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Psychologist

psychologist resilience trainingDr. Margit Henderson is compassionate and active; educational and creative; scientific and intuitive. Her specialty areas are stress management, trauma, grief, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship issues, parenting and aging well; and her primary modality is individual therapy with adults.

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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 effective functioning 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 very 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 hurtful experiences from our childhoods. 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.

Margit teaches clients to bring Gentle Awareness to observe their thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations and behaviors. Though we cannot observe the brain directly, we can learn to recognize when we are reactive versus when we are being resilient by noticing our bodily sensations. The brain oversees a natural inner pharmacy that sends chemicals out into our system that impact how we think and feel. Our body is regularly sending us signals, we just need to tune in so that we benefit from this natural feedback loop.

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 pharamacist 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 our dominant mode of operation.

psychologist resilience trainingCutting-edge research is illuminating the power of the brain’s neuroplasticity. Science once taught that the brain was malleable only during childhood and then our brain’s development was fixed. Recent brain imaging research has dismissed these ideas. We now know that as we stretch ourselves mentally, emotionally and behaviorally, our neuron’s dendrites stretch with us, creating new neural networks in our brains. With repetition, new networks expand and become our 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
Dr. Margit Henderson’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

$210 per 50-minute session. Cash or check accepted for payment. No credit cards.

Cancellation 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. Reduced fee services are available on a limited basis; however, there is usually a wait-list for these spots.

Helpful Forms

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

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:

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

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Appointment Request

Please Note: Margit’s clinical practice is closed to new clients.

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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