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Welcome to Sitting Together Counseling

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A place for you to feel it all.

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Now offering in-person and remote sessions.

Maybe, you’re tired of leaving parts of yourself behind and you’re ready to feel like you have both feet on the ground.

Maybe, you feel like an expert in showing up for everyone but yourself and feeling as if the only way to be okay is to make yourself small. But you know — something’s gotta give.

It’s time for you to feel comfort and have pride in the skin you’re in. Let’s rediscover what brings magic to your life and help you connect to community and relationships that show up for you in the ways you deserve. Facing life's challenges can feel difficult, scary, and at times isolating, but don’t worry!

I'm here to support you on that journey — you’ve got this!

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Therapist & Human

Hey there, I’m Avery

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(they / she)

Queer, non-binary, neurodivergent, avid crafter, Aquarius, left-handed, big on bike riding, and maybe a little obsessed with my dog Lefty… Finding a therapist who *gets it* isn’t always easy. That’s why I specialize in supporting queer and non-monogamous folks in navigating the many chapters of life. I am passionate about showing up for my community in the therapy space and beyond.

I received my masters in Relationship and Family Counseling from The University of Denver and am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy. My training is based in a systemic, social justice, and liberation focused approach. I bring my extensive education, training, as well as my own lived experiences into our work together.

Compassion and curiosity are my greatest tools in creating an affirming, brave space to get the work done. In our sessions my approach is warm, down to earth, and personal. Here you are the expert.

I believe that healing happens in community and one of my greatest privileges in life is walking alongside folks on their journey’s of healing and self discovery. It would be delight and a privilege to walk alongside you on your journey.

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Liberation

My training is rooted in a systemic and social justice approach. That means not only looking at the personal and historical impacts of systems of oppression, but working to disrupt those systems in the therapy space and beyond.

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My Values

Authenticity

We aren’t going to squeeze ourselves into a rigid box and magically get comfy in those confines…we end up breaking the box.

Let’s walk together on your journey of self discovery and celebrate your most expansive and abundant self.

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Creativity

Getting vulnerable with someone who sits there like a brick wall just feels weird. I use a relational approach - it is an honor to laugh, cry, move, draw, breathe, and dream alongside my clients.

Trauma-Informed, Holistic Healing

Therapy is not one size fits all. I utilize a person-centered, emotionally focused, and attachment based approach to create a therapy space that works for you and your goals.

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My Specialties

  • You deserve a counselor who is able to witness you on your journey of becoming and belonging. Someone who is able to organize the familial, cultural, historical, societal threads as you weave the deliciously complex tapestry that is you and your unique, multifaceted stories.

    I see you

    My approach is rooted in queer and feminist theories. As a queer, non-binary therapist I am uniquely prepared to hold the multiplicities of queerness in life and in the therapy room. All the coming outs, what it’s like to be queer in the world right now, sitting in the heaviness of queer suffering and delighting in the sparkle of queer joy… all of it is welcome here.

  • Let’s connect with who you truly are beyond the confines of who you were taught you should be.

    Whoever you are, this is a space where all parts of you are honored. Let’s strengthen your sense of self, find your worth and build confidence in who you are… together.

  • For those pivotal moments in life that seem to uproot everything and stir up so much change… Let’s create the space for you to process those changes and move through it grounded in intention and confidence. Change can feel chaotic. I am here to remind you that chaos is the genesis of all things new.

  • I utilize a strength-based approach that celebrates the unique strengths of neurodiversity. I will not try and change my neuro-diverse clients so they fit better to the expectations of a neuro-typical world. Instead, let’s work together to embrace the ways your brain works, practice self-advocacy, embrace actual support systems, and build the confidence you need to thrive in a world that doesn’t always celebrate the ways you are uniquely you.

  • I have personal experience and extensive education surrounding the deliciously complex world of ethical non-monogamy (ENM). Skip the step of having to explain all of the ins and outs (and why, no, it’s not a bad thing) to your therapist.

    I support clients who embrace a variety of relationship structures through feelings of jealousy and insecurity, infidelity, sexual health, agreements and boundaries, new relationship energy, de-escalation, and the infamous, endless sharing of calendars for time management without all that stigma and misunderstanding that so often is felt in being non-monogamous in a mono-normative culture.

  • Maybe you’re noticing anxiety, hopelessness, distance from the things you care about, or feeling on edge in a way you just can’t shake. I take a trauma informed approach to healing.

    In our work together, you will feel empowered and in charge of your own healing. We will work together in a way and at a pace that works for you. Maybe it feels like your trauma took control of your life and now its getting in the way of everything.

    Through a supportive and trusting therapeutic relationship, paired with practical tools to regulate through when trauma presents itself, you will walk away feeling a sense of agency over your life again.

  • Are you struggling to care about things you once loved? Or motivation feels like a river that has completely run dry. Maybe exhaustion and hopelessness color just about everything these days. Even if you’re good at not showing it on the surface, you just can’t shake this sadness.

    You deserve to feel a little lighter. Let’s work through those feelings, free of judgment together.

  • Are you tired of endlessly overthinking things? Always on edge and struggling to calm your body down?

    Anxiety may be your body’s natural response to unsafety or stressors, but it’s effects don’t need to be all consuming. Together we can learn to better understand your anxiety, cope with it, and cultivate a new sense of calmness in your day to day life.

  • EFT is an evidence-based approach to therapy that draws upon attachment theory to invite a deeper understanding of our emotionally experiences and the underlying attachment needs those emotions are trying to communicate. With EFT, clients explore negative interaction patterns and how to transform those patterns into secure and connective interactions with yourself and others.

  • You may notice that the relationship with someone who is controlling, manipulative, hypercritical and reactive has left your nervous system in a constant state of fight-flight-or-freeze. The relationship has left lasting scars; self-doubt and low-self esteem are feeling like unshakeable constants.

    Maybe it’s a parent, or an ex, perhaps you are still married to them -in or out of the relationship, the harmful cycle of abuse is keeping you stuck on emotional rollercoaster ride and you’re ready to get off. Healing from traumatic and abusive relationships with narcissists does not start or end with cutting that relationship out of your life.

    You deserve to break out of and recover from the cycle of narcissistic abuse. It is time to heal , to know your worth, and start feeling empowered in your life. Reaching out is the first step.