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Therapy services in Denver that meet you where you are
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Every path is different.
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Executive Development & Organizational Consulting
Helping leaders evolve—and organizations thrive.
At Iliria Therapy & Consulting, I offer executive development and organizational consulting that goes far beyond surface-level tactics. Rooted in psychology, lived experience, and strategic business insight, my work supports leaders and organizations in cultivating emotionally intelligent, values-driven leadership that is both impactful and sustainable.
As a Harvard-Certified Executive Coach with over a decade of experience across the medical field, commercial aviation, health startups, and private practice ownership, I bring a rare multidimensional perspective to leadership growth. My approach bridges deep psychological insight with real-world execution—because lasting leadership transformation doesn’t start with strategy.
It starts within.
Throughout my career, I’ve collaborated with physicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, and C-suite executives, gaining firsthand understanding of the psychological demands of high-stakes leadership—and the burnout, identity strain, and relational challenges that often accompany it. I help leaders look beyond external performance to uncover the unconscious narratives, inherited roles, and internal conflicts silently shaping how they lead, communicate, and connect.
What Executive Coaching Helps You Develop
- Emotional Intelligence & Self-Mastery
- Resilient, High-Functioning Teams
- Authentic & Strategic Communication
- Values-Driven Leadership Vision
Organizational Consulting for Executive Hiring & Leadership Planning
Beyond individual coaching, I consult with organizations to support executive hiring, leadership transitions, and long-term strategic planning. This includes:
- Vetting, interviewing, and evaluating executive candidates
- Assessing leadership style, emotional intelligence, and alignment with company mission
- Evaluating cultural fit, decision-making patterns, and relational capacity
- Providing insight on leadership development needs and succession planning
Why Organizations Trust My Expertise
I’ve played a strategic role in launching two startups and have supported the growth of three multi-million-dollar companies—offering guidance in:
- Leadership development
- Brand strategy and narrative alignment
- Organizational structure and team dynamics
- Market positioning and business growth
This cross-industry experience allows me to support leaders and organizations with clarity, emotional intelligence, and a deeply strategic lens.
Who This Work Is For
- Founders navigating rapid expansion or identity shifts
- C-suite executives seeking deeper clarity, self-awareness, or communication strength
- Teams or organizations undergoing transition, restructuring, or culture change
- High-achieving leaders seeking sustainable growth without burnout
- Companies building or evaluating executive leadership pipelines
Whether you're a founder, executive, or organization in transition, I offer grounded, human-centered support that brings clarity to complexity and momentum to vision.
Ready to Elevate Your Leadership?
Let’s build the internal foundation that transforms how you lead and how your organization performs.
I work with clients nationwide and internationally through secure virtual sessions. This allows founders, executives, and organizations across the world to access high-level consulting and strategic support—no matter their location or time zone. For organizations, I also offer on-site consulting—including leadership evaluations, strategic planning, and executive team development—so your team can receive hands-on support wherever you’re located.
Sports Performance
High performance is never just physical — it’s psychological, emotional, and deeply personal. As a former varsity athlete, team captain, and competitor in both tennis and basketball, I know firsthand the pressures athletes carry: the drive to excel, the fear of failure, the intensity of competition, and the identity shaped around performance. Athletes push their bodies to the limit, but the true foundation of peak performance lies in the mind. Behind every intense training session, competition, setback, or comeback is an athlete navigating pressure, expectations, identity, and resilience.
At Iliria Therapy & Consulting, I offer an integrative, psychodynamic, and holistic approach to Sports Performance Therapy that supports athletes at every stage — from youth competitors to collegiate and professional athletes, weekend warriors, and high-performing individuals who want to excel without sacrificing their mental and emotional well-being.
My work goes beyond traditional sports psychology. I help athletes strengthen the person behind the performance — the identity, emotional world, mindset, and internal patterns that shape how you train, compete, recover, and grow.
