Christina Osborne,LPC

I am Christina Osborne, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado. I support women in healing from chronic and complex trauma and overwhelming experiences, using a blend of body-based, mind-based, and heart-based techniques, designed to help you come back to you. I help women to shed the dark clouds of the past that looms over them. I will teach you to listen to the language of your body and to trust that she knows how to heal you. I’ll give you tools and techniques to tame your mind, so it doesn’t sabotage your healing process. Then, if you’re still game, I’ll support you in releasing your traumatized identity and replacing it with an identity of health, well-being, and vast, endless potential.

Trauma can show up in countless ways. I have helped women 16-86 with mood disorders, body image problems, eating disorders, depression, stress, PTSD, and mild cases of some of the more extreme states of mind we can find ourselves in, like sometimes seeing and hearing things that others can’t, feeling like you’re not real or like reality isn’t real. What my clients have in common is that they are sick and tired of being sick and tired, and they believe, against all odds, that things can be different. I communicate like a chameleon. I will pick up on your language patterns and adopt them. In me, you will see yourself. I call it as I see it, with humility, curiosity, compassion, and kindness. I balance the need to speak with the need for silence.

Therapists let me down when I needed them the most. Through a hyperfocus on diagnosis, treatment protocols, cognition, and an insistence that every client fit their limited focus, I spent years in therapy feeling unseen, unheard, and unmet, which mirrored a pattern of my childhood wounds. You see, I was born blind in one eye to parents who saw me as either helpless or a superhero – but never as just me. My life had been chronically riddled with big and little traumas, and a slew of mental health symptoms. I carved my own path to deep, abiding healing through mental health, alternative medicine, and a variety of spiritual practices. I became a therapist because I want to help people who haven’t been well-served by the mental health establishment. I want to help the oddballs, misfits, and eccentrics find some peace – you know, people like me. I want to teach you that healing is a natural process. My job as a therapist is to see you accurately and be a crystal clear mirror for you, so you can heal exactly what needs to be healed and in the exact ways it needs. Our job together is to give you the skills, tools, and strategies that keep you from sabotaging your own healing.

I approach goal setting with as much seriousness as it warrants. Your inner wisdom will create the transformation you need. Goals are what we give the mind to play with so it doesn’t get in the way. The first session is pretty structured. I’m going to ask you a bunch of questions about your life, which will give me insight into how you understand your own challenges. We’ll craft some initial goals and I’ll explain more about the foundations of the way I work. Clients report walking away from the first session with the hope that things can change in a way they haven’t had before.