Holistic Depression & Anxiety Therapy
in Denver
An integration of psychotherapy with body-based energy work, IFS-informed
parts work and spiritual insight to help calm your nervous system,
work through your anxiety patterns and feel more present
In Person & Remote
1633 Fillmore st #102, Denver CO
Holistic Psychotherapy
Mind, Body, Emotion and Spirit
Body-Based Anxiety Support
For people who want more
You Experience Anxiety & Depression...
And you are tired of living in the cycle.
The heaviness.
The emotional ups and downs.
The shutdown.
The feeling of being stuck.
You may be tired of trying to manage it.
Tired of trying to push through and still not feeling different.
This work is for people who experience anxiety and depression that want therapy that reaches deeper than insight alone. Because you cannot always think your way out of anxiety. And you cannot always push your way out of depression.
Sometimes healing needs to include the mind, body, nervous system, inner parts and spirit.
You May Be Here Because…
- You feel anxious and depressed
- You feel heavy, numb or unmotivated.
- You feel anxiety in your shoulders, stomach, or breathing.
- You feel depression as fatigue, emptiness & shutdown.
- You feel want to feel your purpose again.
- You have tried therapy and want something deeper.
- You do not want medication to be your only path forward.
- You want spirituality to be part of your growth (not religion)
Only Talking About the Issue
May Not Be Enough
Talk therapy can help you understand your experience.
But if anxiety & depression are also held in your body, nervous system, in protectives part of you, and in your trauma responses, then insight alone may not reach the whole pattern.
You can explain your experience, but you still feel it.
But it feels like you don’t know what to do next.
We work with anxiety & depression through the deeper systems so that therapy is not only about understanding the problem, but beginning to shift how the problem lives inside of you and works within you.
Depression & Anxiety Often Live in the Body
Anxiety can feel like your system is preparing for danger.
You may feel restless, overwhelmed, irritable, or unable to settle.
Depression can feel like your system has gone into collapse.
You may feel unmotivated numb, heavy, or unable to access purpose, or direction.
Sometimes anxiety and depression move in a cycle.
We don’t treat anxiety and depression as isolated symptoms. They are approached as patterns involving the mind, body, nervous system, inner parts, relationships, trauma history, and spiritual life.
Exploring Anxiety & Depression
Anxiety and depression are often signals that something deeper in your system is asking for attention.
Anxiety may be trying to protect you from something that feels unsafe, uncertain, or overwhelming.
Depression may be trying to numb pain, or protect you from feeling something that has become too much to carry.
Instead of treating them as problems to fight or manage, we begin by asking what they are pointing toward:
- What is your anxiety trying to protect you from?
- What is your depression trying to numb or hold back?
- What unresolved emotional trauma may still be active?
- What part of you needs to be heard?
- Where have you lost connection with your deeper self?
The goal is not just to reduce symptoms. The goal is to understand what these experiences are trying to show you.
Testimonials
“Nick has been an absolutely wonderful therapist and safe space for me on my healing journey.” -Ben
“Nick is an awesome therapist. He’s a fantastic listener and is always full of wisdom.” -Gio
“I personally enjoy that he speaks about challenging topics with ‘light’ energy.” -Solomon
“Nick was the best therapist I have ever been to.” – Sarah
“Nick is the best of the best!” -Ellen
Tai Yi Treatments
For Anxiety & Depression
Life Energy Flow Tai Yi a body based energetic modality that works with the deeper levels of your system to assist with issues.
Click on a Treatment Title to learn about what it does.
May Relate To:
- Having depression without knowing why
- Feeling blocked from understanding yourself
- Difficulty bonding
- Mistaking the surface issue for the real cause
People may say:
- “I keep thinking I know what caused this, but something still doesn’t feel complete.”
- “I want to understand what this depression is actually connected to.”
- “I have difficulty bonding and I don’t know why.”
How it works with depression:
This treatment assists with understanding why.
That is the key element of the treatment. It does not necessarily change the desire, the feeling, or the words someone has already spoken about their depression. Instead, it helps bring clarity to what the depression or difficulty bonding may actually be connected to which allows you to focus on healing that core cause.
May Relate To:
- Brain Injuries (TBI’s)
- Concussions
- Strokes
- Heavy Drug Use
- Chronic Stress to the Point of Affecting the Brain
- Being Ungrounded
People may say:
- “I started to feel different after the head injury/sports injury/accident”
- “I know I can do this but I get frustrated, like my brain just isn’t doing what I want it to”
- “I wish my brain didn’t get so upregulated”
How it works with anxiety and depression:
Fire of the Brain is a very beneficial for frustration, depression and anxiety related to the brain feeling like it is not functioning properly creating an internal friction. This is potentially very beneficial for supporting fluid communication in the brain by creating clear channels.
