Services
Offering online and in-person sessions for Couples and Individuals
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Alexa Torkelson, MA, MFTC
Couples
What to expect: Clear expectations when it comes to how I will hold the two of you and myself accountable in your therapeutic process for cultivating change. Together, we will navigate your main concern, finding more clarity and a better understanding of what your short-term and long-term goals are.
I work with a lot of couples who are undergoing significant life transitions, such as, starting a family, loss of a loved one, navigating a new diagnosis, infidelity, allocation, or a major career shift. I am here to help guide you both through the conversations that have been challenging to do on your own.
The first few sessions will focus on assessment and gathering information on your background. Further, we will explore "what has been lost in your daily interactions" and "gain honest insights" as to what has created roadblocks in your ability to connect. The hope is these sessions get at the heart of the problem, while bringing in interventions for repair, maintenance, and breakthroughs.
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Rates:
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150.00 / 60 minute sessions
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175.00 / 90 minute sessions
Individuals
What to expect: If you are an individual looking for support during a time where life is throwing curveballs and testing your ability to succeed. Then I am here to meet you in this place that feels cloudy and unclear of what path you should take next. I like to think of my role as a guide that amplifies what you are already doing well and then help you navigate how to combine all your skill sets into an anchored way of being. It takes a lot of patience and consistency to set out what you are meant to do and achieve the goal that has been sitting in your back pocket. The hope is you can find better alignment in what matches your self-worth and authentic traits, so you are ready to take inspired action toward your larger dream.
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Rate:
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125.00 / 60 minute session
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150.00 / 90 minute session
My Approach
I am trained in systemically oriented couple and family relations therapy from Regis University Colorado. What I value most in this work is being able to track patterns within relational experiences that brings more clarity for how to help clients move out of stuck positions. I have learned it is okay to live out personal goals while having larger relationship dreams together. I believe we have to slow down in some chapters of life to re-understand what is still serving the relationship and what no longer is. In these trial times we also have to re-prioritize what is most important (for ourself and loved one). This helps us re-align values, better support one another in short-term goals and honor sacrifices that may need to be made along the way to sustain a more secure, vitalizing relationship.
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Theoretical lenses I lean on are Satir's transformational systemic framework, somatic and emotionally focused exercises.
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My favorite quote by Virginia Satir:
"Communication is to relationships what breath is to life."