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Psychologist

psychologist resilience training

Margit is compassionate and active; educational and creative; scientific and intuitive. Her primary modality is individual therapy with adults. She welcomes diversity and provides culturally attuned, LGBTQ affirming, strength-focused therapy. Margit specializes in healing trauma, internalized aggression and subjugation, grief, embodied stress, anger, anxiety, depression/bipolar disorder, suicidality, anxiety, relationship issues, parenting and aging.

Margit empowers her clients to Move from Reactivity to Resilience. She teaches people how to use self-directed neuroplasticity to move from reactivity in the primitive brain stem to grounded presence and action based in the brain’s frontal lobes.

Many people think of therapy as an in-depth analysis of childhood. While insight and catharsis about the past can be valuable, they do not always lead to the lasting change we seek. The most important benefit of revisiting the past is to develop self-compassion by placing our suffering into context. For example, if we have a highly critical inner voice, it is helpful to understand that this comes from harmful experiences from oppressive societal systems (racism, sexism, weight stigma, classism, ageism, homo/transphobia, etc.) as well as our childhood traumas. When we see this more clearly, we can hold ourselves with greater kindness, thus supporting the practice of Gentle Awareness which is essential for healing.

Meaningful change requires shifting old patterns of emotion, habits of mind, and bodily reactions. In and of itself, insight about the origin of these dysfunctional patterns doesn’t create the change we are seeking. Such change comes from behaviorally, cognitively and emotionally Stretching in New Directions, which in turn impacts the wiring of our brains and what our inner pharmacist doles out. Fighting with our old patterns of thinking and feeling only continues to strengthen the dysfunctional brain wiring. Instead, we add-in new healthy patterns / neural networks and repeat them until they become new habits. As we cultivate healthy ways of thinking, feeling and behaving, we change our brains.

Margit teaches her clients the science of why we get stuck. This knowledge enriches their Gentle Awareness and creates space around their dysfunctional patterns, offering the opportunity to make new choices. Margit empowers clients by sharing strategies for Harnessing the Brain’s Neuroplasticity and inner pharmacy in order to experience and explore new options. To support their new resiliency habits, she helps clients develop Realistic Daily Practices essential for brain change.

Margit Henderson, PhD
Margit’s clinical style is active and engaging. She collaborates with her clients to identify their goals and decide which combination of the above methods is the best fit for their needs. She supports clients in harnessing their mind-body’s remarkable capacity for healing via self-directed neuroplasticity.

Margit’s Approach

Margit incorporates a broad range of effective therapeutic approaches to strengthen her clients’ resiliency resources.

To promote gentle awareness, constructive thinking, and skillful action, she draws from mindfulness-based therapies, including:

To decrease emotional reactivity, she incorporates body-focused methods such as:

To integrate dissociated neural networks, she draws from:

Schedule

Margit is in the clinical office on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10AM and 6PM. She returns phone calls within her next business day and returns clinical emails and voicemail messages on those days.

Rates / Payment

$230 per 50-minute session. Checks or cash are preferred for payment. Credit card can be used via this authorization form.

Cancelation Policy

If you do not show up for your scheduled therapy appointment, or you have not provided at least 24-hours advanced notice for a cancelation, you will be charged your regular fee.

Insurance / Reduced Fee

Direct payment from insurance companies is not accepted. However, if your insurance coverage includes out-of-network benefits, you may be able to receive partial reimbursement from your insurance company for what you have paid. Let Margit know if you need a statement to submit for reimbursement from your insurance or health savings account. Reduced-fee services are available. Though there is usually a waitlist for these spots, feel free to let Margit know if you need fee assistance.

Helpful Forms

If you’re a new client, please complete the following forms and bring them to your first therapy session.

To help me better understand the issues you’re seeking help for, here are some additional assessments I might ask you to complete:

If you would like Margit to coordinate care with another provider (for example, your psychiatrist, primary care physician, etc.), complete this form to authorize release of psychotherapy information:

Checks and cash are the preferred payment method. But if you’d rather pay by credit, complete this authorization form:

If you would like to utilize Teletherapy as part of your treatment, complete this form to consent to Teletherapy services:

I sometimes refer to this feelings wheel to help us better understand your experience:

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Appointment Request

Please note, Margit’s clinical practice is often full, but feel free to reach out to check.
Margit is in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 10AM and 6PM. To schedule an appointment or to obtain additional information about Margit or her practice, please fill out the form below or give her a call at 303-257-2427.

Once you have scheduled an appointment, please complete the intake forms and bring them to your first appointment.

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