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How It Works
Align Again Sessions uses a 4-step psychological mapping system. As we create your map, you’ll begin to understand not only what you think and feel, but how your nervous system responds and stores patterns over time. Once we understand your unique brain and body configuration, you’ll be introduced to evidence-based practices that help rebalance your brain and soften your body’s fight-or-flight response. In time, these practices take root, change becomes more accessible, and cycles like anxiety, depression, and overwhelm dissappear. Here’s what the 4 phases look like:
Phase 1 – Orientation
We'll start your psychological map by exploring your goals, challenges, past history, and current ecosystems. You'll begin developing a nervous system regulation practice built for your specific time, energy, and resources.
Phase 2 – Psychology
We deepen the psychological map with cognitive mapping, exploring how you think, feel, and behave. This includes identifying anxiety, trauma, depression, and maladaptive cycles. We'll hone in on where your mind feels stuck and unresolved.
Phase 3 - Somatic Mapping
We create your unique somatic map by identifying how your nervous system has learned to function over time. We track how emotions, stress, and triggers show up in your body, and how the system shifts into survival patterns.
"This is the best therapy I've found in Colorado. For years, I was trapped in a cycle of making changes that lasted a few weeks, only to fall back into old patterns. I felt ashamed, alone, and incapable. When I started at Align Again Sessions, I found out that my nervous system had been locked in fear for so many years, I couldn't even feel it anymore. When I learned to release it, the effects on my life were real. My anxiety and depression stopped, my burnout cycle evaporated, the tightness in my jaw finally released, and my headaches disappeared. This is the solution you've been looking for, and the sooner you do it, the sooner you'll feel it."
-Hannah B., SEO/AI Manager
Nervous System Restoration Explained
The body's nervous system, also called fight-or-flight, is designed to protect us from physical threats to our survival. It's meant to fire episodically, instinctively choosing the response that will save us– to fight back, run away, hide, and others. Once the threat is over, the system is supposed to relax back to feeling safe.
In modern life, threats manifest in more complex ways: Do they like me? Will I have enough money? Did I forget something? Am I going to get in trouble? While our brains learn to think through these threats, our bodies still react to them using the same old nervous system. Our fight-or-flight activates. The problem? The threat of these more complex things never goes away.
Our fight-or-flight stays on. We learn to ignore it, even to be comfortable with it, as it slowly becomes the quiet background noise in our daily lives. The chemicals that are meant to be in our body for short periods stick around.
We're affected. Mental and physical symptoms begin like anxiety, pain, depression, burnout, digestion issues, hormonal imbalances, sleep issues, and chronic fatigue. Rest feels unproductive, pushing feels automatic, and being present feels out of reach. Our personalities adapt with traits like perfectionism, people-pleasing, Type A drive, and “never enough” thinking. These aren’t quirks; they are adaptations to feeling unsafe, unseen, or unsupported, especially early in life, when the brain and body are still developing.
We'll try things to feel better. We'll buy a new journal, try a new meditation or sign up for a marathon, Often we'll try to deep think our way to happiness, believing if we can just think right, life will be complete. These are helpful, but not long term solutions.
So, what works?
Alignment.
When your system starts receiving consistent mental and physical cues of safety, its protective patterns finally soften. Anxiety, depression, and burnout disappear as tension quiets. Energy returns, because the body no longer believes it needs to brace, guard, or conserve.
Align Again Sessions use evidence proven techniques that:
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tell the brain that the threat has passed
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regulate the body’s “something’s wrong” feeling
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restore internal safety
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teach the system to trust change and maintain new patterns
As your system releases fear, it thinks as feels differently. New people and things feel less threatening. Large projects stop becoming barriers and turn into valuable experiences. Forward momentum feels like something you can actually sustain. And over time, your life will begin to feel lighter, steadier, and more fun. This is what Align Again Sessions are truly about; reteaching your system to once again enjoy living.
So, what works?
Alignment.
Think back. Once, before everything got hard, you felt different. You could breathe deeper. Playing and achieving felt equally fun. You enjoyed the moment in front of you, not only the satisfaction of getting something done. Because at your core, you felt safe. This is alignment; when your system starts receives consistent mental and physical cues of safety, its protective patterns finally soften. Anxiety, depression, and burnout disappear as tension quiets. Energy returns, because the body no longer believes it needs to brace, guard, or conserve.
Align Again Sessions use evidence proven techniques that:
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tell the brain that the threat has passed
-
regulate the body’s “something’s wrong” feeling
-
restore internal safety
-
teach the system to trust change and maintain new patterns
This is the work. Not forcing change, but creating the conditions where change can finally last. It's designed to help you shift past the place your usual attempts at change break down.
Together, we'll reframe progress so you'll move forward in ways your system can actually sustain. And over time, your life will begin to feel lighter, steadier, and more fun This is what alignment is truly about; reteaching your system to once again enjoy living.
A Different Kind of Therapy
At some point in life, things got hard. It might have been in kindergarten, when an angry teacher yelled. It could have been in 8th grade, when your crush didn’t like you back. It could have been a difficult relationship, a lost job, a mistake, etc. Maybe there was a single impactful event, or perhaps a series of small painful moments. But at some point, life hurt and your mind and body reacted.
If you’re lucky, when the hard was over, things felt normal again. But for most of us, on the other side of impactful times, we don’t remember what normal feels like. All we know is that a hard thing hurt us, and we'll do anything to avoid feeling that pain again. Whether we realize it or not, our fight-or-flight stays on.
It's not supposed to. Fight-or-flight should spring to life in moments of danger, fire short term chemicals that help us react, then dissipate. When we never experience an end to the threat, these chemicals stick around and become quiet background noise in our daily lives.
