She takes a holistic, client-centered approach to increase self-confidence, self-compassion, and empowerment.

My practice is focused on helping you in immediate, effective ways to change for the better. My practice is guided by neuroscience and a wide variety of therapeutic approaches oriented toward cognitive clarity, mindfulness, and self-compassion. The key goal from the first is to empower you to achieve affect regulation and to convert challenges to opportunities.

Accepting New Clients. I enjoy helping clients get free from what limits their life and their vitality. Helping you meet your goals is my job. I work collaboratively in an open hearted and clear minded way. I have over 20 years experience. I work with anxiety and depression issues, health issues, loss of meaning issues, and lack of direction, difficult situations, difficult thoughts, difficult emotions as well as positive psychology and wellness. In successful therapy clients can learn to understand their lives better and to overcome patterns which hinder their vitality and aliveness by learning new skills and new insights.

Hello friend, I'm Itai, a Psychology Professor with 20 years of experience working with thousands of therapy clients. I also supervise therapists and train them as part of their university degrees. I offer Single Session Therapy. We are used to the idea that therapy requires years of weekly sessions. But in reality what you need is the right therapist, asking the right questions. When you know its a single session, you approach it differently. There is honesty, passion, and openness that are all part of your motivation to realize, grow, and transform. I will make sure that we turn this one session into a life-changing experience.

My clients are generally students (GED to PhD) who wish to maximize their academic experience so they may boldly go where their heart takes them with confidence and enthusiasm. Students and researchers often struggle with mental health and academic performance in isolation - rarely reaching out for support. I help students identify and work through their challenges, build strategies for success, find their path, and thrive!

I specialize in attachment-based trauma-informed counseling and healing relationship issues. Couples come to me for help with communication, emotional and physical intimacy, conflict resolution, and emotional regulation. Individuals come to me for a deeper understanding of their relationship patterns. I support clients through life transitions: dating, premarital, couples/marriage counseling, family planning, and divorce. Romantic relationships start with yourself. My clients cultivate self-trust, self-love, and self-compassion. Love is everything it's cracked up to be and authentic connection is the most beautiful human experience.

“One of our greatest freedoms is how we react to things.” – Charlie Mackesy. This quote has a personal significance to me because it highlights the human capacity for resilience and the ability to transform difficult experiences into opportunities for personal growth. I'm passionate about assisting individuals who may have difficulty acknowledging their strengths, and empowering them to confront challenges with confidence. In addition to providing support to individuals facing diverse challenges, I take pride in being available as a listening ear to anyone who needs it.

Are you truly living an authentic life? Have you yet to reach your fullest potential and discover all that you are able to be? If you are feeling unfulfilled in your relationships, career or life in general…If you have been struggling with the painful feelings of depression or anxiety…or if you are coping with a major loss or life transition, I am here to listen and support you.

Please note as of June 2024 - I'm accepting new individual clients only and have a waitlist for new couples therapy clients. I support relationships of all sexuality and gender identities with reclaiming their relationship from painful arguments, disempowering assumptions, and disconnection.

What happens when we cannot show the most vulnerable and truthful parts of ourselves? Suffering. Fear. Frustration. Incongruence. Do you need a space where these parts can be held, allowing you to experience more relief in your body? My goal is to guide you in the discovery and celebration of your authentic self. We live in a world where a right way of being is imposed. Often that entails communicating, dressing, and moving in one particular way. In other words, we are asked to act in ways that align the with dominant heterosexual, cis-gender, White, English-speaking culture.

My passion and gift is supporting others in the healing, growth, and awakening process. I create a safe, loving, and nonjudgemental space​ to work together. I offer wholistic psychotherapy, focusing on supporting your body, mind, emotions, and spirit. I work with adults who are interested in healing unresolved emotions or trauma, developing self-awareness and self-compassion, and cultivating a thriving, authentic, and fulfilling life. I facilitate deep inner work in session and offer tools for you to practice in your daily life.

Family problems, religious trauma, relational struggles, and existential questions: I'm here for it all. My ideal client is ready for rapid transformation because they want to dive into the deep end of their personal life and their relationships. My ideal client likes to be challenged, is willing to expand their worldview, and believes that the examined life is worth living!

My life’s calling is to support individuals who are ready to explore their relationship with substances or those navigating the complexities of a high-conflict divorce. If these challenges are hindering your path to becoming the person you aspire to be or achieving the life you desire, I am here to help. Together, we will manage and resolve the isolation, stress, and anxiety that accompany your situation. Having walked this journey myself, I understand the importance of having compassionate support and finding mindful, centered, and strategic solutions.

I enjoy working with motivated clients who are ready to make positive changes and take back ownership of their lives. Throughout my career I have focused on creating strong relationships with my clients that promote safety. Feeling seen, heard, respected and possibly challenged, is my goal for you in our work together.

Now is the time to focus on YOU! I commend you for taking this crucial step to making a change in your life. It is OK to feel what you may be feelings. The ups and the downs. The confusion with life transitions. Perhaps you are an adult or young adult dealing with grief, relationship issues, narcissistic emotional abuse trauma, or disordered eating. Join me in the therapeutic process and make the changes you want in life. Together, we will highlight your strengths and goals, empower you to make healthy choices and find the balance you've been searching for and are ready to have.

I work especially with people who struggle with their intimate and social relationships, who suffer from anxiety, depression, grief and loss, self-harm, insomnia, chronic pain, or chronic illness, or with those who need more support, more positivity, help starting a career, or a better process of coping in their life due to a stressful moment or transition. I see clients of all ages, as well as couples and families.

If you've found your way to my page, you're likely looking for a shift in your life, relief, change, something more. I too have been in that place, not satisfied and pained. These times were the greatest access points I've ever had for a change into something better, beyond what I've known. I've been able to capitalize on these moments with help from others and have benefitted greatly. I want to support you in the same way. I want to partner with you during this tender, potent, and valuable time.