Tom O'Neill LPC

I believe in talk therapy, in how sharing challenging emotions eases their power and allows you to relax into a fuller sense of self. In my practice I tend toward transparency, often sharing what I am seeing and formulating as an invitation for you to have a strong voice in your process. My style is warm, sincere, and often playful. I seek to create a compassionate space in which you can explore, understand, and transform your life.

The heart of my practice is Buddhist Psychology, the understanding that in our natural state of beingness, we are spacious, compassionate, and clear-seeing. As we come into the world and adapt to our environment and its challenges, we form social selves that often work to separate us from our open, natural state. Therefore, understanding and working with those adaptations (parts) not only helps us orient from our natural, unobstructed state but transforms the fear, anger, and sense of woundedness that they carry. In that work, I also draw from the understandings and interventions used in Jungian Psychology, Gestalt Psychology, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), as well as from mindfulness modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.

• Colorado, Licensed Professional Counselor, 701008458