Why Athletes Seek Sports Performance Therapy
Athletes face unique internal and external demands. Even the most talented performers struggle with:
- Performance anxiety or pressure
- Fear of failure and perfectionism
- Loss of confidence
- Over-identification with results
- Burnout or overtraining
- Injuries that disrupt momentum and identity
- Difficulty separating athletic identity from personal identity
- Transitions in sport or career
- Navigating team dynamics or expectations
Sports performance isn’t just about skill — it’s about psychological clarity, emotional regulation, and mental resilience. Therapy offers a space to strengthen those foundations.
Who This Work Is For
Sports Performance Therapy is ideal for:
- Youth athletes
- Collegiate athletes
- Professional athletes
- Recreational competitors
- High achievers seeking peak performance
- Athletes recovering from injury
- Athletes preparing for major competitions or transitions
- Former athletes transitioning into a new career or identity after sport
(including those navigating the emotional, professional, and identity shifts that come with stepping away from competitive athletics)
This work is tailored to your sport, your goals, your history, and the psychological landscape that shapes how you perform, cope, and evolve — both inside and outside your athletic career.
Men’s Concerns
A psychodynamic and holistic space for men navigating masculinity, pressure, and emotional complexity.
Modern life asks a lot of men — to be strong yet sensitive, driven yet grounded, successful yet emotionally available. Many are carrying expectations they were never taught how to hold, and as a result, stress, loneliness, and internal conflict often remain hidden under the surface.
My work with men creates a private, non-judgmental space to explore those pressures and understand the deeper patterns shaping how you think, feel, and relate.
Whether you’re a new dad adjusting to the emotional and practical demands of fatherhood, a high achiever navigating performance pressure, or someone wrestling with societal messages about masculinity, independence, or vulnerability — you don’t have to carry it alone.
Common areas of focus
In therapy, we explore the experiences that impact men most:
- Stress, anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout
- Fatherhood and the identity shift of becoming a parent
- Emotional expression and communication in relationships
- Career pressure, leadership fatigue, and achievement anxiety
- Identity development and confidence
- Anger, irritability, and emotional regulation
- Loneliness, disconnection, and unmet relational needs
- Masculinity, self-worth, and internal expectations
My approach integrates psychodynamic insight, holistic mind–body understanding, and evidence-based strategies, helping men develop emotional clarity, healthier coping, and a grounded sense of self. Together, we identify the narratives and early experiences that shaped you — and build new ways of relating to yourself and others that feel authentic, stable, and aligned.
A Therapeutic Space Designed for Men
Many men enter therapy for the first time with me. Some come because they feel pressure to “hold it all together.” Others come because something in their life — relationships, parenting, career, mood, or internal world — no longer feels manageable.
My work is collaborative, direct, and conversational. I help men:
- Understand the origin of their emotional patterns
- Build healthier relationship skills
- Navigate stress and internal conflict
- Strengthen identity and emotional resilience
- Access deeper self-awareness without stigma or shame
This is a space where men can ask questions, feel supported, and be fully themselves — without needing to perform, mask, or minimize what they’re going through.
If You’re Searching for Support
If you’re looking for therapy for men in Denver, a men’s mental health therapist in Colorado, or a holistic psychodynamic therapist for men, my practice offers a thoughtful, integrative approach to healing, growth, and self-understanding.
I support men across multiple stages of life — new fathers, professionals, athletes, executives, first-time therapy clients, and men navigating life transitions. Whatever you bring into the room, we work with it at your pace, with depth and authenticity.
Ready to Begin?
If this resonates, I welcome you to reach out.
Men deserve spaces where they can be honest, feel supported, and grow without judgment.
Yes. I offer secure, HIPAA-compliant online therapy sessions throughout Colorado.Virtual therapy provides flexibility, privacy, and accessibility—whether you’re in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, or a rural part of the state. You can receive specialized support for men’s mental health from the comfort of your home, office, or wherever you feel most at ease.
Yes. I offer life coaching for men nationwide and internationally. Coaching sessions are available virtually, making it easy for men across the U.S. and around the world to access support in identity development, performance, leadership, emotional resilience, and personal growth.
