Mindful Springs Counseling

04/02/2026

🧩 Today is World Autism Awareness Day, and we're celebrating the autistic folks in our community—clients, colleagues, friends, and family.

Autism isn't something to be fixed or cured. It's a different way of being in the world, with unique gifts, strengths, and ways of experiencing life. Autistic people often bring creative problem-solving, deep focus, pattern recognition, and rich sensory awareness to everything they do.

At Mindful Springs, we're committed to meeting autistic clients exactly where they are. That means trauma-informed, non-pathologizing care that honors neurodiversity and centers your whole self—not just "symptoms" to manage. We listen without trying to change your essential nature. We create space for different sensory needs, communication styles, and ways of relating.

If you're autistic and exploring therapy, we see you. Your autism is part of what makes you *you*, and that's worth celebrating.

03/31/2026

Transgender Day of Visibility reminds us:
Trans people's existence is resistance. Trans joy is revolution. 🏳️‍⚧️

But visibility alone isn't enough. You deserve support—from your community, your loved ones, and yes, your therapist.

At Mindful Springs, we're committed to creating affirming mental health care for trans and non-binary folks. Our entire team—including our trans clinicians and LGBTQ+ staff—are trained in trauma-informed, non-pathologizing approaches that center your whole self.

We believe therapy should affirm who you are, not question it. Here's what that means in practice:

✨ Clinicians trained in gender-affirming care
✨ A decolonizing framework that rejects harmful diagnostic labels
✨ Embodiment-centered therapy that honors your lived experience
✨ Trans and non-binary clinicians on staff—people who've walked this path themselves
✨ We work with many insurance plans and offer flexible scheduling

Whether you're navigating transition, family dynamics, workplace challenges, or processing past trauma, you deserve a therapist who gets it.

📍 Locations in Colorado Springs, Seattle, and virtual care available across CO, WA, IL, and MD.

Ready to find a therapist who sees you fully?
Schedule a free consultation: https://calendly.com/admin-mindfulsprings/free-consultation
Questions? Call 833.379.5206

You are seen. You are valued. You belong. 🏳️‍⚧️

03/31/2026

Today is World Bipolar Day 💙 We're honoring everyone navigating bipolar experiences—your resilience, your complexity, your full humanity. Bipolar disorder is real, treatable, and you're not alone.

Healing looks different for everyone—and that's exactly how it should be. If you're seeking support or ready to explore your path forward, we're here. 🤝

03/26/2026

NOW ACCEPTING NEW CLIENTS!

Meet Beckett (he/him)!
Beckett provides a nonjudgmental space for clients to explore values, identity, and boundaries, process emotions, recognize behavioral patterns, and develop new ways to communicate and express themselves.

Call our office @ 833.379.5206 to schedule both in-person and virtual appointments!

Schedule a call with our awesome intake team here - https://calendly.com/admin-mindfulsprings/free-consultation

03/25/2026

Don't forget to reserve your spot!

03/19/2026

Spring isn't just a season—it's a permission slip.

Permission to release what no longer serves you, to tend to the parts of yourself that need care, and to remember that healing isn't linear. Everything can begin again, including you.

This season, prioritize yourself with the same devotion you give to everything else.

03/18/2026

Deep Healing as Radical Resistance

In a world built on extraction, dehumanization, and control, healing is an act of rebellion.

When you do the deep work of processing trauma—whether it's inherited from generations, carried in your body, or embedded in the systems you navigate daily—you're refusing the narrative that says your pain is just something to survive. You're rejecting the idea that you should simply keep moving, keep producing, keep quiet about what hurts.
Decolonization is the same. It's the practice of reclaiming your mind, your body, your relationships, and your sense of self from frameworks designed to diminish you. It's examining the ways colonization—cultural, psychological, spiritual—has shaped how you think about yourself, what you believe you deserve, and what you think is possible. And then it's choosing differently.
These aren't passive acts. They're radical.
When you heal, you stop perpetuating harm in the ways it was done to you. You interrupt cycles. You model for others that another way exists.
When you decolonize your thinking, you question systems that ask you to choose between your culture and your safety, your authenticity and your belonging, your needs and your worth. You refuse to accept the false choices you've been given.
Together, deep healing and decolonization are acts of reclamation. They're how we resist erasure. They're how we insist on our humanity—not as a future promise, but as a present reality.

They're how we build freedom from the inside out.

03/17/2026

This Women's History Month, let's honor the remarkable women who'll never make history books but built everything that matters—families, communities, and the people we are today.

Think of the woman who comes to mind for you. She deserves to be celebrated.

For the Women Who Came Before Us Sara Mathew, MSC Intern   Some of the most important women in history will never make it into the books. They won’t have monuments or months dedicated to them. But they built things anyway — families, homes, communities, and people. They showed up when showing u...

03/16/2026

Back by popular demand - Embodied Self-Compassion Yoga Group!

4 weeks just isn't long enough so this group will be 6 weeks of yoga, meditation, & journaling.

This group is targeted towards those who identify as female and have the desire to bring new tools of breathing, movement, and awareness into their lives.

Register using the QR code on the flyer or by calling the office at 719.357.8957

03/13/2026

Here's what we believe:

Your ADHD isn't broken.
Your queerness isn't wrong.
Your cultural identity is a strength, not a symptom.
You are not defined by your circumstances.

We practice therapy that depathologizes difference, centers your whole self, and questions the systems that told you something was wrong with you.

That's the work we do.

03/12/2026

Brainspotting Intensives: Go Deeper, Heal Faster

You already know talk therapy isn't enough — so let's talk about what can be added to make therapy "more".

Standard 60-minute sessions rarely give your nervous system enough time to unwind from daily life and move into the deep processing where real healing happens. By the time you settle in, the hour is over.

Brainspotting intensives change that. Extended sessions give you the uninterrupted time and space you actually need — to go deep, stay there, and let resolution fully unfold. No restarting. No picking up mid-process a week later. Just sustained, expansive healing.

For many clients, intensives aren't just more effective — they're more efficient. You move through what might take months in a fraction of the time, because your process gets to fully open rather than repeatedly open and close.

This is deeper work. It's designed for people ready for it.

03/12/2026

What do YOU do when you are feeling down?