THERAPY AND COACHING FOR ADULTS IN COLORADO
Time to step into your story.
Non-traditional, compassionate support for stepping back into your life with main character energy after trauma and transitions.
Sara Loca, MA, LPCc
Are you an absent character in your own life?
You learned through trauma it’s safer to be a tertiary or absent character in your own story.
Knowing and expressing who you are feels like a threat to your relationship or environment - chronic people pleasing.
You have been handed a complicated life transition that turned the book upside down and knocked you right out of your own story.
Learn to harness your main character energy.
Lead your own path.
Dwell in your body.
Embrace your awe.
Reclaim meaning.
The ways you stopped being a main character in your own life.
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Chronic People Pleasing
It’s not just people pleasing, codependency, or masking. It’s a learned self-abandonment in response to a relational threat. It’s a chronic fawn response.
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Trauma
Trauma reorganizes you and your view of the world. It’s chronic PTSD, Complex PTSD, emotional abuse and neglect, childhood trauma, abandonment trauma, perinatal period trauma (family planning, pregnancy, and postpartum), and sexual trauma.
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Quarter-life Crisis
A life transition and identity crisis that happens in your 20s. You feel stuck, overwhelmed, and lost. You want to craft your own path, but you aren’t sure how to start. Who am I? What do I want?
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Perinatal Transitions
Family planning, pregnancy, and postpartum can spark a life transition and identity crisis. Finding you in the chaos and isolation is not happening. It’s hard to settle into your way of doing the parenthood.
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Anxiety and Depression
You keep cycling through periods of anxiety and depression. Go beyond the labels and discover the roots of the issue. Find a holistic perspective of what’s perpetuating the cycles and address the various roots.
Self-author your life.
Rebuilding trust through authentic connection.
A core tenant of wellness is connection to self and the world around us. Authentic connection is in and of itself deeply healing. This is a part of what makes psychotherapy so impactful - getting to engage in a nourishing attachment relationship. I truly delight in the uniqueness of each person who comes through my practice, and connect authentically in sessions. We will laugh, cry, and feel together.
Finding you with somatic and experiential therapies.
Knowing yourself isn’t enough. Feeling yourself is where aliveness sits. We play with bodily sensations, movement, and role-playing in sessions to help you understand the interoceptive map that is you, as well as initiate big changes for your body, soul, mind, and life. My approach is rooted in Body-based Gestalt, Somatic EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Dialoging, IFS-informed Parts Work, and Polyvagal theoretical concepts.
Strengthening resiliency with self-compassion and mindfulness practices.
Savoring who you are truly and letting your life build around it brings meaning and fulfillment. But it’s a process that will inevitably face storms of challenges. If change is coming out of anywhere but love, it won’t be strong enough to weather the storms. Learning to let your attention shine all parts of you with care and affection is a deeply courageous act that leads to a well of resilience.
Clarifying your needs with systems lenses.
You are living in a series of systems that significantly impact your wellbeing: intergenerational inheritance, culture, -isms, family of origin dynamics, medical systems, and more. Neuro, LGBTQIA+, spiritual, cultural, racial, disability -affirming lenses clarify your actual needs, as well as bring to light more of your resources. Without looking through this lens, you may be trying to change the thing that could be your pathway to thriving.
All belong here. ♡
Hi, I’m Sara.
Also, “forza tesoro” in Italian. I offer a space built on warmth, curiosity, and nourishment to help you (re)connect to your inner wisdom. I am a curious, engaged, and compassionate guide who will brainstorm with you, and I show up as my whole, authentic self in our sessions. You'll see real facial expressions and we’ll share genuine feelings because I believe this work is both a science and a deeply human and creative art. It's an honor to do this work and witness the brilliance of each client.
Offerings
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Psychotherapy
You are curious about somatic and experiential therapy techniques. You live in Colorado and want to meet in-person or virtually with a counselor who shows up as a fellow human.
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Coaching
You are looking to deepen your self-understanding through coaching. You are interested in virtual meetings from anywhere in the world or in-person in Colorado.
What it looks like to work together:
1 Schedule a free 30 minute consultation. Schedule a free consultation by emailing me or scheduling directly online here.
2 Connect to see if we fit. The consult is where we understand if what you are looking for matches what I offer in my practice. I am also happy to answer any questions about finding a practitioner that feels like a fit.
3 Complete introductory paperwork. Once we decide it’s a good match of goals and offerings, we schedule an appointment and I’ll send paperwork. The paperwork requests information on your goals and life, as well as explains policies.
4 Meet for our first 90-minute appointment. We meet for 90-minutes to discuss paperwork, history, goals, and address anything that’s coming up for you that week.
5 Work together to help you meet your goals. I meet with people weekly or bi-weekly for a 50-minute or 80-minute appointment. We adjust the appointment cadence for your needs as the relationship evolves.