Facilitating meaning, connection and authenticity
Here are just a few links and resources I recommend for people in my focus areas. This is by far not an exhaustive list and please reach out if you are interested in learning more!
Colorado Crisis Services – coloradocrisisservices.org -phone, text, online chat and in-person crisis services
Trans Lifeline – translifeline.org/hotline -free transgender specific hotline
Suicide Hotline – suicidepreventionlifeline.org – free and confidential support for people in distress or loved ones
National Sexual Assault Hotline – rainn.org – 1-800-656-HOPE
Out Boulder County – outboulder.org -community advocacy, free support groups and LGBTQ+ events in Boulder County
The Center on Colfax – lgbtqcolorado.org -community advoacty, information, free support groups and LGBT events in Denver
One Colorado – one-colorado.org -LGBTQ advocacy organization
Denver Health Transgender Health – https://www.denverhealth.org/services/lgbtq-services/transgender-health
The Wings Foundation –wingsfound.org -An organization based in Denver dedicated to ending the cycle of childhood sexual abuse. They also offer free support groups for survivors, as well as many other resources.
Forge Forward– forge-forward.org/about/ -A national transgender anti-violence organization. Choc full of resources about transgender health, advocacy, trauma healing. They also have an excellent youtube channel.
RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) rainn.org – national anti-sexual violence organization. Provides advocacy, support and education around sexual violence. RAINN also runs the national sexual assault hotline.
Youtube Channel: Therapy in a Nutshell by Emma McAdam LMFT. An excellent channel with many great explanatory and helpful videos about anxiety, trauma and self-regulation. She teaches many techniques of how to calm anxiety, self-help for PTSD, depression and explains many concepts that counselors and therapists use in session. I just love how she makes this free and accessible to so many people.
Book: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk -an introduction to what trauma is, how it impacts people and how to heal it. Bessel van der Kolk is a pioneering researcher on trauma and how it lives in our bodies and nervous system.
Books:
Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller An excellent introduction to learning about your attachment style and dating with attachment in mind
Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships by Stan Tatkin PhD (only available by audiobook) an excellent book on how to understand your own and your partner’s attachment style and includes very helpful tips on how to create a securely functioning relationship regardless of where you
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Non-Monogamy by Jessica Fern -applies attachment to a wider lens of non-monogamous relationships. Also a good read even if you are not in a non-monogamous relationship as the principles are widely applicable across many situations.
Unmasking Autism, Devon Price PhD
Stephanie Boulton, MA LPC
Soulterra Counseling Pllc
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