Gem City Mental Wellness | Trauma Therapist in Wyoming

Honoring Your Autonomy, Supporting Your Healing, Grounded in Compassion and Care.

Supporting veterans, disabled adults, neurodivergent adults, in rural Wyoming and Colorado communities with trauma‑informed, evidence‑based therapy.

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Welcome— I’m Glad You’re Here

As a trauma therapist in Wyoming, I provide trauma‑informed, evidence‑based support for adults seeking grounding, clarity, and emotional connection. I also offer support for those looking to mitigate symptoms of trauma, disability, neurodivergence, and serve rural mental health communities to decrease feelings of isolation.

How I Can Support You

Below are the core services I offer, that in my experience as a trauma therapist Wyoming, have been the most helpful, as they are grounded in trauma‑informed, evidence-based care and adapted for adults across rural communities.

**Trauma & PTSD Treatment**
Evidence‑based support for trauma recovery at your pace. My main focus for clients who have trauma and attachment symptoms is building trust and confidence in their sense of self.

**Neurodivergent‑Affirming Therapy**
Respectful therapy that avoids masking pressure and supports autonomy and navigate life stages in a more affirming way.

**Support for Disabled Adults**
Care that honors lived experience, mobility, and accessibility needs. Increases sense of self-worth and dignity.

**Spiritual Resilience**
Faith‑integrated support for those who want it. Compassionate exploration of spiritual injury and religious trauma to find spiritual connection and resilience. To reconnect mind, body, and soul.

**Human-Animal-Environmental-Interventions**
Grounding through gentle, supportive animal presence to increase trust, vital for those who have suffered traumatic experience and trust in humans is hard to come by. Sessions are set in the therapeutic environment of rural Albany County, WY.

**Dialectic And Acceptance Based Therapies**
Tools for grounding, distress tolerance, and communication to mitigate and manage difficult emotions and pave the way for deeper work and healing.

In person sessions coming soon!

In‑person sessions in Laramie will be offered on Wednesdays by appointment only in the Worthy Matron room.

Techniques that guide the healing process

Trauma‑informed telehealth with a trauma therapist in Wyoming. In addition, I support trauma, disability, neurodivergence, and rural mental health for adults across WY and CO.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

When I begin working with clients who have experienced trauma, one of the most helpful first step is understanding where you are in your healing and what skills you may already have tried. DBT provides a strong foundation for this work. Its core principles include distress tolerance, mindfulness and “finding the middle path,” interpersonal effectiveness (relationship skills), and radical acceptance. Together, we explore which skills help you feel grounded and mitigate trauma triggers, which ones feel overwhelming, and how to build a toolkit that actually supports your daily life.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Many people tell me, “DBT/CBT skills are great… but what do I actually do with them?” This is where ACT becomes essential. ACT helps bridge the gap between knowing skills and actually feeling, believing, and living them. Using ACT, we work on connecting skills to your values, reducing self‑judgment, and learning how to apply what you’ve learned in a way that feels authentic and sustainable.

Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

For clients navigating chronic emotional distress, complex PTSD, or co‑occurring medical conditions (such as Traumatic Brain Injury, developmental disabilities, chronic substance use, or long‑term disability), healing can be less direct. CPT helps us understand your patterns of thinking, your survival adaptations, and the impact of conditioning and trauma on your worldview.
Using CPT alongside DBT, we work on:

Distinguishing disability from difference
Building compensatory strategies
Understanding how your brain works
Identifying the strengths you’ve developed to navigate a neurotypical world

This approach is especially supportive for neurodivergent adults, disabled adults, and anyone whose trauma responses are intertwined with long‑term adaptations.

Human–Animal–Environment Interventions (HAEI)

You will learn more about this technique further down the page, but here’s how it works in telehealth: I am currently preparing and training my therapy‑adjacent animals in my rural southeast Wyoming home. During virtual sessions, you may have the chance to meet:

Sergio
Baxter
Twinkle Toes
King
Blaze

These interactions can be grounding and can support emotional regulation when traditional psychotherapy has felt ineffective. HAEI integrates natural interactions with animals into therapy. Moreover, this approach supports grounding, reduces isolation, and encourages emotional clarity for rural clients. When you and I reference or engage with the animals organically during our sessions, we discuss the therapeutic meaning as it happens. This process is part of Human‑Animal‑Environment Interventions, and it can be a powerful adjunct to trauma and skills‑based therapy.

