Discover the calm within,
find your solutions
Improve your relationship with yourself
●Awareness-Increase awareness of internal experiences: your thoughts, emotions and behaviors to begin noticing and changing unhelpful patterns.
●Emotion Regulation-There are many emotions and sensations we may try to avoid or suppress. Together, we work to understand what your emotions are trying to tell you and create space for them to flow through.
●Self-compassion-Self-compassion is the practice of offering yourself warmth, support, encouragement and understanding. We are often our harshest critics which actually makes it more difficult to cope and achieve goals.
●Values-based action-Discover your core values: what you want you and your life to be about.
Improve your relationship with others
●Assertiveness--Learn to ask for what you want and say no to what you don’t.
●Attachment style-Typically established in childhood, attachment styles are different ways of behaving and interacting in relationships. There are four patterns of attachment: secure, anxious, avoidant and disorganized.
●Boundaries-An essential part of healthy relationships. Identify your needs, expectations, limits and desires, then learn to communicate and uphold them in order to protect your values and the relationship.
●Validation-Learn how to express how another person’s experience, perspective and emotions make sense (even if you don’t agree!) to build trust and safety.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
ACT is a therapeutic modality with techniques including cognitive defusion, acceptance, mindfulness, values-based decision making and committed action to those values.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
CBT focuses on better understanding our thoughts, feelings and behaviors and how they all interact together to make us feel better or worse. CBT is goal-oriented and proven to be highly effective
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
DBT, while initially created to treat borderline personality disorder, is an effective therapeutic approach that focuses on four modules: Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance and Emotion Regulation.
Anxiety
Anxiety is characterized by excessive worry and difficulties controlling worry. Symptoms you may experience include restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension and disturbed sleep that create an impairment in your life or cause significant distress.
Depression
While often portrayed as a person who can’t get out of bed, depression can take on many forms and is often a silent struggle. Characteristics of depression can include depressed mood or feeling hopeless, loss of interest/pleasure, significant weight loss or weight gain or appetite changes, changes in sleep, psychomotor changes, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness/excessive guilt and difficulties thinking. Thoughts of death or suicidal ideation are also common in those experiencing depression
Perfectionism
While not a clinical diagnosis, people who experience perfectionism have often struggled with it for much of their life. Perfectionism tries to give the promise that if we are perfect in every way and in every area, we can avoid rejection, failure and painful emotions. This can eventually have negative impacts on self-esteem, work, body image, relationships and overall well-being.
Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
—Viktor E. Frankl
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A little about me:
Hi! Thank you for taking the time to visit and read my page. My name is Jenna and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor located in Colorado. I certainly did not get into mental health because mine was “perfect”. I always wondered what made people who they are and my interest in psychology really began when I took Psych 101 in high school. This class just made sense to me and I loved that what I learned could be applied to every day life. Going into college, I was interested in helping people in some way. After consideration of pursuing a nutritionist degree and failing Bio 101 3 times (it’s okay if you laughed at that), I decided to turn my focus to a Psychology and Criminal Justice Degree at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia before eventually getting my Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Adler University in Chicago, Illinois. I believe my own struggles in life and with mental health help me to be a better therapist because, while no person or experience is the same, I hold a high level of compassion and understanding for others, as well as a belief that everyone is doing their best with what they have in the moment.
I have worked in a variety of therapy settings including inpatient, outpatient, intensive outpatient and EAP before pursuing Calm Solutions Therapy, LLC as my private practice. My practice is based on empathy, collaboration and problem-solving. I consider myself down to earth and enjoy using humor in sessions. I hope therapy is a transformative experience for you and one that you’ll look forward to each week.
Outside of the virtual therapy room, I love being in nature; from taking walks in the neighborhood to being in the mountains and snowboarding. I volunteer at a local dog rescue which is incredibly meaningful and connecting to the community. There’s always a book I’m reading and one I’m looking forward to reading-typically a psychological thriller and books for continued learning. I enjoy watching the food network and experimenting with recipes along with getting lost in reality TV (guilt free). And last but certainly not least, I have a fur child named Pippy who I love dearly and who often likes to make an appearance for therapy sessions.
Email: jenna@calmsolutionstherapy.com
Contact me
Call/text: 303-951-3812