About Colorado Couples Clinic
OUR MISSION
The mission of Colorado Couples Clinic is to provide counseling and educational services that meet the relational, neurobiological, and personal growth needs of a diverse population. Colorado Couples Clinic is rooted in the science of intimate relationships and, at its foundation, holds an attachment-oriented, systems-based, trauma-informed, sex positive, and gender-responsive care perspective dedicated to cultivating ever-evolving skills from the inside out.
“The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller the doubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.” ~ C.C. Chang
Our brains possess the remarkable ability to reorganize neural pathways, create new connections and, in some cases, even create new neurons throughout our entire lifetime. Through neuro-scientific research, looking at how our brains change based on our interactions with one another, we have evidence to support the idea that our relationships are the most important contributor to the health of our entire nervous system — which, of course, impacts every other system in our bodies.
Colorado Couples Clinic supports strengthening our interpersonal neurobiology. We call it Strength Training for the Heart. We bring together the scientific study of the mind and nervous system with empirically supported data in relational health to improve tolerance to emotional upsets; reshape neural pathways for more rewarding intimacy; strengthen the brain to become more flexible, resilient, and joyful; and deepen the inner experiences of connection, peacefulness, and compassion.
Clinicians
Angie Tsiatsos Phillips, ma, lpc, ncc, acs, cmt
Most of my life has been dedicated to exploring how relationships embolden, enliven, exhaust, and enlighten our experience of life. My personal and professional focus is teaching others how we can inhabit our bodies in ways that express our inner worlds effectively and authentically. When we learn to embody congruence in this way, we honor our unique expression of love and cultivate the capacity to connect more fully with others.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor and Somatic Psychotherapist with a passion for helping my clients cultivate the relationships that we all innately desire. I work with individuals, couples, and groups. As a Somatic Practitioner, Dance Instructor, Massage Therapist and Personal Trainer, I've had more than two decades of experience in grounding my therapeutic approach in the body and support my clients in tapping into their own unique and innate wisdom. I help clients identify internal "signals" that habitually get them off track, short-circuit ineffective relational habits, and strengthen internal states that are crucial for developing thriving intimate relationships. Just as it takes structure, consistent practice with intensity, focus, awareness, and often, coaching or support to change our physical bodies, it takes a similar practice to retrain and strengthen our nervous systems. Hence “Strength Training for the Heart.”
I was previously the Clinical Director of the Center for Relational and Family Wellness at Noeticus Counseling Center and Training Institute where I was instrumental in developing the center, facilitating quarterly relationship classes, providing trainings for mental health professionals, and working as an Approved Clinical Supervisor. I am an instructor and speaker, and provide advanced trainings for mental health professionals. I have the highest training in The PEX (Pragmatic/Experiential) Method of Improving Relationships, am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Gottman Couples Therapy, among many other models.
I am dedicated to supporting people in their exploration and embodiment of masculine and feminine polarities and helping deepen the transformative practices of intimacy and sexuality from a sex positive framework. I also offer support for new mothers and fathers throughout pregnancy, birth, and the transformative practice of parenting. I offer guidance and structure to support parents in co-parenting relationships as well as parents navigating the delicate territory of blending families.
I am a certified Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) practitioner and am partnered with Skylight Psychedelics to provide KAP to clients who have been assessed as being good candidates for KAP through the physicians at Skylight. If you would like to discuss the appropriateness of KAP for your individual and/or couple goals in counseling, I am happy to discuss these options with you.
Life has a tendency to bring us to our knees, and when we are able to yield to its messages, listen to a deeper wisdom, and rebuild from the broken places, we cultivate the capacity for becoming the most authentic and whole versions of ourselves. My own brokenness became the foundation for my personal motivation to change deep, neural patterning in my relational life. And feeling those shifts at a “cellular level” inspired my growing passion to understand and serve the relational needs of others — to learn and teach the emotional habits that are necessary for authentic, trusting, fulfilling relationships. I look forward to supporting you in strengthening your heart for Love.
Education
Naropa University
MA Somatic Counseling Psychology 2006
Eastern Oregon University
BA Theater 1995
Colorado School of Healing Arts
Certification in Massage Therapy 1998
Professional memberships & Affiliations
American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT); Professional Member (2012-Present)
American Counseling Association (ACA); Professional Member (2011-Present)
United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP); Professional Member (2005-Present)
Colorado Counseling Association (CCA); Professional Member (2014-Present)
Skylight Psychedelics; Partner (2022)
REVIEWS
“ We sought help from multiple very well-intentioned therapists over a number of years who all tried to help us practice different methodologies of relating to one another. If we just learned how to approach and respond differently with one another, we could repair years of relational difficulties. It didn’t work. Then we found you.
You took a different approach. Instead of starting with the mechanics of talking, you started with fundamental relational belief systems (Do I blame? Do I have all the information? Are they really wrong or just different?) and somatic emotions (What is my body feeling? What emotion describes that bodily experience? What does that tell me and my spouse about the interaction?). And then you helped us connect those feelings and emotions to childhood experiences/trauma where they originated, diffusing the blame and focus on the other person by learning that we weren’t the source of each other’s issues, only the trigger for issues that existed long before we met each other.
Now we’re learning to give grace because we know the other person isn’t a threat, I’ve just put them in that same threat role that existed long before I met them. Before, we focused on how the other person regularly did things that made our relationship less and less viable. Now we’re learning to focus on our own personal growth and understanding of our childhood traumas as the path to a great relationship with each other. If I can embrace and co-parent that wounded child in me, I will have better tools and personal regulation to meet my spouse as the gift that they are to me.
I’m not sure where our relationship would be without your input over the last two years. But I can say that we are profoundly grateful we found you and feel working with you has marked a turning point in our relationship. When we read the {AND} game card that asked, “Who has played the biggest role in your relationship that isn’t one of us?”, it was an easy answer for both of us – you.
We are so grateful for the work you are doing with your own shit, that enables you to help us with ours. We are grateful for your attitude of grace, kindness, and love, and your unwavering commitment to authentic, transparent, and secure-functioning relationships. You are a regular example to us of how to lean in and be with and “for” each other as committed spouses. We are grateful that you have done the hard work to have the courage to live joyfully and with an intention to make an impact in the world around you.
Thank you most of all for being you. Just you. “
- An Anonymous Couple
Get in touch
Colorado Couples Clinic understands that finding the right therapist to support your most personal, intimate work is a choice not to be taken lightly. That’s why a free phone consultation is available so that your needs are understood and we can explore whether or not this is the right fit for your therapeutic goals.