Coaching is ideal for men seeking clarity, accountability, mindset work, or goal-oriented development beyond the therapy room.
Couples Therapy / Marriage Counseling
Couples Therapy: Navigating the Dating Phase
(For couples in the early stages of their relationship)
Dating is one of the most exciting—and vulnerable—chapters of a relationship. This is the phase where chemistry meets reality, where hopes meet history, and where two people begin to reveal not just who they are, but how they love. Therapy during the dating phase can help you build the strong, conscious foundation your future relationship depends on.
In early relationships, red flags, yellow flags, or subtle differences are often minimized with the hope that they will resolve on their own. But unaddressed concerns have a way of resurfacing later as conflict, resentment, or disconnection. Couples therapy at this stage creates space to explore these dynamics with honesty, curiosity, and compassion—before they become patterns that are harder to untangle.
In our work together, we will:
- Identify early relational patterns that may impact future commitment
- Explore compatibility, including values, communication styles, emotional needs, and long-term goals
- Build healthy boundaries, so neither partner loses their sense of self
- Develop communication skills that support clarity rather than confusion
- Bring your partner into the process, creating shared insight and stronger alignment
- Address emerging conflicts before they grow into larger relational ruptures
Dating-phase therapy is not about pathologizing your relationship—it's about helping two people show up with intention, emotional awareness, and honesty. Whether you are exploring long-term commitment, noticing recurring disagreements, or wanting support in making thoughtful decisions, early couples therapy gives you the tools to build a relationship that is stable, healthy, and fulfilling.
Marriage Counseling: Strengthening Your Commitment
(For couples seeking deeper connection, clarity, and long-term resilience)
Marriage is a living, evolving relationship that requires ongoing care. Whether you’re newly married or navigating years of shared history, marriage counseling provides a grounded space to reconnect, repair, and realign.
At this stage of partnership, couples often face new challenges—family dynamics, career pressures, parenting, shifting needs, communication breakdowns, or the slow accumulation of unresolved wounds. Therapy helps you address these issues with depth, honesty, and skill, allowing your relationship to grow rather than erode under stress.
In marriage counseling, we will focus on:
- Improving communication so each partner feels genuinely heard, understood, and emotionally safe
- Understanding and healing each partner’s attachment style — exploring anxious, avoidant, or disorganized patterns and how they shape your reactions, needs, and connection
- Repairing unresolved conflicts that continue to carry emotional weight, resentment, or misunderstanding
- Deepening emotional intimacy and strengthening the friendship that forms the foundation of a resilient partnership
- Navigating life transitions such as parenting, relocation, career changes, family stressors, or loss with shared clarity and compassion
- Rebuilding trust, safety, and connection after periods of distance, miscommunication, or emotional shutdown
- Exploring each partner’s inner world — including past wounds, triggers, and relational expectations — to create a more attuned, supportive bond
- Aligning on long-term goals and shared vision, including family planning, finances, roles, dreams, and the values that guide your future together
Whether you’re seeking support during a difficult season or simply wanting to invest in your relationship’s growth, marriage counseling offers the tools, insight, and emotional clarity to strengthen your bond. My approach blends psychodynamic depth, attachment-focused insights, and practical communication strategies, helping you create a partnership that feels loving, secure, and resilient.
Don’t wait for patterns to grow into problems that eventually harden into resentment.
Start therapy now to strengthen your relationship while it’s still growing.
→ Schedule Your Couples Therapy Consultation Today
Individual Adult Therapy
A space to understand yourself, heal deeply, and move toward a life that feels aligned.
Individual therapy is a transformative experience—one that invites you to slow down, explore your inner world, and understand the unconscious patterns shaping how you think, feel, and relate. In our work together, you’ll have a safe, compassionate, and confidential space to untangle the complex layers of your emotional life and reconnect with the most authentic parts of yourself.
