Rachel Bernard is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapist, and Clinical Supervisor. She received her Bachelors in Psychology and Masters in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas and Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Regis University along with her Child and Adolescent Counselor Certification. She brings over twenty years’ experience to the counseling relationship, and specializes in treating school-aged children and teens, providing play and expressive arts therapy, and treating adults who have experienced trauma.

Her areas of expertise with children include mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, and trauma; neurodevelopmental issues such as ADHD; and adjustment issues such as grief and loss, divorce, and family blending. She is a Level 2 provider of Theraplay and also works with attachment issues including adoption, foster care, and attachment disruptions. She is a Level 1 provider of EMDR – Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a modality used to help individuals reprocess traumatic events and foster a more regulated nervous system.

Since 2001 she has worked with diverse children and families across residential, educational, community mental health, and private practice settings and has spent the majority of her career providing bilingual services. Rachel uses a prescriptive, integrative approach with clients, tailoring her specific interventions and modalities to best meet the needs of each individual’s presenting concerns and goals. She is firmly rooted in both Humanistic/Existential and Feminist Theories and provides a Polyvagal Theory informed approach to therapy. She weaves in Attachment-Focused, Cognitive Behavioral, Internal Family Systems, Solutions Focused, Assertiveness Training, Therapeutic Drumming, and Mindfulness practices depending on the unique needs of her clients. Her goal is for clients to feel safe, seen, heard, held, deeply understood, radically accepted, and empowered by the therapeutic relationship. She aims for all clients to develop a deeper sense of self-awareness, insight, self-compassion, and to tend and befriend their nervous systems.

In her free time she enjoys spending time hiking, skiing, and visiting hot springs in the Colorado mountains. She is a devoted yoga and Pilates practitioner, avid drummer, and voracious reader.

I am a master’s-level graduate intern at Regis University studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Denver, and have experience supporting families to young children as a nanny and supporting survivors of sexual violence.

As a counselor, I’m honored to build relationships in which I walk alongside individuals through some of life’s darkest moments. I value authenticity, openness, and connection, and see the therapeutic space as an opportunity to build deeply healing relationships. My approach to counseling is rooted in Person-Centered Therapy, while bringing in tools from various therapeutic approaches to best serve the needs of each individual. My goal is to help individuals come to greater levels of self-awareness and to empower them to live more authentically in alignment with their true selves, creating meaningful lives.

I am committed to creating a safe space for folks of all backgrounds which affirm their many intersecting identities, and am especially passionate about working with members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Alona is a master ’s-level graduate student studying Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Regis University and a Gottman Level 1 practitioner. As a therapist, Alona operates from a person-centered perspective, honoring and making space for each person’s unique backgrounds and experiences. Her work is also informed by narrative, creative, strengths-based, mindfulness, and depth psychotherapeutic approaches.

Alona strongly believes that each person has a story to tell. While individuals all have unique ways of flourishing, life has many ways of disconnecting people from their inherent wisdom. Alona strives to walk beside clients, helping them connect with their inner voices and uncover their authentic truths while accepting the fluctuations and evolutions of life. Within therapy sessions, Alona welcomes clients to peel back layers and explore multiple aspects of themselves, including their histories, values, and dreams. She makes space for many approaches, including nature-based, somatic, creative arts activities, as well as traditional talk therapy, and is committed to working with clients to discover which therapeutic approaches most resonate with them.

Alona is passionate about working with young adults, individuals facing major life transitions, grief or bereavement, LGBTQ+ individuals of all ages, and relationships of all kinds. She welcomes clients of all faiths, ethnicities, relationship structures, genders, and sexualities.

Outside of the therapeutic space, Alona enjoys reading, writing, spending time in nature, playing music, trying out new recipes, and sharing meals with loved ones.