Speaker: Chelsea Bruntmyer MA, LPCC, NCC, Clinician
Chelsea Bruntmyer MA, LPCC, NCC: My ultimate goal is to help you feel more empowered and capable of handling life's challenges. I want to help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and what drives you, what holds you back, and what you truly want in life.
Tell us a little about yourself and your background.
Chelsea Bruntmyer MA, LPCC, NCC: My journey to becoming a therapist started with my own personal journey to mental well-being and wanting to help others also achieve that same goal. I earned my master's degree in clinical mental health counseling from Adams State University, and I'm a licensed professional counselor candidate in the state of Colorado.
What kinds of challenges do you specialize in helping people with?
Chelsea Bruntmyer MA, LPCC, NCC: My work primarily focuses on eating disorders, anxiety, depression, stress, and life transitions. This often includes helping clients manage their feelings of being overwhelmed, navigate big changes like relationships, school, or just finding a sense of balance, or as we continue to transition into different phases of life, as we continue to grow. Also I have a lot of experience in crisis work. This means that I'm able to sit down and develop a safety plan with you and find ways to cope in order to get you to a sense of safety.
How would you describe your style or approach to therapy?
Chelsea Bruntmyer MA, LPCC, NCC: I like to use a mix of practical evidence-based techniques, things like cognitive behavioral therapy to help you manage your thoughts, uh, dialectical behavioral therapy, which focuses a lot on mindfulness and staying in the moment, solution-focused brief therapy, which helps you identify some of the things that you're needing in the here and now in order to meet your, um, your goals and, uh, help you with your emotions. Um, I understand that things are not a one size fit all approach for every client, which is why I really like to focus on understanding everybody's unique experience and tailor our work to fit what you need. I'm also a very person centered therapist, meaning I kind of think that you know exactly what it is that you're needing. You know yourself best. I tend to sit more as a partner and guide myself along with you, uh, in order to help you reach that goal, rather than being an expert and tell you exactly what you're needing.
What do you hope to achieve with your clients in therapy?
Chelsea Bruntmyer MA, LPCC, NCC: My ultimate goal is to help you feel more empowered and capable of handling life's challenges. I want to help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself and what drives you, what holds you back, and what you truly want in life. I want to help you identify your goals, and hopefully, collaboratively, we can come together and achieve those goals together. By exploring some of these different things, we can identify some of the work that you need, maybe some of the patterns that aren't serving you anymore. My hope is that you reach those goals, and together you are able to overcome anything that you're standing in your way.
