Individual & Couples Therapy for First Responders, Military & Medical in Colorado Springs and across Colorado & California

YOU TRAINED TO STAY IN-CONTROL.
NOT TO STAY CONNECTED.

For people who can handle crisis — but struggle with closeness.

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If You Recognize Yourself Here…

You’re good in a crisis.
You don’t feel normal outside of one.

The job trained you to stay sharp, controlled, and ready.

Over time, that can turn into irritability, shutdown, numbness, or more distance than you used to need.

You stay guarded because you don’t want to be seen differently.

At work, you stay on for a reason.
At home, it doesn’t always know how to turn off.

Your spouse may feel like they live with someone who’s always alert—or not fully reachable.

We look at what the job has trained into your responses and what it’s costing at home, without blaming either person.

Then we change the pattern—so your marriage isn’t the place you go to shut down.

I work in longer, focused sessions to retrain reactions—so patterns don’t override what you actually want.

Restored Ground Works With

  • Active duty military, veterans, and reservists

  • Law enforcement officers, including corrections

  • Firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics and medical staff

  • Aviation and mission-critical personnel

  • People in roles where mistakes carry direct consequences

  • Spouses and relationships

Breakthrough Sessions

Breakthrough Sessions are longer sessions over a shorter stretch of time— a weekend or several day period.

These are often a fit for couples who want to kickstart or accelerate relationship strain without months of weekly sessions.

It is also a fit for individuals who are short on time and highly motivated.

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Why I’m Invested

My work has included supporting service members and high-responsibility roles across multiple branches of the military—including EOD, special operations, aviation, and security forces.

Before that, I worked alongside correctional officers and ER staff, where constant vigilance, authority dynamics, and exposure to threat are part of daily life.

Most people in this work start with a calling to do so: they want to serve and support. But the longer they do it, the more it follows them home. It hits their relationships, their emotions, and their bodies.
I want to help people keep doing what they were made to do, without paying for it everywhere else.

Freqently Asked Questions

For additional questions, see main FAQ page

  • Yes. Therapy is private. I don’t contact your employer, command, or agency, and nothing is shared without your written permission. We’ll review the specific limits of confidentiality in the consult so you know exactly what is and isn’t private before we begin. The legal exceptions are standard: imminent risk of harm, abuse/neglect reporting, or a valid court order.

  • No. I don’t need a full play-by-play.

    If your body still reacts like it’s happening, that’s what we focus on. You can keep parts private and we can still make great progress. Approaches like body retraining or EMDR or Accelerated Resolution Therapy are often used because they don’t require detailed retelling.

    The goal is to help your system respond differently.

  • Yes. Many first responders are high-functioning and still feel distant, numb, irritable, or disconnected at home. You don’t have to be in crisis for this to matter.

  • That’s common. You don’t have to. We track reactions, patterns, and moments where things shift. Understanding grows from there.

  • Yes. If you’re in a committed relationship bring your spouse. I can also meet with them on the consult call.I don’t treat couple patterns as an individual problem. If at all workable, I work with both of you.

Let’s Get Started

Tell me what you’re hoping to work on, and. I’ll share how I can help.

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