My approach integrates psychodynamic therapy, holistic mind–body work, and relational insight, allowing you to explore the root causes of your challenges rather than simply treating symptoms. This kind of depth-oriented therapy helps you understand why certain patterns show up, how early experiences affect your present, and what you need in order to grow, heal, and thrive.
Whether you're navigating anxiety, identity questions, relationship challenges, trauma, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, therapy becomes the place where clarity emerges and emotional resilience is built.
How Individual Therapy Helps
Through an empathetic, grounded, and non-judgmental therapeutic relationship, you’ll gain deeper self-awareness, emotional insight, and the skills needed to create meaningful change. Clients often come away with:
- A clearer understanding of emotional triggers and patterns
- Relief from anxiety, depression, and chronic stress
- Greater self-confidence and a stronger sense of identity
- Improved communication and healthier relationships
- An ability to set boundaries without guilt or fear
- A deeper connection to personal values, purpose, and meaning
This work supports both healing and expansion—helping you feel more present, more empowered, and more aligned with the life you want.
Areas of Focus in Individual Therapy
- Anxiety & Stress
- Depression
- Identity & Self-Exploration
- Relationship Issues
- Self-Esteem & Self-Worth
- Trauma & PTSD / C-PTSD
- Work-Related Stress & Burnout
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Acculturative Stress & Multicultural Identity
Personal Growth & Self-Development
Therapy isn’t only for crisis. Many people come to deepen their insight, expand their emotional capacity, and move toward a more fulfilling and intentional life.
⭐ Why Clients Choose My Approach
My approach bridges deep psychological awareness with practical accountability, helping you not only understand your patterns but actively shift them. By combining psychodynamic insight, holistic mind–body integration, and a relational style rooted in honesty and attunement, I support you in making meaningful, sustainable change.
Clients describe our work as grounding, challenging, and emotionally liberating. Together, we explore the story beneath the symptoms—unconscious patterns, internal conflicts, and the emotional history shaping your present—while also building the skills, boundaries, and actions that move your life forward.
This is therapy that helps you see yourself clearly and hold yourself compassionately accountable so healing becomes transformation, not just insight.
Whether you're seeking clarity, growth, or deeper alignment, you don’t have to navigate it alone.
If you’re ready for meaningful change, Iliria Therapy is here to help you begin.
→Book a complimentary consultation to explore whether we’re the right fit.
The deeper themes and emotional experiences I often support clients through.
Multicultural & First-Generation Identity Development
Growing up between cultures often means growing up between identities.
For many first-generation individuals, the journey toward belonging is layered: honoring your family’s sacrifices while navigating expectations, translating cultures, holding grief and pride in the same breath, and becoming the bridge between where you come from and who you’re becoming.
This work is not just about identity—it’s about the emotional, cultural, and intergenerational weight that comes with being a first-generation child, immigrant, or bicultural adult. Many clients carry silent burdens: perfectionism shaped by survival, pressure to succeed, guilt for outgrowing old roles, or the feeling of never being fully “enough” in any world.
In therapy, we explore those inner conflicts with compassion and attunement.
We make space for the parts of you shaped by culture, family loyalty, and resilience—and help you develop an identity that feels authentic, grounded, and fully your own.
Questions to Help You Understand If This Is an Area You’re Struggling With
- Do you feel caught between your family’s expectations and your own desires?
- Do you struggle to balance cultural loyalty with personal freedom or individuality?
- Do you feel pressure to succeed as a way of honoring your family’s sacrifices?
- Do you experience guilt for wanting a different life than the one your parents imagined?
- Do you find yourself code-switching or shifting parts of your identity depending on who you're with?
- Do you feel “not enough” for your culture, yet not fully understood by the dominant culture either?
- Do you carry the emotional labor of being the translator, problem-solver, or bridge in your family?
- Do you minimize your own struggles because your family “had it harder”?
- Do you feel your childhood roles still shape your adult relationships and sense of self?
- Do you long to reclaim parts of yourself that were muted or lost in the process of assimilation?
