we’re warm ground open sky.
We are a small therapy practice offering counseling services to the Boulder/Longmont/Denver area. We joined forces to create Warm Ground Open Sky as an extension of our commitment to provide quality therapy that aligns with our values of compassion… We met through our love of learning in a Master’s program in Contemplative Psychotherapy & Buddhist Psychology at Naropa University. While we are partners in life and in business, we offer our own individual psychotherapy services. You have the option of choosing which one of us you work with!
See more about us in our pages for more information about how each of us work, our specialties, passions, and a bit about our humanness too!
“We still believe in love’s promise.”
What’s in the name?
Warm ground is the rootedness we find when we go inward; when we come home to ourselves. It is the Earth pregnant with possibility and welcoming to the holding that is needed when we release and tend to what our pain holds. It is here that we will meet to begin writing love letters to our wounds.
Open sky is a metaphor for the true nature of the mind. It is beyond the obscurations of beliefs, fixations, and places where we may be stuck or unprocessed. The open sky may engender a sense of curiosity and lightness. The hope is to see beyond the rigid concepts of one’s self and the world to see what is really there.
Counseling as a foundation for love and life.
As well as being business partners, we are also spouses and life partners. Our relationship began during our counseling training program, where we embarked on a deep exploration and study of our individual and interpersonal processes. We established our communication and connection based on the frameworks offered to us through Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology. This meant learning to recognize our bodily, emotional, and cognitive experiences. We then explored how to bring our personal experience into relationship by putting it into language that the other could understand. This also meant practicing leaning into the discomforts and suffering inherent in human experience, as a practice of compassion and attunement with one another. Our deep practice of being with one another has provided us both with a sense of secure attachment that we feel that we can offer to our clients. We hope this warm ground is felt by you as our client so that you may feel secure and safe in engaging with openness and curiosity around your own experience.