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I established my business in October of 2012. I am a Private Clinician and a Unlicensed Psychotherapist with the State of Colorado. I maintain a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Organizational Management with Leadership.
Relationship Therapy is my expertise. I find it rewarding to work with clients that are motivated in seeking help to understand themselves and their relationships, while mindfully exploring value-driven goals. I believe in recognizing multiple paths of potential interventions such as, respecting each family member's orientation, affect, role and interactional patterns.
My approach is respectful, collaborative, and client-centered. Since I specialize in Family's & Couples therapy, I work with individuals by understanding how a person relates to others in the family system based on patterns in generational relationships, IE. (family or origin). Family history taking is key. I will create a safe environment where you can heal emotional wounds and experience harmony. I am very passionate about what I do as a Marriage and Family Therapist. I believe we all play an important part in the world we live in.

Marcie Telander, MA, President of East River Counseling, Inc. has been in private practice for 40 years and is the longest-practicing therapist in the inter-mountain communities of Gunnison, Hinsdale Counties. Marcie offers a wide range of modalities including compassion-centered, positive psychology, depth psychology, Expressive Arts Therapy, Earth-honoring spiritual/pastoral guidance and inter-denominational, ecumenical spiritual counseling, mindfulness, poly-vagal nervous system and somatic therapies, teletherapies, women's groups, men's programs, adolescent rites-of-passage, family therapies, and many more healing therapeutic forms.

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.

In this approach to therapy, dreams, illness, depression, restlessness, and much more can lead to a deeper exploration of the experience and meaning of life. C.G. Jung stated "Our hearts glow, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being." Come and explore.

Emphasize with clients the relationship with self as primary healing mechanism in all other relationships and aspects of life.