Adventure Therapy in Colorado
WILDERNESS RETREATS | NATURE-BASED INTENSIVES | THERAPEUTIC ROCK CLIMBING
If you love the outdoors, and have done talk therapy and/or psychedelic therapy, but sense that you are now ready to take your healing a step further, you are in the right place.
Adventure therapy helps you take all that insight and translate it into embodied change.
There will come a point when you will make the transition from talking about healing and actually give yourself the environment and support to experience yourself healing.
Adventure therapy is all about leaning into the present moment and giving yourself 1st hand experiences to encounter yourself and nature in ways that inspire and facilitate the change you are so desperate to see.
Through adventure therapy, you get to experience yourself release old patterns, practice responding to yourself, and develop a new normal all in real time with compassionate, anchoring support.
I truly believe that healing must be embodied. It can’t stay in our headspace.
If we want to heal, we must learn to respond to ourselves, feel with ourselves, and risk trying a new pattern that has been unfamiliar until now. We can study ourselves all we want, but at some point, we have to put insight into action.
That is where adventure therapy comes in.
How does Adventure Therapy work?
#1 Building a Foundation of Safety
We begin by first establishing a sense of safety– safety and trust within our relationship as well as your own sense of safety and trust within yourself. Healing can’t happen without this foundation. We begin by meeting on a local trail, online, or in my office. Together we explore your story, build skills, and offer supports to your mind and body. By the end of this phase, you are equipped with the tools you need to go deeper and have a real encounter with yourself.
#2 Crafting Our Adventure
Together, we craft an adventure experience unique to you– your story, your joys, your therapeutic goals, and all that is unfolding within you. The adventure can be anything from a half-day rock climbing outing to a multi-day backpacking trip. The sky’s the limit!
#3 The Adventure
Through the use of wild spaces and our hand-crafted adventure, we explore your goals by leaning into them in an embodied way. For example, you may explore your own fears, your perfectionism, the way you self-abandon, your relationship with joy, your sense of trust…You may explore new ways to lean into trust and respond to yourself.
Every adventure experience is different because it is tailored to you.
Adventure Offerings:
Backpacking & Climbing Retreats: Join or create a retreat that aligns with the ways you want to grow and heal. These can be 1-5 day trips that are fully customizable and can include meditation, yoga, ceremony, adventure, processing, workshops, and solo wilderness experiences ($1050+)
Adventure Therapy Intensives: These intensives are similar to the classic therapy intensives, with the difference being that we take the healing work outside doing an adventure tailored to your therapeutic goals. ($3310+)
Therapeutic Adventure Session: This is tailored to your healing goals and can include hiking, snowshoeing, trail running, rock climbing, nordic skiing, etc. ($180+)
Expedition Level Therapy: Have an outdoor objective that carries a lot of meaning to you? Let’s take it deeper and allow it to change your life. Wanting to run a trail ultra? Hike a specific route or mountain? The Expedition Level Therapy route is one that we would slowly work toward together. We may incorporate training for this objective into our sessions leading up to the main objective. ($TBD)
*Expedition level objective is dependent on the objective and our skill level to accomplish this objective safely.
Let’s give your nervous system the chance to experience yourself healing in a setting that gives you joy.
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