An Integrative Approach to Psychotherapy in Boulder, Colorado

At Starling Psychotherapy, we see therapy as both an art and a practice—one that honors the mind, the body, and the deeper stories that shape our lives. Based in Boulder, Colorado, our psychotherapy private practice offers individual, couples, group, and corporate therapy rooted in a deeply integrative, person-centered approach.

Rather than following a single therapeutic model, Starling Psychotherapy brings together a wide range of Eastern and Western psychological traditions to create therapy that is tailored, responsive, and uniquely yours. Each client arrives with their own history, challenges, strengths, and values—and therapy here is shaped around that individuality.

Where Eastern Wisdom Meets Western Clinical Psychology

Eastern psychological traditions, particularly mindfulness and Buddhist psychology, have long emphasized awareness, compassion, and the ability to meet experience as it is. Influential teachers such as Thich Nhat Hanh and Jack Kornfield helped bring these principles into modern therapeutic contexts, showing how mindful awareness can transform our relationship to stress, anxiety, and emotional pain.

At Starling Psychotherapy, mindfulness is woven into therapy not as a rigid technique, but as a way of cultivating presence, curiosity, and self-understanding. This perspective blends naturally with Western clinical psychology, which offers tools for insight, emotional regulation, and meaningful change.

Integrative Therapy Tailored to the Whole Person

Our work is grounded in person-centered therapy, inspired by Carl Rogers, who believed that healing unfolds within relationships marked by empathy, authenticity, and respect. From this foundation, we integrate a diverse range of therapeutic approaches, including:

• Gestalt therapy, focusing on awareness, embodiment, and present-moment experience

• Existential therapy, exploring meaning, freedom, responsibility, and life transitions

• Narrative therapy, helping clients reshape the stories they tell about themselves

• Cognitive therapy, offering practical tools for working with thoughts, emotions, and behaviors

• Somatic experiencing, addressing how stress and trauma are held in the body

• Transpersonal therapy, honoring spiritual experience and expanded states of consciousness

• Art therapy, supporting creative expression when words alone are not enough

This integrative approach allows therapy to remain flexible and alive. Sessions may include conversation, mindfulness practices, somatic awareness, creative exploration, or cognitive reflection—guided by what is most supportive for you in that moment.

Therapy That Feels Human, Not Clinical

While Starling Psychotherapy is grounded in evidence-based practice and ethical clinical training, our approach is intentionally warm, relational, and collaborative. Influenced by thinkers like Irvin Yalom, we view the therapeutic relationship itself as a powerful source of healing.

Clients seek therapy here for many reasons: anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, burnout, life transitions, identity exploration, or a desire for deeper self-understanding. Rather than pathologizing these experiences, we approach them with curiosity and respect, seeing them as meaningful responses to life rather than problems to be eliminated.

Psychotherapy in Boulder, Colorado

Boulder’s culture of reflection, creativity, and connection to nature aligns naturally with the work we do at Starling Psychotherapy. Our practice supports individuals and organizations in cultivating emotional resilience, self-awareness, and meaningful change, both personally and professionally.

If you are seeking psychotherapy in Boulder, Colorado that integrates mindfulness, somatic awareness, and modern psychological science, while remaining deeply human and individualized, Starling Psychotherapy offers a space to explore, heal, and grow.