Therapy in Boulder
With Joy Lanzano LPC, LAC, ACS
Providing clinical supervision and 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 therapist in Boulder
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 doing couple therapy in Boulder 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.”
Joy’s education background
Master of Arts, Transpersonal Counseling Psychology
Master of Arts, Educational Technology
Bachelor of Arts, Biology and Secondary Education
Post-Graduate Training
Licenses and Certifications
I Specialize in the Following Areas:
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.
Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT)
Level 1 PACT Trained
Training in PACT equips therapists to use neuroscience, attachment theory, and real-time nervous system tracking to help couples build secure, emotionally attuned relationships.
Certified Therapeutic Coach
Therapeutic Coaching
By blending goal-oriented coaching with powerful mind-body techniques, I can support lasting emotional change, build confidence, and guide you toward an empowered, purpose-driven life.
Approved Clinical Supervisor
Clinical Supervision
Providing clinical supervision involves guiding therapists in developing their clinical skills, deepening self-awareness, and ensuring ethical, effective care for their clients.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR Trained
EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences
Internal Family Systems
IFS and Parts Work
IFS (Internal Family Systems) is a therapeutic modality that helps clients access their core Self and heal inner parts by fostering compassion, curiosity, and connection within their internal system.
Certified Meditation Teacher
Mindfulness & Psychotherapy
Meditation becomes less about achieving calm and more about increasing capacity to stay present—with emotion, thought, and relationship—in real time. Within the therapeutic process, it supports insight, grounding, and a deeper connection to one’s own lived experience.