Amanda Loughlin, LPC

Therapy is a collaborative relationship. Amanda (any pronouns) believes clients are the experts of their own experience and her role is helping remove roadblocks to clear seeing, deepening the cultivation of a greater toolbox for life’s challenges, and to be an ally in times good and bad. Her style is warm, direct, at times infused with humor, and compassionately honest. Amanda works from an empowerment based attachment lens and uses a whole person approach, acknowledging all the complex systems and experiences that make us who we are and want to be.

Amanda is a Licensed Professional Counselor who earned a Master’s degree from Naropa University in Transpersonal Wilderness Therapy. She is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) certified and trained in Motivational Interviewing (MI), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Internal Family Systems (IFS). Amanda holds a 45-Hour Evidence Based Modality Endorsement from the Noeticus Training Institute and is currently completing Gottman Method Couples Counseling training. In 2019 she was awarded the Naropa University Priscilla Inkpen Graduate award for social justice and the 2023 Staff Excellence Award for her work as a Licensed Counselor at the University. Amanda has worked in therapeutic contexts including residential treatment, career counseling, trauma, with couples, adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, college counseling, and as a clinical supervisor. She has years of experience supporting LGBTQIA+ identified adults of different social locations navigating identity and sexuality exploration, trauma, relationship challenges, and boundaries.

Amanda believes in creating a new path forward with each client. Depending on what’s leading someone into therapy, EMDR may be used to reprocess trauma, MI to work with ambivalence or change, DBT to expand capacity for emotions, distress, or relationship effectiveness, ACT to uncover values and purpose, or IFS to work with different parts. The Gottman Method can provide a pathway for couples wanting to deepen their bond, communicate more effectively, and rediscover why they fell in love. More often than not, a blend of these different modalities is a part of the work.

Amanda’s journey began in Massachusetts, then Vermont, and finally Colorado. Outside of therapy, she finds excitement and nourishment through her connection with nature. Amanda has worked in the outdoor industry since 2011 on snow, rivers, the desert, mountains, and in the lush forests of Vermont. This relationship with nature was pivotal in her own journey of healing from complex trauma and enabled her to find her voice.

Amanda will be welcoming new clients both in-person & online June 21st! She will be accepting both private pay and medicaid payments.