Spiritual Resilience

While many challenges can be addressed through emotional, cognitive, and behavioral approaches, I believe spiritual wounds can also impact healing. Here, “spirituality” does not mean religion. Religion is the formal practice of spiritual expression through an organization. For many people, those experiences have been painful — even traumatic. Spirituality, however, is your personal connection with God or a higher purpose, separate from institutions or hierarchy.

When appropriate and only if you choose, we explore:

Your spiritual identity
Your personal relationship with God
The mind–body–spirit connection
The sense of grounding or purpose that may have been disrupted

This work happens without judgment, pressure, or assumptions. For some clients, reconnecting spiritually becomes the missing piece that helps their emotional and physical healing deepen.

Rooted in Wyoming

Serving Rural Communities with Compassion

Finding emotional support in rural environments can feel isolating — long distances, limited providers, and a culture of “handling it yourself” can make it difficult to reach out. My practice is built around the realities of rural life in Wyoming and northern Colorado, offering calm, grounded therapy that respects independence, privacy, and lived experience. I provide care that honors the resilience and challenges of rural clients, including veterans, disabled adults, neurodivergent adults, ranch and agricultural communities, and those living miles from in‑person services. Whether you’re navigating trauma, stress, identity, chronic illness, or simply need someone who understands the quiet of Wyoming life, I’m here to support you.

Supporting Animals in My Practice

Animals have an incredible ability to offer presence, grounding, and emotional clarity. During virtual sessions, you may have the opportunity to meet Sergio, Baxter, or Twinkle Toes as they naturally appear in the environment. These interactions are optional, client‑led, and always guided by your comfort. For many clients — especially those who feel “talk therapy hasn’t worked” — the steady, judgment‑free presence of animals can create a meaningful sense of calm and connection. My approach to Human–Animal–Environment Interventions (HAEI) involves recognizing the therapeutic moment as it arises in real time. When an animal interaction naturally creates a metaphor, emotional opening, or grounding experience, we explore that together gently and intentionally.

Equine Partners: Blaze & King

Blaze and King offer a unique, grounding presence that supports emotional clarity and nervous‑system regulation during virtual sessions. Even though our work together happens online, their natural rhythm and steady awareness can create a sense of connection, comfort, and calm. Horses are deeply responsive to intention, tone, and emotional shifts. Through Human–Animal–Environment Interventions (HAEI), we explore these subtle behavioral cues as they arise — noticing how Blaze or King move, settle, or respond as we talk through emotions, stress, or internal conflict. These moments often become organic metaphors that support insight and healing in ways talk‑only therapy may not.

For my rural clients, I also offer low‑pressure “groom and chat” virtual sessions, with at home visits coming soon! These sessions combine light, grounding barn chores or grooming with gentle conversation. The goal is to reduce social isolation, support connection during everyday activities, and create a therapeutic experience that feels natural, familiar, and part of rural life. Many clients find that being around the horses — brushing, tidying their space, or simply standing with them — helps conversations unfold more comfortably and builds a sense of companionship and shared rhythm.

Your comfort and interest always guide this process. Whether Blaze and King simply drift through the background during telehealth sessions, or we work with them more intentionally during grooming and barn‑based support, their presence brings a sense of spaciousness, reflection, and steadying that is difficult to replicate elsewhere.

Telehealth Services Designed for Rural Wyoming and Colorado

I provide secure, accessible telehealth sessions for adults across Wyoming and Colorado. Telehealth allows you to meet with a trauma therapist in Wyoming no matter where you live, including rural and remote areas. This approach is especially supportive for rural clients, disabled adults, neurodivergent adults, and anyone facing long distances, mobility limits, or weather‑related barriers. Telehealth also allows natural interactions with animals in your environment to unfold during sessions — whether you’re joining from home, the barn, or out on the land. These moments often create meaningful grounding and connection, while still maintaining privacy, safety, and ease. Below, you can schedule a telehealth session at a time that works for you.

Ready to begin your work with a trauma therapist in Wyoming? Whether you’re seeking grounding, emotional clarity, or support navigating complex life experiences, I’m here to help. You can schedule a virtual session at a time that works best for you.