May Relate To:
- Rapid fight-or-flight activation
- Chronic stress
- Cortisol and adrenaline patterns
- Feeling unable to come down after stress
People may say:
- “My stress response feels stuck.”
- “My breathing feels tight.”
- “I feel paralyzed by overwhelming stress and anxiety.”
How it works with anxiety:
Brain Stress may support your body’s stress response through shifting breathing patterns, cortisol activity in the brain, and the adrenal response connected to the body’s stress system.
May Relate To:
- Feeling Stuck
- Depressed and Anxious
- Strokes
- Energetic Influence
People may say:
- “I feel stuck and I don’t know why”
- “I feel energetically drained”
- “I just can’t shake these negative feelings.”
- “I can’t get my energy back after this relationship.”
How it may fit anxiety work:
Cord Removals may support depression and anxiety connected to relational or energetic entanglement with other people, while psychotherapy explores the pattern of attachment or boundary issues.
May relate to:
- Attempting to be like others (and not yourself)
- Losing your own identity by wanting to be like someone else (Whether you are consciously aware of it or not)
- Unhealthy attention seeking
- People-pleasing
People may say:
- “I’m depressed and anxious and I don’t know why.”
- “If I’m being honest I do want their approval.” (Parents, friends, society, etc)
- “I don’t know what I feel until I know what they feel.”
How it may fit anxiety & depression work:
This supports you to become your own person and release the internal need to be like someone else or to be approved of by others.
You can only experience happiness as “your” self. Attempting to do through others only creates depression and anxiety. Being more deeply who you are can assist in releasing.
May relate to:
- Trauma-related stress patterns
- Feeling emotionally or physically stuck after a traumatic experience
- Hypervigilance or feeling on alert; Emotional overwhelm connected to trauma
- Difficulty connecting thoughts, emotions, and body responses after trauma
- Avoidance or emotional numbing
People May Say:
- “I know the event is over, but my body still reacts.”
- “I feel like part of me is still stuck in what happened.”
- “I avoid thinking about it, but it still affects me.”
- “I feel disconnected, numb, or far away from myself.”
- “I want to feel safer in myself again.”
Stress of Death assists when a person is working with trauma-related stress, shock, fear, hypervigilance, emotional numbing, or body-based activation after a frightening or overwhelming experience.
This treatment works in two parts.
- The first part supports the reestablishment of “pictures” in the brain which are the inner images through which the brain, mind, and emotional body communicate.
- The second part helps clear stagnation from meridians within the brain, supporting clearer communication with the higher mind, and creating more clarity, understanding, and focus.
The treatment may be relevant when someone feels that a traumatic or overwhelming experience has disrupted the way their body, emotions, and mind communicate.
It may support beginning to reconnect with inner clarity, body awareness, emotional processing, and a greater sense of internal communication.
This treatment pairs especially well with psychotherapy, parts work and dietary shifts to assist the gut which assists the brains trauma response.
Anxiety Tools
You Can use right now
The 5-4-3-2-1 Tool
Description
If you are feeling anxiety getting more present and in your body can assist in alleviating the intensity.
This technique is often used to assist individuals on the verge of panic attacks to help them pull back from their overwhelming feelings.
It is help you shift focus from your internal feelings to your external experience, pulling you away from intense feelings.
Tool
Take a deep breath and begin to become more aware of your surroundings.
Focus on your surroundings.
Identify:
- 5 things you can See
- 4 Things you can Feel
- 3 Things you can Hear
- 2 Things you can Smell
- 1 Thing you can Taste
Do this until you feel more present and aware of your surroundings.
Focusing on your environment as much as you can.
How This Helps
It brings you back from being in your head and more in your body.
You Can Change What You Truly Own
Description
This Tool is not for the faint of heart.
If you are experiencing anxiety, or any emotions, the more you can come to a deep internal ownership of those emotions, the more you have the ability to be in charge of it and not have it in charge of you.
This tool does require setting aside the ego and taking deep responsibility without using blame, shame or self criticism.
Tool
State to Yourself
“I am responsible for these feelings, I own them, they are mine”
Feel and focus on owning the feelings.
If you come to a place where you feel you are owning the emotions, ask your self what do I need to do next? How can I work with these feelings that I own?
How This Helps
This does not necessarily stop the feelings but shifts how you interact them. Giving you power in own them and working with them.
This may not work for everyone, and that is ok.
If you are in a deep state of ownership it allows you to shift the intensity and experience of your emotions more easily.
Your emotions can own you or you can own your emotions.
You Don’t Have Anxiety,
A Part of You Has Anxiety
Description:
This is an Internal Family Systems (also known as IFS or sometimes Parts)
This helps to shift the focus from ‘I am anxious’ to ‘A part of me is anxious, how can I help that part’.
Here is a way to work with anxiety right now.
#1: Identify
#2: Communicate
#3: Support