Prajna Healing Arts shares counseling and coaching from an office in Arvada using a holistic client-centered approach. Carol O’Dowd offers a variety of techniques which clients use to tap their inner wisdom to realign with their inner strengths to achieve peace of mind.
Long Business Description
Prajna is a Sanskrit term that is translated as wisdom which includes conceptual and non-conceptual wisdom. Carol shares techniques with clients for tapping into their prajna. She helps clients walk through the walls of anxiety, depression, stress, panic attacks, and trauma to realign with strength and joy. For clients so interested she uses nature in the healing process. She has walking trails and some sessions are conducted under the trees for those who prefer.
Non religious, Non judgemental, Spiritual; Radix Institute 1996-98: focus: Trauma in the Body ; Created Equine Somatic Psychotherapy: 2000.
Long Business Description
Non judgement and unconditional acceptance are the cornerstones of my practice. My strength is looking at each client's issues as opportunities for learning. Body centered education, teaching how emotional feelings become feelings in the body, is emphasized. Learning from my client's current awareness is the goal in any session. My work is non-religious but spiritual. My intention is to have each client lose the need for ongoing therapy. I have been successful in helping hundreds of individuals. I see adults, teens, couples and groups. I have offered Equine assisted therapy as an adjunct to my practice since 1999.
Life Coaching/Counseling related to internal v.s. external issues
Long Business Description
I use a metaphysical approach to depression and self-hatred – helping to create the conditions in which change occurs rather than perusing the change itself. I also support the client in embracing the feelings they have been trying to resolve with logic and achievement and allow these feelings to lead them back to early trauma and self-defeating beliefs. This is a non-directive approach that allows the client to discover who they uniquely are as opposed to what they think they would like to become. Change is lasting and often dramatic - occurring within moments, weeks, and months as opposed to years.
Christian Counseling Ministry; to assists in healing the brokenhearted, help those who are oppressed, and assist in the restoration of relationships and marriages.
Hypnotherapy, Couples/Relationships Therapy, Death and Dying, Grief Counseling, Stress Management, Anxiety Disorders, Chronic Pain Control, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Degree(s)
BA English Literature; Colorado School of Counseling and Hypnotherapy
Licensure(s)
Colorado Registered Psychotherapist
Certifications
International Association of Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy; International Association of counselors and Therapists; American Council of Hypnotist Examiners; Colorado School of Counseling Hypnotherapy
Additional Training
International Association of Counselors and Therapists, National Center for Nonprofit Boards
Provide hypnotherapy services to help clients empower themselves to change behaviors and states of being.
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Working with Adults, Adolescents, and Children in a multi-state practice, including CO, NM, MI, Washington States. Specializing in immediate care hypnotherapy; anxiety, stress, fear, phobia relief; health and wellness; realizing goals;
Boutique therapy practice helping successful women in Denver for over a decade - specializing in career pressures, life transitions, and personal growth.
Individual counseling online throughout Colorado and Missouri.
Long Business Description
Your experiences are unique and there is no one-size-fits-all to therapy. At your first appointment we will discuss your concerns and learn more about how those concerns are impacting the things in life that you care about. Then we will develop a plan. We believe that therapy should be productive, so we will work from the beginning to make sure we are moving in the direction you want to go. Similar to a doctor or dentist, our vision is that we can build a relationship that is lasting. We may meet more regularly while you are going through difficult times. Once you are feeling better maybe we meet for a yearly “check-in” or you come back if life gets hard again. There is no right or wrong way. We want you to have access to support when you need it.
Trauma, anxiety, family-of-origin wounds, identity exploration, gender-affirming care, low self-worth, people-pleasing, chronic stress, relational trauma, neurodivergent-affirming support
Degree(s)
Masters in Contemplative Psychology Buddhist Psychotherapy Naropa University; Bachelors in Psychology w/ Minor in Art Therapy Minnesota State University Moorhead
Licensure(s)
LPCC, Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate, Colorado
Certifications
Training in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (psilocybin-focused graduate coursework),
Additional Training
Parts Work/IFS-informed interventions, mindfulness-based techniques, and expressive arts therapy approaches
Issues
Family trauma, childhood emotional neglect, people-pleasing, boundary-setting, identity development, gender dysphoria, chronic anxiety, burnout, self-doubt, overthinking, perfectionism, life transitions, spiritual or existential confusion, spirituality, work life balance
Types of Therapy
Client-centered, trauma-informed, parts work (IFS-informed), mindfulness-based, transpersonal, somatic-aware, art therapy-informed, emotion-focused
Therapeutic Situation
Individual
Age
Preteens / Tweens (11 to 13), Adolescents (14 to 19), Adults, Elders (65+)
I help adults untangle the impact of family trauma, chronic anxiety, and identity-related stress through a grounded, collaborative, trauma-informed approach. My work blends parts work, transpersonal psychology, and practical skills for stabilization and clarity. I offer virtual therapy throughout Colorado for clients ready to understand their patterns and build a life that feels more regulated, connected, and sustainable. I provide trauma-informed, anxiety-focused, and gender-affirming virtual therapy for adults across Colorado. My style is steady, non-judgmental, and centered around helping clients understand how early family systems shaped their current patterns.
Long Business Description
Many of the people I work with grew up in environments where they had to stay small, stay silent, or manage other people’s emotions long before they were ready. You may notice lingering patterns such as anxiety, people-pleasing, emotional shutdown, perfectionism, difficulty trusting yourself, which makes sense in the context of your experiences but no longer feel like these ways are helping you move forward. In our work together, we slow down the noise, explore the parts of you that had to respond to early family dynamics, and learn how those strategies shaped your present-day identity, relationships, and nervous system.
My approach blends trauma-informed care, parts work, and the depth and compassion of Transpersonal psychotherapy. I identify as nonbinary (they/she), and I hold a deeply affirming stance around gender, identity exploration, and the experience of living between categories. I also draw from my Minor in art therapy background which I obtained in my undergrad; another important training integration that informs my practice includes psychedelic-informed training (psilocybin-focused) to support clients who think and feel in complex, nonlinear ways without pushing any particular modality or philosophy. The space we build is collaborative, grounded, and centered on helping you return to a sense of internal steadiness.
Therapy with me is not meant to last forever. I aim to help you stabilize, understand your patterns with clarity and compassion, and develop tools that feel realistic in your actual life. You set the pace, and we adjust together. I offer virtual therapy across Colorado and typically work weekly or biweekly, with flexibility for short-term increased support when needed. (I’m unable to work with clients who are currently actively suicidal or engaging in active self-harm due to the limitations of virtual outpatient care.)
