Meet Leah

Welcome to Clearwater Counseling and Wellness! I am Leah Clearwater, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado. I obtained a Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Capella University and have dedicated my career to enhancing mental health support and awareness through various programs and community initiatives. Prior to starting my private practice in 2021, I worked in Community Mental Health in rural and mountain areas.  For the past 8 years, I have been dedicated to helping clients overcome various challenges related to trauma, grief, codependency, caregiver stress, depression, suicidality and anxiety. Together, we can create a safe and empowering environment for growth and healing. Let's embark on this journey towards positive change together!

 

Currently I see clients from all over Colorado via telehealth with the use of a HIPAA Compliant Zoom platform and with therapists seeking EMDR support across the country.  I am an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist, helping clients address a variety of traumatic experiences, including complex childhood trauma, sexual trauma, prolonged grief, and dissociative symptoms.  I am a Certified CAMS Therapist, helping clients address, explore and reduce self-harming behaviors and suicidal thoughts.  I am a Certified Grief Educator, helping clients cope with grief and move towards healing from a variety of losses.  I am also an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, working with other licensed professionals seeking support, consultation and/or certification in EMDR.   In addition to my work in mental health, I have been a legal Guardian and Conservator for a family member for over 25 years and have extensive experience in caregiving and navigating the medical, financial and legal requirements of Conservatorships and Guardianships, as well as the impact of caregiver stress.

 

Outside of my work and passion as a therapist, I enjoy reading, landscape photography, camping, music, concerts, and being in nature as much as possible. 

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For Clients:

Adults I work with often find they are experts in taking care of everyone around them but feel uncertain how to take care of themselves. They may be "people pleasers" and know, in great detail, what others may need and how to fix things, but struggle to know what they themselves need, how they feel or how to address their own problems.  They may have had traumatic or adverse experiences that impact the way they react and cope in many situations. This often leads to feelings of anger, resentment, exhaustion and neglect of their own needs, with an increase in anxiety, depression, self-harming thoughts or grief taking over.

 

If this sounds familiar to you and you are finding yourself more depleted, unsupported and realizing its time for a change, but you're not sure where to begin, I can help support you in building healthy boundaries, identifying coping skills, healing trauma and improving relationships with those in your life, while finding the balance of your own personal well-being.

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Therapy offers the opportunity for some much-needed focus on you; a place to be heard, understood and supported. Therapy also offers a place where we have to exercise our emotional muscles, similar to working out at a gym, therapy is not always easy or fun, it does require work and commitment.  In the end if we truly invest in that time, we begin to see results, find our strength, and experience real transformation and change.

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For Therapists:

Therapists I work with in Consultation have completed Basic EMDR Training through an EMDRIA approved program seeking EMDR Certification or EMDRIA Approved Consultant status and/or have a basic need for support with EMDR with their clients.  I have EMDR experience in working with adults who experience trauma, complex trauma, sexual trauma, dissociation and grief.  I provide consultation in EMDR Basic Trainings with extensive advanced training experience, and I can also provide support with the review of EMDR protocols, target sequencing, dissociation assessment, interweaves, floatbacks and more.  For CIT's I offer support and consultation in your role as a consultant, as well as ongoing support in your use of EMDR with your clients to help you move towards Approved Consultant status. 

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I look forward to meeting you!

 

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