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COUNSELING PHILOSOPHY

Drawing from an eclectic mix of therapeutic techniques, we are committed to creating a unique and personalized psychotherapy experience for each of our clients based on your individual needs, goals and strengths. Each of your lives and histories, genetic and cultural inheritances, physical, emotional and spiritual experiences are unique and distinctive. To create an environment where health and healing can take place it is critical that we draw from a variety of theories and techniques that fit your specific life and circumstances, creating a holistic therapeutic experience exclusively for your wellbeing.

Here is a partial list of theories, techniques and therapies we draw from:

  • Attachment
  • Art
  • Cognitive-Behavioral
  • Contemplative
  • Developmental
  • Ecological
  • Existential
  • Experiential
  • Feminist
  • Filial
  • Gestalt
  • Humanistic
  • Integral
  • Jungian
  • Multicultural
  • Play
  • Psychodrama
  • Psychodynamic
  • Solution-Focused
  • Systems
  • Transpersonal

Psychotherapist Amy Hartman, MA

Professionally

I received my MA in Counseling Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder. I received my BA, cum laude, in English and Women's Studies from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Presently and over the past ten years no matter where my work has taken place - Nederland and the surrounding mountains, Denver, Boulder, Mexico - my focus is on the health and healing of community.

To address the complex needs of these different communities I use my counseling and mediation skills on two levels: individual community members and the system as a whole. On an individual level I counsel children, teens, adults, elders, singles, couples and families. On a systemic level I mediate for and between for-profit and non-profit businesses, boards, employees and employers, citizen groups, foundations, government programs, schools, and small business owners.

What I find fascinating and challenging about community work is that there is never one, simple, concise answer about how health and healing occurs. This means that over the past ten years I have worked closely with people facing a broad range of issues and diagnoses:

  • Addiction
  • Aging
  • Anger
  • Anxiety
  • Asperger's Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
  • Bipolar Disorders
  • Body Awareness
  • Career/Job
  • Cutting
  • Delusional Disorders
  • Depression
  • Death and Dying
  • Dissociative Disorders
  • Divorce/Separation
  • Domestic Violence
  • Eating Disorders
  • Foster Care
  • Gender Identity
  • Grief
  • Homelessness
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Life Skills
  • Money
  • Parenting
  • Perpetrators of Crimes
  • Phobias
  • Physical, Sexual, Verbal and Emotional Abuse
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Relationships
  • Schizophrenia
  • Sex
  • Sleep Disorders
  • Social Skills
  • Stress
  • Terminal Illnesses
  • Time Management
  • Transitions
  • Trauma
  • Victims of Crime

Personally

Although I loved working in Denver, Boulder and Mexico, I missed putting roots down in my own community. So in 2008 I decided open Peak to Peak Counseling and put my time and energy into serving people in Nederland and the surrounding mountain communities!

I've been married to Andy Hartman, a middle school math teacher, since 1998. Out exploring one weekend in 2001 we found our house in Gilpin County and made it our home. We have two rescue cats that love our wood-burning stove in the winter (no dogs in the mountains is a sacrilege, I know!).

For fun I love to travel, take pictures, watch movies, read books, hike and play the piano. You can also find me catching a CU football game in Boulder, or enjoying the latest play in Denver. I serve on two local non-profit boards in our mountain community: Nederland Area Seniors, Inc. and Teens, Inc. Additionally I volunteer with Family Hospice that serves not only the greater Boulder area but also residents of Nederland, Gilpin County, and the surrounding mountain communities.

My focus has been and continues to be dictated by the needs of the people in front of me and the community surrounding us. Having experienced genuine healing and growth with hundreds of clients I am confident we can work together to find the change you seek in your life.