Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Mindfulness Therapy for Women in Colorado
Your body is at the dinner table and your mind is composing an email you’ll send at ten. Mindfulness in therapy is training for noticing that sooner, which is the point where you get a choice about it.
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Schedule a Therapist Match CallClinically reviewed by Ali Waldmer, MA, LMFT, LAC • Last reviewed August 24, 2026
The Method
What is Mindfulness Therapy?
Mindfulness therapy teaches a small set of attention skills and then puts them to work on whatever you came in with. The core practices are simple to describe and harder to do. You notice where your attention has gone, bring it back to the breath or the body, and watch a thought arrive without arguing with it. The traditions these come from go back around 2,500 years. The clinical programs that adapted them date from the late 1970s.
Colorado Women’s Center is designed for women, so you won’t spend your first session explaining context that should already be understood. Mindfulness therapy for women is one of the approaches you’ll find among our therapy methods. Most women use it alongside other work instead of on its own, and nothing about it requires you to sit still for an hour.
Short practices, built to survive an ordinary week.
Our Promise to You
We Guarantee Our Therapist Matching
This work goes wrong when it quietly turns into one more thing you’re failing at. You need somebody who notices that happening and changes course before you do. If the first match isn’t right, tell us and we’ll match you with another at no additional cost.
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What Mindfulness Therapy for Women Helps With
This work covers a wide range, and most of what women bring is everyday rather than acute. None of it has to reach a crisis before it’s worth bringing in. These are what women bring to it at Colorado Women’s Center.
Stress That Doesn’t Switch Off
The workday ends and your body never gets the message. Stress therapy for women using mindfulness works on the gap between a stressor being over and your system registering it as over.
Anxiety
You rehearse what might happen, over and over, until the rehearsal starts to feel like information. Anxiety therapy for women with mindfulness works on catching that while it’s still a thought.
Burnout
Burnout is more than the tiredness a weekend fixes. Burnout therapy for women uses mindfulness to find the point where you’ve already gone past your limit, which is usually well before you feel it.
Rumination and Low Mood
When your mood drops, the same explanation of you starts running on a loop. What gets trained here is stepping out of the loop, which is different from winning the argument inside it.
The Critical Voice
Self-criticism is convincing partly because it sounds exactly like your own thinking. Practice builds the difference between having a harsh thought and being taken over by one. It is a small difference that changes a lot.
Life Transitions
In a transition your attention gets pulled forward into what might go wrong and backward into what you would change. Sessions work on staying in the part you can do something about, which is today.
Reacting Before You Choose
You know how the exchange goes and you’re already three sentences into it before you notice. The training is aimed at half a second earlier, which is where a different response becomes available.
Trauma and Pacing
Mindfulness can help you feel steadier in your own body. Turning attention inward is difficult early on for some people, and a therapist who knows that adjusts the practice instead of pushing through it.
Grief
Every instinct says to get away from what grief brings up, and staying with it is the harder option. Mindfulness is one way of doing that in smaller doses, without needing anything to resolve on a schedule.
Our Approach
How Mindfulness Therapy Runs at Colorado Women’s Center
Your therapist teaches the practices small, then helps you use them where they matter.
Start With a Match Call
You begin with a Wellness Coordinator. She asks what you’re looking for, including whether you want mindfulness-based work specifically. Then she matches you on that, on which office suits you, and on therapist training and experience.
Learn Two or Three Practices
Your therapist teaches a handful of short practices instead of a curriculum. You might learn breath awareness, a body scan, and a way of noticing a thought as a thought. These take minutes, not an hour, and you try them in session before using them anywhere else.
Use Them Where It Matters
The point is the moment in your week you were hoping to handle differently. Sessions look at where you tried, what happened, and what got in the way. Adjusting a practice so it survives contact with your real week is most of the work.
Five Offices or Online
You can do this work in Boulder, Denver, Fort Collins, Broomfield, or Longmont, or over secure video from anywhere in Colorado. Sessions run seven days a week, 8am to 8pm.
Methods We Offer
- Mindfulness-Based Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Somatic Therapy
- EMDR
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Gestalt Therapy
- Family Systems Therapy
Common Questions
Mindfulness Questions Women Ask Us
Do I have to meditate?
Not in the way most people picture it. Some clients build a sitting practice and plenty never do. What your therapist is teaching is a skill you can use in thirty seconds during a meeting, in a car, or in the middle of a difficult conversation. Formal practice is one route to that skill and not a requirement.
What is MBSR?
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is the structured program Jon Kabat-Zinn developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979. Most clinical mindfulness work traces back to it. Therapists here draw on those practices inside individual therapy instead of running the eight-week group course, and you can ask about a particular therapist’s training on the Match Call.
How is this different from a meditation app?
An app teaches a practice. A therapist watches what happens when you use it, which is a different job. She can tell when a practice is making something worse, when you’re using it to avoid something, and when the difficulty you keep running into is the actual material. Apps are useful, and that is a different thing.
Is mindfulness suitable if I have been through trauma?
Usually, with care about how it is introduced. Turning attention inward can be uncomfortable early on for some people who have been through trauma. That is well known and it is not a sign something is wrong with you. A therapist who works this way will pace it and change the practice, and it is worth raising in the room.
Does mindfulness therapy work online?
Yes. Practices are taught by talking you through them, which works the same over video, and you’re using them in your own life either way. Sessions run over secure video anywhere in Colorado. Our online therapy page has the details.
How long does it take?
That’s decided between you and your therapist rather than set in advance. It depends on what you’re bringing in and on how the practices land once you start using them. Your therapist builds a plan with you early on and revisits it with you as things change.
How soon can I start?
Match Calls are usually available within 48 hours, often within 24. Most clients are with a therapist within about a week, depending on their own availability. Offices are open seven days a week, 8am to 8pm, and online sessions run the same hours. Call 720.810.2355 or use the form on this page.
Related Methods
Approaches That Sit Close to Mindfulness
This work is rarely the whole of a care plan. These two are where it most often sits inside something larger.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Works on the content of a thought where mindfulness works on your relationship to it, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is where the two formally meet.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) →
Somatic Therapy
Works with the body directly, the bracing and the held breath, which is the same attention mindfulness is training you to notice.
Somatic therapy →
