Like lilacs weathering a sudden snowstorm, a crisis can leave your system shocked, exhausted, and stuck in place. This is the liminal space—where the old way of surviving no longer works, but the new path hasn’t appeared yet. My practice is designed to meet you exactly in the freeze, anchor your nervous system, and help you safely reclaim your color.
Shay Driver Counseling
Exhausted from doing all the heavy lifting—in your relationships and your career?
Chronic over-functioning can lead to a ‘freeze state’ from burnout. Welcome to the liminal space; let’s navigate this together!
Waiting for things to change on their own only leads to deeper resentment. Change requires deliberate shift. I specialize in helping individuals break free from codependent loops, navigate the unique chaos of loving someone with an addiction, and recover from severe workplace burnout.
Holistic Psychotherapy and Trauma Recovery in Longmont, Colorado
Let’s get your energy back! Schedule a free 20-minute consultation with me.
"I can handle it."
How many times a day do you tell yourself that?
I chose not to over-edit this because I want to share this message with exactly who needed to hear it—unfiltered and straight to the point.
Fierce independence is a point of pride, but it can also become a lonely cage when you are navigating career burnout or toxic relationship cycles. You don't have to do it all by yourself.
Let me be the person in your corner. Book a consultation below now!
Therapy Shouldn’t require more heavy lifting
When you are already exhausted, the last thing you need is financial ambiguity. To protect your time and energy, I am fully transparent about costs upfront:
I am an out-of-network provider and utilize Thrizer to maximize your insurance reimbursement.
You can check your out-of-pocket costs instantly with the calculator below.
Superbills also readily available.
My Base Rates:
Therapy
Intake session: $190/60 minutes
Session Rate: $175/50 minutes
Non-therapy
Restore and Relax Group: $37. limit 5 people per session
Private Eastern Somatic Movement, Qigong: $75/60 minutes
Please note: The calculator above uses this exact rate to estimate your specific out-of-pocket copay based on your current insurance plan. Make sure to double-check your physical insurance card or log into your portal to verify your out-of-network benefits details.
Financial Hardship: I maintain a limited number of sliding-scale spaces for individuals facing acute financial hardship. Please ask during your free consultation.
MINES & Associates: I am also an approved network provider through MINES & Associates. If your employer provides EAP benefit, your initial sessions may be fully covered at no cost to you. Please mention your MINES authorization when reaching out.
Welcome
Whether you are navigating a toxic relationship loop or hitting a wall of profound professional burnout in your career, I am so glad you are here.
You have sacrificed your personal boundaries, your physical health, and your peace of mind—leaving you with persistent anxiety, chronic stress, and deep physical depletion. You find yourself facing an existential crossroads, wondering: Who am I outside of what I perform, fix, or produce?
You don't have to carry the heavy load anymore.
I am a licensed Holistic Psychotherapist, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), and Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) with a decade of acute psychiatric care and crisis intervention, I offer a grounded, fearless presence for navigating complex trauma and severe burnout.
Graduating from Naropa University’s Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology program allowed me to blend clinical expertise with Eastern mindfulness and somatic practices. Through this framework, we reframe suffering as a transformative threshold rather than something to pathologize.
Eastern Somatic Therapy & Qi Gong Interventions: How We Work Together
In my practice, we won't just analyze your patterns intellectually. We look squarely at the existential truths of your life and use cutting-edge somatic therapy alongside Eastern somatic interventions with Qi Gong to actively:
Rewire your nervous system to gently melt the trapped chronic ‘freeze’ response
Move stagnant, frozen energy to restore vitality.
Integrate healthy boundaries and heal from codependent relationship patterns.
Reclaim your personal autonomy, authentic voice, and emotional freedom.
My approach to holistic counseling directly honest, deeply grounded, and entirely free of clinical platitudes. We look squarely at the existential truths of your life.
As part of our somatic work, I offer Qi Gong—but this is an entirely optional tool. I deeply encourage you to listen to your body and honor your comfort level. You are never obligated to include somatic movement to work with me; your therapy will always adapt to what feels safe and aligned for you.
True healing requires a safe, authentic space. I am fully committed to providing an inclusive environment where all identities are welcome, including LGBTQIA2S+ and neurodivergent communities.
My Therapeutic Approaches
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Psychodynamic
Exploring how unconscious patterns, past experiences, and early relationships shape current behaviors and emotions.
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Existential
A collaborative approach to fundamental human challenges of meaning, freedom, anxiety, and mortality focusing on living in alignment with values and personal meaning.
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Contemplative
Mixing traditions of Eastern and Western psychology approaching suffering with compassion and self-reflection in a non-judgmental space to uncover your innate wisdom.