If These Questions Resonate…
Iliria Therapy offers a culturally attuned and deeply supportive space to explore the layers of your identity—without judgment, pressure, or expectation.
Together, we work to:
- untangle the internalized roles you inherited,
- honor your cultural roots while expanding into your individuality,
- process the emotional weight of being first-generation,
- and help you build an identity that feels integrated, empowered, and wholly yours.
This is where you learn that you don’t have to choose between cultures, values, or versions of yourself.
You can hold all of them—without losing your voice, your authenticity, or your sense of home.
Why I May Be the Right Therapist for You
As a first-generation, bicultural therapist, I don’t just understand these experiences clinically—I’ve lived them. I know what it means to grow up between worlds, to carry responsibilities early, and to navigate identities that don’t always align with the expectations around you.
This lived experience allows me to sit with you not as an outsider, but as someone who understands the emotional, cultural, and intergenerational layers you’re carrying. Clients often share that they feel deeply seen in our work—not just for their struggles, but for their complexity, resilience, and story.
If you’re seeking a therapist who truly understands the nuances of being first-generation—and who can help you navigate those layers with clarity, depth, and attunement—I would be honored to support you.
Begin Your Healing
→Schedule a complimentary consultation
Self-Development, Identity, & Self-Worth
Reclaiming who you are often means untangling yourself from perfectionism, cultural expectations, family roles, or outdated narratives that no longer fit. In our work together, we slow down enough to hear your own voice again—so you can live from clarity, not conditioning.
Here are some reflective questions to help you understand if this may be an area you’re struggling with:
- Do you often feel like you’re living a version of yourself shaped more by expectations than by your authentic desires?
- Do you question who you are outside of your roles, accomplishments, or how others perceive you?
- Do you struggle to feel “enough,” even when you’re achieving or doing everything “right”?
- Do you find yourself minimizing your needs, voice, or boundaries to keep the peace or avoid conflict?
- Do you feel disconnected from your intuition, purpose, or inner compass?
- Are you carrying beliefs about yourself that were formed in childhood, culture, or past relationships—and no longer align with who you’re becoming?
- Do you feel stuck between who you’ve been and who you want to be, but unsure how to bridge the gap?
- Do you worry that if people truly knew you, they might not accept you?
- Have you outgrown old versions of yourself but haven’t yet stepped into the new one?
- Do you find yourself performing confidence on the outside while feeling insecure or uncertain on the inside?
If any of these questions speak to you, Iliria Therapy can help you explore the patterns, beliefs, and narratives shaping your identity, and guide you toward a stronger, more grounded sense of self-worth and alignment.
Trauma Recovery & Emotional Resilience
Healing from trauma isn’t just about surviving your past—it’s about reclaiming your sense of self, safety, and emotional freedom in the present. Many clients come in carrying the invisible weight of C-PTSD, emotional neglect, or lifelong roles like the fixer, the caretaker, or the one who holds everything together. These patterns often form quietly, long before we have language for what we’ve lived through.
In our work together, we make space for the parts of you that learned to stay small, stay strong, or stay silent. We reconnect you to the emotional truths that were overlooked, dismissed, or never nurtured—and help you rebuild a foundation of resilience from the inside out.
Questions to Help You Understand If This Is an Area You’re Struggling With
- Do you feel responsible for other people’s emotions, needs, or crises?
- Do you default to being the fixer, caretaker, or emotional anchor—even when you’re exhausted?
- Do you struggle to relax or feel safe in your body, even in calm environments?
- Do you find yourself emotionally shutting down, disconnecting, or avoiding intimacy when overwhelmed?
- Do you often minimize your own pain because “others had it worse”?
- Do you carry ongoing guilt, shame, or self-blame rooted in childhood dynamics or past trauma?
- Do you have a hard time identifying or expressing your own needs?
- Do you feel like you’re constantly “on guard,” even when nothing is wrong?
- Do certain people, dynamics, or environments trigger disproportionate emotional reactions?
