Boulder Therapy
With Joy Lanzano LPC, LAC, ACS
Providing psychotherapy in Boulder, Colorado, for individuals and couples.
Attunement
Experience being seen and heard, with acceptance
Empathy
The capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference
Acceptance
Intentional, non-judgmental awareness of the present moment. All parts of you are welcome
“This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one’s potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.”
~Carl Rogers 1961
Meet your therapists
Joy Lanzano
Joy’s approach to psychotherapy is eclectic. She enjoys getting to know each client so that they may discover how they may best work together towards wholeness and healing. She focuses on meeting them wherever they are in the moment as the work is so dynamic. Her ultimate goal is to help them see and feel difficult emotions and self images and begin to accept, that with self compassion and courage, we all have the ability to manifest our own life potentials. She believes that “we are all on a path of self discovery and the work we do in therapy has an end goal, to have the most beautiful and fulfilling life possible”.
She is a student of the Diamond Approach to Inner Work and finds that this greatly enhances her ability to hold the space for growth and discovery. She works with compassion in the dialectic field of psychotherapy. Joy also incorporates Mindfulness into her work. She believes that incorporating the practice of meditation and mindfulness into everyday life is a great aid to psychotherapeutic growth and encourages these practices with her clients.
She also enjoys working with couples in that she finds successful and meaningful relationships to be the most difficult task we undertake as human beings. She also has a strong stake in helping people improve their relationships for the sake of children and families as “they are our future and one direct way to influence the cycle of family trauma and general unhappiness, I find this work to be rewarding and extremely relevant to my personal charge of contributing to the world in a positive manner.”
“I aim to be culturally sensitive and inclusive regarding the diversity of all people as they walk through their life journeys.”
Meg Kies
My colleague at New Growth Psychotherapy is Meg Kies. She is now taking new clients. She may bill for Cigna, Medicaid and cash pay clients. Meg works virtually
Meg believes everybody already has the tools they need to be their best Self. Her therapeutic approach is about creating a relationship where she can mirror your innate wisdom which stress and trauma has obscured. Fostering lasting change through this empowerment and imparting strength and awareness to deepen personal growth, Meg helps her clients face challenges on the track toward Wholeness.
Joy’s Educational Background
Naropa University
Master of Arts, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology
University of Northern Colorado
Master of Arts, Educational Technology
Western Colorado University (formerly Western State College)
Bachelor of Arts, Biology and Secondary Education
Post-Graduate Trainings
- Applied Existential Psychotherapy
- Group therapy and Trauma Recovery Protocal (TRP) Therapy
- Attachment Theory Mastery
- Diamond Approach
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Seeking Safety
- Strategies for Success and Change (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT)
Licenses and Certifications
- Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado
- Licensed Addictions Counselor
- Certified Naropa University Mindfulness Meditation Instructor
- Certified EMDR psychotherapist
- PACT Level 1 Certification
- Approved Clinical Supervisor
I specialize in the following areas:
- Couples Therapy
- Trauma
- Depression
- Stress Management
- Substance Abuse
- Addictive Behaviors
- Attachement issues
- Clinical Supervision for LPC and LPC candidates
Clinical Approach/Therapeutic Orientation
My foundational approach to psychotherapy is Humanistic and client-centered. I specialize in the areas of trauma, depression, stress management, substance abuse and addictive behaviors. I tailor what treatment best fits my client’s needs. I will work with individuals, families, couples and groups.
Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP) |
AEP is an experiential psychodynamic approach to Boulder therapy, with techniques drawn from Gestalt therapy and other experiential counseling approaches. It is a dynamic here-and-now therapy that also takes into account how the past impacts the present. |
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy |
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is designed to help people who suffer repeated bouts of depression and chronic psychological unhappiness. It combines the ideas of cognitive therapy with meditative practices and attitudes based on the cultivation of mindfulness. |
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) |
designed to help people change patterns of behavior that are not helpful, such as self-harm, suicidal ideation, and substance abuse, by learning about triggers that lead to reactive states. |
…Joy Lanzano practices EMDR Therapy and received her EMDR Training “Certificate of Completion” from the Maiberger Institute, an EMDRIA approved provider of EMDR Trainings…
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.
View a full list of resources
Below you will find some of the Boulder therapy resources that I have used, both as a counselor, but also as someone who still needs reminders and inspiration.
Stan Tatkin — Relationships are hard, but why?
Shawn Achor—The Happy Secret to Better Work
Gabor Mate — what is addiction?
Kelly McGonigal — How to make stress your friend
Brene Brown — The power of vulnerability
Dan Siegel — The power of Mindsight
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