Prelude to Ascent Counseling is the starting point to move you towards reaching your highest state of existence. At Prelude you will have a counseling experience that is an opportunity to discover the skills and values necessary to successfully carry out your life's purpose. Prelude offers a safe environment to express and address concerns, fears, desires, hopes, and goals. By offering a model of what a healthy relationship looks like, the counseling experience creates a foundational platform for coping with issues and eliminating mental, emotional, and social barriers for all ages. Counseling not only helps to establish and maintain balance within the mind, body, and spirit, but it also creates a space for your potential to become a reality. Self awareness, acceptance, actualization, and perseverance are the keys to finding internal peace. Let the journey to self discovery begin! Tracilyn Blackwell graduated from Colorado Christian University in 2011 with a degree in Biblical Studies. In order to master the art of communication and compassion, she continued her education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and graduated with a M.S. Ms. Blackwell also has 6 years of experience working with youth on childhood development and social interaction. Her passion is helping people identify their values, beliefs, desires, and goals. She utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). By using this method she helps her clients’ to process events and experiences in light of their belief systems, this helps to bring about healthy actions and consequences. She believes that the answer is always within, if you know where to look! She has a gift for helping her clients process the answers that come to the surface.