- Do you sense that you’ve been surviving, not truly living?
If These Questions Resonate…
Iliria Therapy offers a deeply supportive and trauma-informed space where your story is honored and your nervous system is gently guided toward safety, strength, and integration. Together, we work to transform survival patterns into resilience, reconnect you with your emotional world, and help you build a life that feels grounded, empowered, and truly yours.
Relationship Dynamics & Attachment Healing
Your relationship patterns are not random—they are adaptations shaped by early experiences, emotional injuries, and the ways you learned to protect yourself long before you had the language for it.
Whether you tend toward anxious attachment, dismissive-avoidant patterns, or a disorganized push-pull dynamic, these patterns aren’t flaws. They are survival strategies—ways your nervous system learned to stay safe, seen, or connected in environments that didn’t consistently offer safety, attunement, or emotional presence.
Many clients come in feeling stuck in the same relational cycles:
- craving closeness yet fearing rejection (anxious),
- valuing independence yet feeling overwhelmed by intimacy (dismissive-avoidant), or
- wanting connection but feeling unsafe, confused, or mistrustful when it arrives (disorganized).
In therapy, we slow down the emotional patterns you’re repeating, explore the stories underneath, and help you move toward a more secure and grounded way of relating—to others and to yourself.
Questions to Help You Understand If This Is an Area You’re Struggling With
- Do you worry about being abandoned, rejected, or “too much,” and find yourself anxiously monitoring closeness?
- Do you feel relief when there’s distance, or shut down when someone gets emotionally close, even if you care about them?
- Do you bounce between craving connection and pushing people away because intimacy feels unpredictable or unsafe?
- Do you suppress your needs, voice, or boundaries to avoid conflict or keep someone close?
- Do you choose partners who are unavailable, inconsistent, or emotionally detached?
- Do you feel overwhelmed by your own emotions or by the emotions of others?
- Do your relationships feel like a cycle—intense closeness followed by withdrawal, confusion, or emotional shutdown?
- Do you struggle to trust stability, wanting it but feeling unsure how to receive it?
- Do you lose yourself in relationships, or feel unsure who you are outside of them?
- Do you fear vulnerability because it invites both longing and threat?
If These Questions Resonate…
Iliria Therapy offers a safe, relational, and deeply attuned space to understand the roots of your attachment wounds and begin healing the patterns that keep you stuck. Together, we work to:
- make sense of your early relational experiences,
- rewire the nervous system responses that shape your connections today, and
- build a more secure, steady, and reciprocal way of relating.
This is where you learn to trust closeness without losing yourself—and to hold your independence without shutting others out.
Where relationships shift from patterns of survival to places of stability, clarity, and emotional safety.
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People don’t come to me because they’re broken.
They come because something within them is ready to unfold, deepen, and transform.
A licensed psychotherapist with extensive experience supporting individuals through trauma, life transitions, and relational growth.
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Humanistic Therapy
- ACT & DBT
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method (for couples)
- Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
Thinking About Therapy? Here’s What You Should Know
Yes. I offer secure, HIPAA-compliant online therapy sessions throughout Colorado.Virtual therapy provides flexibility, privacy, and accessibility—whether you’re in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, or a rural part of the state. You can receive specialized support for men’s mental health from the comfort of your home, office, or wherever you feel most at ease.
My therapeutic style combines psychodynamic insight with present-moment awareness. We look at how past experiences—especially early relationships—shape current emotional patterns, and how to shift them with intention and care.
I draw from a range of approaches, including:
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) – working with different parts of the self shaped by trauma or protection
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) – building psychological flexibility and value-based living
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) – deepening emotional awareness and connection
- The Gottman Method – for evidence-based support in couples work
- Humanistic and relational models – to keep our work warm, respectful, and client-centered
Sessions are collaborative, trauma-informed, and tailored to your unique story. Whether we’re addressing trauma, identity, or relationships, I offer a grounded and compassionate space for healing and growth.
Beyond the couch: Therapy, life & everything in between
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