Arielle Schwartz, PhD, LPC (clinical psych, MA Somatic body-centered psychology). Certified EMDR/EMDRIA (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Arielle provides specialized treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and facilitation/consultation for trainees in EMDR. She offers a client centered approach for adults and children. Specializations include: play therapy, collaborative care for chronic illness/chronic pain, women’s health during pregnancy, and postpartum.  Arielle (as a certified yoga instructor) has taught for: Naropa University , University of Colorado, and the City of Boulder. She integrates mindfulness meditation and yoga into therapy.  

Psychotherapy: Arrielle combines the intuitive art of therapy with the knowledge of effective techniques and interventions. Her 14 years of experience includes helping people cope effectively with grief, depression, anxiety, panic, post-traumatic stress, and bipolar mood disorders. She specializes in working with pregnant/postpartum women experiencing adjustment difficulties or postpartum depression. Child and teen work helps improve self-esteem and social skills, develop coping tools for difficult life experience, and find healthy ways to express feelings. Arielle provides nondirective play therapy to assist young children to express themselves, access inner resiliency, and resolve trauma. She supports parents whose children express anxiety, challenging behaviors, and emotional problems.

 
Psychological Testing: Comprehensive testing assesses cognitive/personality functioning, academic achievement, learning disabilities, diagnostic clarification, and includes treatment recommendations. Play-based assessment for preschool age children is available as part of a Trans-Disciplinary Team with other services providers at the Colorado Therapies and Aquatic Center.
 
Contact: For more information or to schedule an appointment please call: 303-819-0623 or email her at arielle-schwartz@comcast.net

Kenneth Suslak, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist with forty years of experience working with children, families, couples, and adults. He has directed mental health clinics, served private practice clients, and taught doctoral level students. He is a core professor at the Union Institute and University, a distance learning graduate program for midlife adults. He serves as an international consultant in countries where children have been impacted by war, political violence and social unrest helping to set up programs to meet the many needs of these traumatized children and their families. He loves supervising other therapists and imparting his knowledge, experience, and compassion to others.

Ken has extensive training and experience in “traditional” and “non-traditional” approaches and has been the co-director of the training program at the Gestalt Institute of Denver and the Rockies. He utilizes non-verbal expressive play therapy as well as family systems approaches to working with children. He specializes in the impact of separation, loss, abuse and other trauma on children and adults. He believes that we all have an innate capacity to grow and develop, that trauma and other life experiences interfere with that natural process, and views clients as being stuck rather than as sick. He lives in the foothills of Boulder with his wife and occasionally his grandson. Ken is available for therapy, assessment, and supervision appointments at: 303-817-9963. email: suslak@comcast.net

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