A MINDFUL THERAPY PRACTICE IN BOULDER, COLORADO
SERVING CLIENTS IN PERSON AND ONLINE
SHANE WACHLIN, MA, MFT-C
I believe deeply in human goodness—your goodness. We all carry the desire to be closer, gentler, kinder, and bolder. Yet, we often find ourselves feeling stuck, unable to show up in our relationships—or even with ourselves—in the ways we long for.
Therapy often requires change, and let’s be honest—it isn’t easy! But many people discover they’re not becoming someone else; instead, they feel more like themselves, as if they're coming home.
For me, it’s a privilege to walk alongside people through the prickly, tender parts of being human. I consider our work together a sacred relationship. If you feel even a spark of hope, don’t let it flicker out—reach out!
THERAPY SERVICES
BOULDER, COLORADO + ONLINE
INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
We all hit moments where things feel heavy — where getting through the day takes more effort than it used to, or when you're just not sure what’s going on inside but you know you don’t like it. Maybe anxiety’s been calling the shots more than you’d like. Maybe it’s a soft, quiet kind of sadness that’s hard to name. Maybe you just feel like shit.
If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to keep carry it by yourself.
I offer therapy in Boulder for people struggling with anxiety, depression, and those foggy, in-between seasons where something needs attention but it’s hard to know what. In our work, we’ll create space to slow down, make sense of what’s happening, and reconnect with the parts of you that have felt distant or overwhelmed.
FAMILY THERAPY
Families carry so much — love, history, tension, hope. When communication breaks down, it’s often not about just one conversation — it’s about years of patterns, unspoken grief, and the longing to feel close again.
I offer family therapy in Boulder for adult children and their families navigating the messy, meaningful work of reconnection. Maybe there’s been distance for years. Maybe a parent is aging, a grandchild has arrived, or you're realizing things can’t stay the way they are.
Using Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), I help families understand each other more clearly and begin to rebuild trust — even after years of silence or strain. Sometimes the most healing thing we can do is finally talk about what hasn’t been said.
COUPLES THERAPY
Every relationship has its seasons — times of closeness, and times when something feels off. Maybe communication is strained, or you’re walking on eggshells more than you’d like. You’re trying, but it feels like you’re missing each other.
I offer couples therapy in Boulder that’s grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — a leading, evidence-based approach, that helps partners understand the emotional signals beneath conflict and disconnection. Together, we’ll identify the patterns fueling the conflict and begin to shape something more honest, connected, and steady.
Whether you're in crisis or just feeling distant, couples counseling can offer the space and support to come back to each other.
TRAUMA-INFORMED THERAPY
Not all trauma comes from a single moment. Sometimes it’s the slow, quiet kind — growing up without enough emotional safety, feeling like you had to hold everything together, or learning to stay small to survive.
I offer trauma therapy in Boulder for people who’ve learned to cope by pushing through — often high-functioning on the outside, but worn down underneath. Using EMDR, mindfulness, and somatic-based approaches, we’ll work gently and at your pace to help release what’s been held in for too long.
You don’t have to keep bracing for impact. You don’t have to carry this alone.
“LIFE SHRINKS OR EXPANDS IN PROPORTION TO ONE’S COURAGE.”
–ANAIS NIN
OR AS I LIKE TO SAY, “LIFE EXPANDS AND CONTRACTS TO THE AMOUNT OF RISK YOU’RE WILLING TO TAKE.”
THERAPY REQUIRES RISK - MAKING THE FIRST CALL, STEPPING INTO THE FIRST APPOINTMENT, AGREEING WITH YOUR PARTNER THAT THINGS AREN’T WORKING AND GOING TOGETHER. THESE ARE ALL NORMAL, UNDERSTANDABLE MOMENTS WE MAY FEEL TREPIDATIOUS ABOUT. VULNERABILITY AND CHANGE REQUIRE RISK, AND MY HOPE FOR YOU IS THAT YOU WILL TAKE THE RISK FOR THE HOPE AND BELIEF IN SOMETHING BETTER.
FAQs
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung
We all co-create our own suffering. A truly amazing dimension of therapy is to reduce unnecessary suffering and to reveal and re-write rigid and harmful scripts about ourselves, others, and the world.
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Often people feel judged or ashamed when coming to therapy, believing the therapist sees all the edges they’ve attempted to hide. I’m here to support you, reflect, encourage, muse, suggest, nudge, but not make or force you to do anything. I honor your autonomy, wisdom, and process.
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The bill always comes due … It may come after your tendency to avoid kept you from checking your bank account and now you’re overdrawn, or perhaps you’ve avoided conflict with with your spouse and now assets are being divided. Or perhaps an addiction has cost you your job. Lastly, and one I personally reflect on often, is you are 75 and feel the weight of the life you long for but has passed you by.
That’s heavy. I know. And it’s why I believe the cost of therapy is light when you truly examine the cost of not “doing the work.”