Golden Spiral Counseling,pllc

Who I am.

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Hello! My name is Anna Chavez-Sandoval, my pronouns are she/her and I am the owner of Golden Spiral Counseling. I am a multicultural licensed professional counselor (LPC) and licensed addictions counselor (LAC). My ancestors come from various lands including Iberia and Mesoamerica. My people have found their calling as healers, teachers, musicians and carpenters. I am a fifth generation Coloradan; I grew up and continue to live in the San Luis Valley, located in Southern Colorado.

 

I received my Bachelors degree in Psychology and my Masters degree in Clinical Mental Health. With free time I can be found amongst family, within nature, engaged in a creative activity or just taking in the peace of rural Colorado life. I love to hike, read, write and caretake for my many plants. Aside from being a therapist, I am a mother, a wife and survivor of my own adverse experiences.

 

I facilitated individual and group psychotherapy at a local community mental health center for over seven years as an outpatient clinician.

In 2021 I left CMH and served as a mental health provider for an online K-12 school, teaching in the virtual classroom as well as supporting individual students and their families.

 

Through all these roles, I have worn a trauma informed lens. This perspective has only flourished as I've learn new, somatic focused interventions and applied them in my practice today. 

 

Throughout the years, I learned various methods for healing they psyche. I apply these practices to my own life, as well as continue to teach them in the therapeutic setting. My passion for knowledge and innate curiosity lends to how I work both as a counselor, and a person. 

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Our brains have a protective way of choosing survival over safety, my mission is to assist you in the excavation of who you truly are, underneath the survival skills, wounds and generationally passed down adaptations. 

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My therapeutic process is one that both validates the struggles while harnessing strengths and resilience. By pulling interventions together we co-create a new path which allows space for change to occur. I weave together compassion, perspective and coping skills so clients feel safe, heard and empowered. I do this through a secure online platform as I apply holistic complimentary interventions, accessible from the comfort of your home or any safe space within your natural environment.

 

Using trauma informed practices like mindfulness, meditation, art, parts work, somatic interventions, breathe work and visualization, I aim to help clients become attuned to their energy in a way that both nurtures and empowers, allowing healing to take place while simultaneously promoting the person to thrive in their life. 

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You are the expert in your life and I am simply here to help guide your journey as you learn to drop into the calm, wise intuitive spaces where you can untangle and tune in, this is the avenue to manifesting a life of meaning, connection and intention, one step at a time.

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