We're effected. Mental and physical symptoms begin like anxiety, pain, depression, burnout, digestion issues, hormonal imbalances, sleep issues, and chronic fatigue. Rest feels unproductive, pushing feels automatic, and being present feels out of reach. Our personalities adapt with traits like perfectionism, people-pleasing, Type A drive, and “never enough” thinking. These aren’t quirks; they are adaptations to feeling unsafe, unseen, or unsupported, especially early in life, when the brain and body are still developing.
We'll try things to feel better. We'll buy a new journal, try a new meditation or sign up for a marathon, Often we'll try to deep think our way to happiness, believing if we can just think right, life will be complete. These are helpful, but not long term solutions.
"I hate reviews, let start with that. But this changed my life, which I didn't think was possible. I was miserable. I know it sounds cheesy, but your brain and body have to get back in sync again. These sessions changed everything. My whole life feels different. If you're on the fence, let this tip you over: it's real and it works."
– M. Tanner, CEO of Star Harbor Space Ventures
About The Therapist
For most of my adult life, I've been trying to understand what makes us feel better.
I’d love to say this came from curiosity, but it came from pain. My early 20's were spent desperately trying to navigate myself and the world while feeling lost, incapable, afraid... Simply put, I felt bad. So I looked for things to help.
The search took me on some fascinating adventures: professional music school, bartending at a nightclub, and even training overseas as a yogic monk, to name a few. Some experiences were radiant successes, others painful failures (I'm a bad monk), but along the way two things happened. First, I became reluctantly skilled at being disappointed. (A lot of things promise they work, but don’t.) Second, over time, I slowly built an encyclopedia of techniques that do work.
What I offer through Align Again Sessions comes directly from that long, messy process– not from perfection, but from lived experience. My approach blends traditional psychotherapy, EMDR, DBT, and IFS work with body-based practices like Polyvagal therapy, functional movement, nervous system regulation, and acupressure. These are the tools that have consistently helped both me and the people I work with return to steadiness and enjoy our lives again.
Along with private practice, I lead workshops in a variety of settings and teach for the Colorado Community College System. My goal is always to present psychology in a way that translates to real life.
My approach is light and humorous, rooted in science, and centered on genuine human connection. Clients tend to stay not because sessions are easy, but because our time feels impactful, authentic, and surprisingly enjoyable.
Whenever you’re ready, I’d love to welcome you into this work with me.
Credentials & Specialties
License: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
License State: Colorado
Years in Practice: 10
Specialized Training: DBT, CBT, Trauma, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Clinical Supervision: Supervisor for LPCC, LPC, and LCSW clinicians
Specialties: Anxiety, ADHD, depression, burnout, overwhelm, trauma, stress and nervous system regulation
About The Therapist
For most of my adult life, I’ve been trying to understand what helps us feel better.
I’d love to say this came from curiosity, but it came from pain. My early 20's were spent desperately trying to navigate the world while feeling lost, incapable, afraid... Simply put, I felt bad. So I looked for things to help.
The search took me on some fascinating adventures: professional music school, bartending at a nightclub, and even training overseas as a yogic monk, to name a few. Some experiences were radiant successes, others painful failures (I'm a bad monk), but along the way two things happened. First, I became reluctantly skilled at being disappointed. (A lot of things promise they work, but don’t.) Second, over time, I slowly built an encyclopedia of techniques that do work.
What I offer through Align Again Sessions comes directly from that long, messy process– not from perfection, but from lived experience. My approach blends traditional psychotherapy, EMDR, DBT, and IFS work with body-based practices like Polyvagal therapy, functional movement, nervous system regulation, and acupressure. These are the tools that have consistently helped both me and the people I work with return to steadiness and enjoy our lives again.
Along with private practice, I lead workshops in a variety of settings and teach for the Colorado Community College System. My goal is always to present psychology in a way that translates to real life.
My approach is light and humorous, rooted in science, and centered on genuine human connection. Clients tend to stay not because sessions are easy, but because our time feels impactful, authentic, and surprisingly enjoyable.
Whenever you’re ready, I’d love to welcome you into this work with me.
About The Therapist
For most of my adult life, I’ve been trying to understand what helps us feel better.
I’d love to say this came from curiosity, but it came from pain. My early 20's were spent desperately trying to navigate the world while feeling lost, incapable, afraid... Simply put, I felt bad. So I looked for things to help.
The search took me on some fascinating adventures: professional music school, bartending at a nightclub, and even training overseas as a yogic monk, to name a few. Some experiences were radiant successes, others painful failures (I'm a bad monk), but along the way two things happened. First, I became reluctantly skilled at being disappointed. (A lot of things promise they work, but don’t.) Second, over time, I slowly built an encyclopedia of techniques that do work.
What I offer through Align Again Sessions comes directly from that long, messy process– not from perfection, but from lived experience. My approach blends traditional psychotherapy, EMDR, DBT, and IFS work with body-based practices like Polyvagal therapy, functional movement, nervous system regulation, and acupressure. These are the tools that have consistently helped both me and the people I work with return to steadiness and enjoy our lives again.
Along with private practice, I lead workshops in a variety of settings and teach for the Colorado Community College System. My goal is always to present psychology in a way that translates to real life.
My approach is light and humorous, rooted in science, and centered on genuine human connection. Clients tend to stay not because sessions are easy, but because our time feels impactful, authentic, and surprisingly enjoyable.
Whenever you’re ready, I’d love to welcome you into this work with me.
My comedy piano show about psychology.
