My Specialties & Services

If you are experiencing anxiety, you’re not alone. Recent data reflects that anxiety affects around 40 million adults in the United States alone! Symptoms of anxiety includes nervousness, insomnia, inability to focus, constant worry, fear or dread, racing thoughts, digestive issues, headaches, and fatigue. Fortunately, our therapists are well-trained in treating anxiety through developing awareness of triggers, utilizing coping strategies, and practicing mindfulness exercises. 

At Mind Balance Counseling Center, we endeavor to provide creative, personalized interventions that are tailored to your particular needs and have found Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to be one of the most successful treatment models for rapid relief. We help you discover how to feel better while providing you with a safe space for you to begin your healing process. 

Anxiety is a common emotion everyone experiences.  This feeling can arise when making important decisions or when our lives are overwhelmed with work, family, friends, or finances.  However, many people may not recognize their anxiety but are preoccupied with its physical symptoms such as headaches, muscle tension or sleep disturbances.  The first step to overcoming your anxiety is to learn how to understand and manage it successfully. Together, we will explore the origin of your anxiety and develop effective coping skills for you to live the life you enjoy.

Going through a separation or divorce is a painful and challenging experience for everyone involved. It impacts your life on many levels and brings with it a flood of emotions, such as anger, fear , guilt, panic, and sadness. When you think about it, the pain of separating or divorce is mourning the loss of someone you loved deeply, as well as letting go of the dreams and plans you had for your future together. Having the right support is important you make your way through this difficult journey. Having family, friends, support groups and a good therapist can help make you stronger as you begin to grieve and rebuild your life.

What a therapist can help with? The first months are the hardest months. You may be feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, scared, sad, angry and anxious. The everyday things you use to do, may now seem impossible to accomplish. That is where a therapist can help be there, to be your emotional support system. We give you the tools to feel confident and start your healing process. Together we will address the challenges you are facing, the painful feeling your are feeling, and the pain you are experiencing and build a strong YOU! Together we will begin to rebuild your life, your relationships and your vision for your future.

I hear people say, that it is hard for them to see the light at the beginning, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel! It just takes one day at a time.

Do you ever feel reserved and underachieving in the things that you do? Your self-esteem is linked to how you feel about yourself and how you talk to yourself inside your head. Having a low self-esteem can transform the way that we see our potential. Although we may have a lot of great qualities, many of us tend to look at our faults and build negative assumptions off them. Both a low and high self-esteem can be changed into a healthy perception after we learn how to control our thoughts and responses. Low self-esteem creates insecurities and self-doubt. Often it can lead to worsening problems such as depression and anxiety. It can limit you to joining in actives you love and creates guilt and self-hate.

Therapy helps by getting rid of the negative thoughts, and give you tools to gain your confidence. Negative thoughts can also be a product of an unhealthy environment. If there are people around, you who are non-appreciative and are not grateful for what you contribute it can ruin your sense of self-worth. You can learn how to alter the way that you think.

Signs and Symptoms of Low Self Esteem

• You mood may be quite low
• You may feel tired
• Changes in your appetite
• Problems sleeping
• You might not find things as enjoyable as you did before
• You might withdraw from activities that you do not really have to do
• Not feeling social
• You could well feel guilty or worthless
• Having thoughts of self-hate

Whether you call it confidence, self-image or self-esteem, you are talking about how you view yourself. I will show you how to work with your thoughts and teach you the skill of “self-talk” to ensure that your thoughts are helpful (as opposed to hurtful) to you.

You will discover new helpful beliefs about yourself. Our goal is to improve your confidence levels and turn your thoughts of how you feel about yourself into a positive image. You will have my  support and compassion to help be the best version of yourself!

Depression can often leave you feeling sad, hopeless, tired and weak. It can put a negative spin on everything going in life, twisting what you believe about yourself and your life, creating self doubt and doubting others. Depression can interrupt your ability to feel connected to others and competent in your life.
In depression counseling we will find an understanding of what you are feeling at this moment, and begin to develop doable steps and strategies to help you get relief and begin to feel more alive and confident in your life. Depression is treatable, you can feel better. My style is compassionate and interactive.
Let’s find your path to feeling better together.

Symptoms of depression include:
-Sadness, anxiety or feeling numb
-Physical symptoms of headaches or body aches
-Fatigue, difficulty concentrating, difficulty remembering or making decisions.
-Change in appetite
-Hopelesnes , guilt
-Worthlessness, helplessness
-Loss of interests or pleasure in hobbies and activities you once love to do
-Loss of sleep, or difficulty waking up in the mornings, or oversleeping
-Thoughts of suicide or death

Depression counseling benefits:
-Identify what is important and essential to you and your life
-Relief from sadness and negative thinking
-Improve sleep, confidence and enjoyment in your life
-Regaining healthier relationships
-Feeling more calm and relaxed

If you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment you can contact me at info@mbcdenver.com or by phone at 720-621-7908.

Both stress and anxiety are normal components of our everyday lives. Stress is the end of product of frustration, anger and anxiousness over a particular situation. Typically, stress is created by something we feel we do not have control over. Anxiety is characterized by fear or nervousness, and in many cases the cause of anxiety may be unknown. Both stress and anxiety are very personal experiences. What is stressful for one person may not be for another.
Stress and anxiety do not only effect adults, but teenagers and adolescents as well. In our world today we are under constant pressure and expectations to succeed. Therapy can help you regain your perspective and learn stress and anxiety management techniques.

Some common topics in stress management are:

• Coping with divorce, break-ups, or relationship issues
• Transitions in life: Starting new school, transition from middle school to high school, starting college new relationships, new jobs.
• Getting Married
• Adventuring into parenthood
• Dealing with a health problem
• Losing a loved one
• Working on self-improvement and self- growth
• Setting goals and intentions for the next phase of your life.

Having the support of a therapist to guide you can help navigate the complex feeling that can come up during these times of change. Do not let stress take over your life. Get the tools to help manage your stress, and help you accomplish your goals!

Diaper pins and bottles, these are the things that your new baby brings. Tiny yawns and sleep sighs, nursery rhymes and lullabies. Everyone said it would be like sugar and spice, and everything nice…… but then reality kicked in.  As a new parent you are experiencing sleepless nights, roller-coaster of emotions, raging hormones, anxiety and of course stress.

We offer a chance for new parents to and work out some of the common stresses they are experiencing.  We help to learn new techniques, get different perspective and help make a difference in the way you handle your new bundle of stress.

We also work to help give guidance for parents facing challenges with their kids. Working on behavior issues, listening skills, bed time routines, time management skills, and much more. We are there to give your family the support they need, so you can build a strong and loving family.

We also work with Denver’s best Night Nanny company…. Maternal Instincts. They provide services everything newborn/baby related.